Khabib Nurmagomedov
Khabib Abdulmanapovich Nurmagomedov (born 20 September 1988) is a Russian former professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
He was the longest-reigning UFC Lightweight Champion ever, having held the title from April 2018 to March 2021. With 29 wins and no losses, he retired with an undefeated record.
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Nurmagomedov is widely considered to be among the greatest mixed martial artists of all time, and was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame on June 30, 2022.
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Khabib Nurmagomedov at the UFC Hall of Fame in 2022
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| Born | Khabib Abdulmanapovich Nurmagomedov 20 September 1988 Sildi, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Native name | Хабиб Нурмагомедов | |||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | The Eagle | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Russian | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 155 lb (70 kg; 11 st 1 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
| Division | Lightweight (2008–2010, 2012–2020) Welterweight (2009–2011) |
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| Reach | 70 in (178 cm) | |||||||||||||||||
| Style | Combat Sambo | |||||||||||||||||
| Stance | Orthodox | |||||||||||||||||
| Fighting out of | Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia San Jose, California, United States |
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| Team | American Kickboxing Academy Eagles MMA |
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| Trainer | Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov Javier Mendez |
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| Rank | White belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Black belt and International Master of Sport in Judo International Master of Sport in Sambo International Master of Sport in Army Hand-to-Hand Combat International Master of Sport in Pankration |
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| Years active | 2008–2020 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Total | 29 | |||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 29 | |||||||||||||||||
| By knockout | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| By submission | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| By decision | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Website | khabib |
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A two-time world champion in combat sambo, Nurmagomedov has a background in wrestling, judo, and sambo. Nurmagomedov was ranked #1 in the UFC men’s pound-for-pound rankings at the time of his retirement,
until being removed following his title vacation in March 2021.
Fight Matrix ranks him as the #1 lightweight of all time. In 2019, Forbes ranked Nurmagomedov as the No. 1 most successful Russian athlete; Nurmagomedov also topped the list of the 40 most successful Russian show business and sports personalities under 40.
Nurmagomedov is also a mixed martial arts trainer and promoter, known for founding Eagles MMA and promoting the Eagle Fighting Championship (EFC).
After retirement, he transitioned to being a full-time coach and cornerman before retiring from the sport completely in January 2023.
Throughout his career, Nurmagomedov has become the subject of many controversies, including a longstanding affiliation with Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, questionable affiliations with oligarchs, advocacy for increased cultural censorship and misogynism.
Early life
Khabib Abdulmanapovich Nurmagomedov was born to an Avar family on 20 September 1988 in the village of Sildi in the Tsumadinsky District of the Dagestan ASSR, an autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
He has an older brother, Magomed, and younger sister, Amina.
His father’s family had moved from Sildi to Kirovaul, where his father converted the ground floor of their two-story building into a gym. Nurmagomedov grew up in the household with his siblings and cousins.
His interest in martial arts began when watching students training at the gym. Khabib’s training as a child included wrestling a bear when he was nine years old.
As is common with many children in Dagestan, he began wrestling from an early age: he started at the age of eight under the tutelage of his father, Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov.
A decorated athlete and a veteran of the Soviet Army, Abdulmanap had also wrestled from an early age, before undergoing training in judo and sambo in the military.
Abdulmanap dedicated his life to coaching the youth in Dagestan, in hopes of offering an alternative to the Islamic extremism common to the region.
In 2001, his family moved to Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, where he trained in wrestling from the age of 12, and judo from 15.
He resumed training in combat sambo, under his father, at 17. According to Nurmagomedov, the transition from wrestling to judo was difficult, but his father wanted him to get used to competing in a gi jacket.
Abdulmanap was a senior coach for the combat sambo national team in the Republic of Dagestan, training several athletes in sambo in Makhachkala, Russia.
Nurmagomedov frequently got into street fights in his youth, before focusing his attention on mixed martial arts.
