Islam nationality biography

Dustin Porrier for Islam is already the third protection of the belt, and the first against the real lightweight-before that Makhachev twice defeated the ex-leader of the P4P rating Alexander Volkanovski, who rose from the semi-flexible division. Makhachev was born and raised in Dagestan, where he began to play sports. In childhood, Islam was fond of Taekwondo and Wushu-Sanda, but then began to perform in the combat sambo.

The Russian debuted in the UFC in May with a record and defeated Leo Kunts, after which the first and only defeat of Islam in a professional career followed. In the second match in the best league of the world, he lost to the Brazilian Adrian Martins. Interestingly, the defeat did not affect Makhachev, moreover, he later gave out a series of 13 victories, repeating the record of Khabib Nurmagomedov.

The victory over Dustin Porrier will help Islam go down in history and go around his senior comrade. This will be a new record for the duration of the victorious series among all lightweights. This time, this time, without a conflict before the fight with Porrier, is less and less time, and, of course, now the fighters are engaged in weight loss in order to meet the limit of a light division.

This is especially true for Islam Makhachev, who, like Khabib at one time, drives a lot. Nurmagomedov even arranged real marathons on weight gain, since in the offseason his weight could reach 90 kg, and the light weight limit - 70.3 kg. The worship of the eagle did not always end successfully: in the year before the battle with Abel Trukhillo, the Russian failed to meet the limit, showing an advantage of almost 2 kg.

Nevertheless, almost everyone chases UFC, even heavyweights, therefore, Islam Makhachev has to exhaust himself with burning extra pounds before the fight. I must say that Islam, having seen enough of the “adventures” of Khabib, in the offseason does not allow himself to gain 20 extra kilograms. According to Nurmagomedov, Makhachev in the period of downtime weighs noticeably less.

After all, all fighters drive weight. Islam fights in lightweight up to 70 kg, and now weighs 82 kg, that is, he needs to throw 12 kg, ”said Khabib before Makhachev’s first title fight against Charles oliveira. Habib helps to prepare for a battle with Porrier: "The last 10 days will be crazy." The members of his team brought the members of his team to weigh the Russian fighter, and Makhachev himself looked very bad: it seemed that he would definitely not have time to recover before the battle.

However, how it ended, you know: Islam in the dominant style dealt with the Brazilian and won the treasured belt. At the same time, the opposition of Makhachev, as Makhachev himself admitted, he has been engaged in weight loss since the moment he performed in the sambo combat, and the most difficult weightlit of Islam was precisely at the World Sambo Championship when he lost to Vyacheslav Vasilenko.

The growing organism, the weight began to rise. I had to drive a lot. And then we really did not know how to do it. It was very difficult. One of the most heavy weightings in my life. The defeat suffered very hard. It was a dream - to win the World Sambo Championship. I thought that in any way I needed to plow further. There was a goal-to win the World Cup, ”Makhachev said in an interview with the UFC press service.

It is interesting that, despite the fact that Khabib drove more extra pounds, Islam is more gaining by the time of the fight. 36 hours after weighing Makhachev, as he himself admits, manages to gain more than 10 kg and weighs about 81 kg in the duel - that is, it is abroad of the welterial division and almost near the border of the middle weight category. Therefore, for those who ask the question of why the fighters are engaged in weighting, this is the perfect answer and an indicator.

At the same time, Habib, that Islam adheres to extreme weights when weight goes in recent days. Nurmagomedov drove six extra pounds three days before the fight, Makhachev dropped 9 kg 10 days before the battle with Dryu. Makhachev’s experience is that Nurmagomedov has very rich in this regard, so there is no doubt that Islam will fit into the champion limit for such an important fight.

The only question is how he will have time to recover and in what form it will be. However, judging by his two last battles, Makhachev copes with this perfectly.

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