Magomed Ankalaev

Magomed Ankalaev is a mixed martial arts fighter playing for Russia and the country's first international master of sports in MMA.

Magomed Alibulatovich Ankalaev was born in Dagestan, in the village of Teletl, Shamil region, on June 2, 1992. The future fighter began to go in for sports as a child and, together with his friends, gave a clear preference to freestyle wrestling.

After graduating from school, the young man decided to receive a higher sports education on the basis of the Makhachkala DGPU, where he switched to Greco-Roman wrestling.

Magomed achieved his first successes in his sports biography in the field of combat sambo - the young man received the title of master of sports. Ankalaev's biography in MMA began in amateur fights in 2013. According to the athlete, it helped to get stronger - fights with different opponents hardened character and taught to fight, no matter what.

The young man began his sports career relatively late - at the age of 18, when he was engaged in Greco-Roman wrestling for a year. At the age of 19, Ankalaev came to train at the Dagestan martial arts club "Highlander". The first professional fight of the athlete was a duel with Ukrainian Vasily Babich during the Oplot Challenge 96 competition. This success marked the beginning of a series of fights in which Ankalaev was invariably the winner.

The sporting successes of the young fighter led to the fact that, at the end of 2015, MMA declared him "Sportsman of the Year". A year after his triumph at the Russian championship, Ankalaev was the first Russian to receive the title of international master of sports in mixed martial arts.

Then the athlete's talent was noted by Fedor Emelianenko, president of the Russian MMA Union - he said that Ankalaev is one of the most promising Russian fighters in this sport. By 2017, Magomed had 10 victories and not a single defeat on his account, the athlete received an offer to cooperate with the UFC. In October, shortly after defeating Brazilian Ricardo da Silva, Ankalaev signed a contract with the organization

The debut fight in a new capacity was the fight at the UFC Fight Night 127. On March 18, 2018, in London, Paul Craig, a Scottish athlete who won 11 professional fights at that time at 9, fought against the Russian. The fight was intense. Throughout the battle, Ankalaev was in the lead and at the very end he showered the opponent with a hail of blows.

However, at the last minute, Magomed missed Craig's attack, and he applied a "triangle" to the Russian, a strangulation. As a result, Ankalaev was forced to surrender one second before the end of the battle.

The athlete spent the second fight in the UFC on September 15, 2018, entering the ring against the Pole Marcin Prachnio. This fight was much more successful for the Russian than the previous one. At first, Ankalaev behaved cautiously in the ring, but then moved on to a series of attacks.

Attempts by Prachnio to use counterattacks against the opponent did not lead to success. Quite quickly, Magomed took advantage of the unsuccessful blow of the opponent and knocked out Marcin with a high-kick to the head.

It took Ankalaev one round to win the second fight in the UFC. But for Pracnio, the knockout, aggravated by the finishing blow, turned out to be difficult, and the medical workers had to make an effort to bring the athlete to his senses.

Magomed is a closed person and does not advertise his personal life. From social networks, he leads only a page on VKontakte, but even there updates rarely appear. On Instagram there is a blog with a photo, which is run by fans of the athlete.

In rare small interviews with news sites, Ankalaev mainly talks about sports and his attitude towards it. From them you can find out, for example, that Magomed considers John Jones to be one of the best UFC light heavyweight fighters, and singles out Rashid Yusupov from Russian athletes.

Magomed is a Muslim and very religious. The athlete has repeatedly mentioned that he goes to battle with faith in the Almighty in his heart, and also observes fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Ankalaev prefers to spend his free time, which the fighter does not have so much, with his family, but Magomed does not specify its composition. In 2015, in an interview with the press service of the MMA Union of Russia, the athlete mentioned that he was preparing for the wedding, which was to take place on June 7. However, there was no clarification of whose wedding it was, so it is not known whether Magomed has a wife and children.

Magomed's success during UFC Fight Night 136 in Moscow was appreciated by the organization. Ankalaev's victory over the Pole was the reason for receiving the "Performance of the night" bonus (the best performance of the evening). Together with other UFC-marked fighters, Magomed was awarded $ 50,000.

As the sport requires, Ankalaev keeps himself in shape - with a height of 188 cm, the weight of a fighter is 93 kg, necessary for the light heavy weight category. The athlete now speaks briefly about his future plans: he intends to prepare and go to the goal - that is, to the top.

World MMA Amateur Champion Russian MMA Amateur Champion Dagestan Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion WFCA Light Heavyweight Champion

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