Khabib said that, along with his father, three athletes who inspired him were the American boxers Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson and the Brazilian footballer Ronaldo Nazário.
Personal life
As part of his Dagestani Avar culture, Khabib Nurmagomedov frequently wore a papakha hat after fights and during promotional events.
As of 2019, Nurmagomedov is a third-year student at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.
He is an avid football fan and supporter of the clubs Anzhi Makhachkala, Galatasaray, Real Madrid and Liverpool, as well as the Russia national team.
In August 2021, there was speculation that Nurmagomedov had signed a professional football contract with third tier Russian side Legion Dynamo after he was seen shaking hands with the players and manager.
However, a few days later Nurmagomedov denied he had signed a professional contract instead saying he is very close to the club and just a fan.
He is the most-followed Russian on Instagram, with more than 34 million followers as of December 2022.
Coming from the Republic of Dagestan in Russia, Nurmagomedov is the first Muslim to win a UFC title. Nurmagomedov is a Sunni Muslim.
In October 2020, The Guardian stated that Nurmagomedov is the second-most-popular Muslim athlete in the world, behind only the Egyptian footballer Mohamed Salah.
The Guardian additionally stated that, since his high-profile victory over McGregor, Nurmagomedov has used his influential status to “further his ultra-conservative worldview”.
In 2018, Nurmagomedov advocated a crackdown on nightclubs in his home region of Dagestan, and leveled criticism at a rap concert held in Makhachkala, which led to rapper Egor Kreed canceling his performances in the region.
In 2019, Nurmagomedov spoke out against a play held in Dagestan that featured a scene of a scantily-clad woman seducing a man.
He described the play as “filth”, recommended that there be a governmental investigation into its production, and called for those involved to issue a public apology, which allegedly led to the producer of the play receiving threats on social media.
In October 2020, Nurmagomedov said of the President of France Emmanuel Macron in the wake of the murder of Samuel Paty “May the Almighty disfigure the face of this creature and all its followers,
Who under the slogan of freedom of speech, offend the feelings of more than one and a half billion Muslim believers.
May the Almighty humiliate them in this life, and in the next.” The post included an image of a boot print over Macron’s face.
Nurmagomedov added: “We are Muslims, we love our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) more than our mothers, fathers, children, wives and all other people close to our hearts.”
Nurmagomedov has trained with SC Bazarganova in Kizilyurt, Dagestan (2012), K-Dojo, AMA Fight Club in Fairfield, New Jersey (2012),
Mamishev Fight Team in Saint Petersburg (2012), Fight Spirit Team in Kolpino, St. Petersburg (2013), and KHK MMA Team in Bahrain (2015), which was funded by Bahraini prince Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa.
In 2016, Nurmagomedov co-founded his own team, Eagles MMA, with support from the Dagestani billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov.
After Magomedov was arrested on charges of embezzlement in 2018, Nurmagomedov used his post-fight speech at UFC 223 to appeal to Russian president Vladimir Putin for Magomedov’s release from jail.
Nurmagomedov has also hosted a training seminar at Fight Club Akhmat which is funded by Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, who has received criticism for his government’s human rights abuses.
Family
Khabib Nurmagomedov married Patimat in June 2013 and they have three children; a daughter born 1 June 2015, a son born 30 December 2017, and a son born on 22 December 2019.
The first son was named Magomed, after Khabib’s great-grandfather. Among Nurmagomedov’s cousins are fellow UFC fighters Abubakar Nurmagomedov and Umar Nurmagomedov, and Bellator fighter Usman Nurmagomedov.
In May 2020, Nurmagomedov’s father and long-time trainer Abdulmanap was placed in a medically induced coma after contracting COVID-19 following a heart surgery. He died on 3 July 2020 at a clinic in Moscow, at the age of 57.
Awards
In October 2018, Khabib Nurmagomedov was made an “Honorary Citizen of Grozny” by the mayor of Grozny Ibrahim Zakriev after his victory against McGregor at UFC 229.
