Sergei Kharitonov
Sergei Kharitonov trained in Kirieevsk, Russia, under coach Mikhail Illoukhine (). Ilyukhin chose Kirieevsk as their training base due to a large number of heavyweight MMA fighters available there. According to him, key elements of Sergei's success are his willpower and unpredictability in the ring. As of September 2007 he recently began training with the Golden Glory fight team in the Netherlands.