Nikolai Kiosse, who has sparred with both Andre Fili and Vyacheslav Svishchev, says Svishchev's body shots are in a different class. Kiosse described taking a hard liver shot from Fili during their first sparring session but said Svishchev's shots were incomparably worse. According to Kiosse, Svishchev targets the liver from the opening bell and is so confident in landing there that he never hesitates to engage in exchanges.
Nikolai Kiosse, a sparring partner with firsthand experience alongside both Andre Fili and Vyacheslav Svishchev, has offered a striking assessment of the two fighters' body-shot power — and according to Kiosse, there is no comparison.
Speaking publicly, Kiosse recalled absorbing a hard liver shot from Fili during their first session together, describing it as a genuine introduction to the American's punching power. But when asked to compare that experience to sparring with Svishchev, Kiosse was emphatic: the Russian's body shots exist in an entirely different category.
Kiosse explained that Svishchev goes to the liver from the very first exchange of a round, and does so with such conviction that he never second-guesses engaging at close range. That willingness to wade into exchanges, Kiosse suggested, stems directly from Svishchev's confidence that his body attack will eventually break his opponent down.
The account carries weight precisely because Kiosse has stood in front of both men and absorbed their work. Sparring testimony of this kind offers a rare ground-level perspective that statistics and fight footage alone cannot fully capture — a reminder that some tools only reveal themselves in the training room.
For anyone tracking Svishchev's development, the report reinforces a reputation for punishing body work as a central, deliberate element of his fighting approach rather than an incidental weapon.