He was also presented with a Mercedes car by Chechnya’s head Ramzan Kadyrov, funded from the Akhmad Kadyrov Foundation, and his father Abdulmanap was awarded the title of “Honoured Worker of Physical Culture of the Chechen Republic” by Kadyrov.
On 5 December 2019, Head of the Republic of Dagestan Vladimir Vasilyev awarded Nurmagomedov and his father, Abdulmanap the Order For Services to the Republic of Dagestan for their “significant contributions to sports in Dagestan”.
Mixed martial arts career
Early career
Khabib Nurmagomedov made his professional MMA debut in September 2008, he compiled four wins in under a month.
On 11 October, he became the inaugural Atrium Cup tournament champion, having defeated his three opponents at the Moscow event.
Over the next three years, he went undefeated, finishing 11 out of 12 opponents. These included a first-round armbar finish of future Bellator title challenger Shahbulat Shamhalaev, which marked his M-1 Global debut.
A 16–0 record in the regional circuits of Russia and Ukraine generated interest from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in signing Nurmagomedov.
Later, Nurmagomedov’s father revealed in an interview that due to a contract dispute with ProFC they had 11 court cases contesting the legitimacy of Nurmagomedov’s UFC contract.
After losing six and winning five cases, they reached an agreement and Khabib was able to continue his career.
Retirement and vacation of the UFC Lightweight Championship
Despite attempted negotiations to bring him back for one more fight, UFC president Dana White announced on 19 March 2021 that he had accepted Nurmagomedov’s decision to retire and that the UFC Lightweight Championship had been officially vacated.
On July 1, 2022, Nurmagomedov was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame at the International Fight Week in Las Vegas.
MMA promoter
Following his retirement, Nurmagomedov purchased the Gorilla Fighting Championship (GFC), a Russian-based MMA promotion, for $1 million – going on to rename it as the Eagle Fighting Championship (EFC).
MMA coach and cornerman
After retiring in October 2020, Nurmagomedov became an active coach with American Kickboxing Academy head coach Javier Mendez.
He coached and cornered current UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev, current UFC Welterweight Champion Belal Muhammad, Zubaira Tukhugov (UFC), Tagir Ulanbekov (UFC),
Gadzhi Rabadanov (Bellator), Islam Mamedov (Bellator), Saygid Izagakhmaev (ONE Championship), and his cousins Abubakar Nurmagomedov (UFC),
Umar Nurmagomedov (UFC), and current Bellator Lightweight Champion Usman Nurmagomedov. Nurmagomedov was expected to corner Islam Makhachev in a historic title defence against UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 284 but completely retired from MMA in January 2023,
including coaching and cornering fighters, to focus on his family.
Despite his retirement, Nurmagomedov briefly returned as a cornerman for Makhachev’s third title defence against Dustin Poirier at UFC 302 and for Umar Nurmagomedov who headlined the main event against Cory Sandhagen at UFC on ABC 7.
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Fighting style
Khabib Nurmagomedov employed a wrestling-based style of relentless pressure against his opponents, often described as “mauling”.
Using a variety of wrestling and judo/sambo takedowns, he forced his opponents against the cage, and locked up their legs and an arm to prevent them from escaping.
From this position, he exhausted his opponents by forcing his weight against them and attacked with measured strikes his opponents were often unable to defend.
This was one of the many signature styles that he used to deploy to advance towards his finishing move. Throughout his career, nineteen of his twenty-nine victories had come by way of either TKO/KO or submission.
Former three-time UFC Heavyweight Champion and two-time UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture praised Nurmagomedov as “brilliant”.
MMA Commentator Joe Rogan, a black belt in both 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu and Brazilian jiu-jitsu,
said of Nurmagomedov, “He’s the most terrifying lightweight contender in the world,” and “he’s just on such another level [of grappling] that the odds of beating him drop significantly after the first minute-and-a-half.”
UFC referee Herb Dean stated Nurmagomedov constantly talked to his opponents during fights.
