In the second MMA Diaries entry in Moscow, Karim Zidan has lunch with Konstantin Glukhov, the fighter who escaped a sect just over a year ago, and attends a fan meet-and-greet that turned into an arm-wrestling competition.
Day 2 - Entry 1 (How to escape a sect and the crazy coach who heads it)
Long before my scheduled trip to Moscow, I wrote about notable heavyweight Konstantin Gluhov, who escaped a sect last year that had "brainwashed" him and controlled his entire income and livelihood for a 12-year period. It was a difficult story to wrap one's head around, and the details were not made clear in the few articles written about it.