Vagab Vagabov Biography nationality

The Master of Sports in the Bill Sambo Master of Sports of International Class Juu-Jitsu Master of Sports of International Class in Ushu-Sanda Winner of the World Ju-Jitsu Dnepropetrovsk championship winner of the World Cup in Ushu-Sanda Hong Kong Interviews of the year Vagab, I will start with congratulations, you will have a successful debut in one of the best organizations of the world.

The fighter with such an impressive record as yours will have a lot of proposals. Why did you choose WSOF? As I said earlier, in the m year there was a contract for signing in the UFC, but then I was busy with other matters. Then I met Ali Abdel-Aziz Vice President WSOF and decided to play with his organization, I believe that they have good prospects. Tell me a little about how the preparation itself went and in which overseas camps you trained.

What are the pros and cons? This time I even distilled, too early began a diet. I do not work with dietetologists, I know my body and is able to bring its weight to normal. Overseas fighters are famous for the ability to "drive" weight. How was the weight loss under the guidance of local nutritionists? There was a little time and in a hurry I made some mistakes, in particular I “distilled” the weight, so the advice is for everyone: no need to examine before battles.

The main plus there is that the fighters live according to the regime: three workouts per day and are not distracted anywhere. It is so rare at home, especially when a bunch of other things, and also under my leadership, is the MMA Federation in Stavropol and I am the general manager of the Dagfighter club and many other fighters in Russia, because there are very few free time.

In our training, I consider a big plus basic techniques, the so -called "school", for example, struggle, boxing, etc. America is weaker here. I can’t say something new in the USA. I would like to note the American coaches of Greg Jackson and Michael Winkeljon - they are truly stars in MMA, it was surprised that they were very modest and simple men, for which I respected them even more.

I wanted to express special gratitude to our brother Halimbek Isaev for support during my preparation in America. Vagab, during preparation for the battle, the rivals were changed twice. How did this affect the preparation and on the battle in general, did everything go according to plan? Few people agree to the battle in this situation - the first replacement was two weeks before the fight, then they gave me an experienced fighter, he was a good drummer and thereby the two remaining weeks I practically did not devote the time of wrestling technology.

Three days before weighing, I learn about another replacement and he is a fighter of a completely different plan - Grappler, who is only fighting in battle. I do not know how to refuse the battles, in the history of my battles, I was replaced 12 times or I changed my opponent at the end of the battle. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why in the first round the battle went not according to the plan to agree to the battle when the opponent was changed to him twice, and even more so three days before the fight in such a serious promotion, this is a serious step and requires certain volitional qualities, but is it a great risk and will you take battles with such unexpected surprises in the future?

Although I agree that this is not a cautious step for a professional career. What was the incident after stopping the battle, which served as a reason for disqualification for 5 months? It is stupid to leave us in this position. I did not really try to get up, because I was comfortable, and the opponent strained and could not hit, because he would free his hands for finishing and I would have got up, we both felt it.

We lay the whole round at the whim of referee. Next; In the second round, he has a kapa long before the stop. We again lay in the stalls, got up, and when I began to “cling” him from the hands in the rack, the referee decided to stop the battle, take him into a corner, rinse the clock, ask about his well -being. At that moment, Brian spoke rudely to me. The battle continued and I began to score it by the grid, the referee somehow sluggishly puts his hands on my opponent, something says something like “stop” there, but he really left me only after I slammed my opponent with my palm, by the way, for his “tongue”.

After the battle, he was unhappy, we talked and came to a consensus: I would not have done so if he did not swear. And 5 months of disqualification - a hint that this is no longer repeated for discipline in the promotion. When will the date of the next battle be known? And what are the plans for the near future? Not so long ago, he fought with Shlemenko at the Fight Nights tournament, all three rounds fought, so this weight is not news for him.

Yasubi Enomoto weighs more than me between battles, just drives a lot. I am sure that this fight will be interesting to the audience. Your impressions of the past tournament, the level of organization and its influence on the development of MMA in the republic - Fight Nights always holds high -profile tournaments. Dagestan, this tradition of them, moreover, could not ignore. The tournament passed brightly and of course for the development of MMA in the republic, it will be a big jump forward.This tournament made it possible for many fighters to declare themselves that Anderson Silva, after the tournament in Dagestan, invited you with Arthur Alibulatov to practice his camp in Brazil, is this true?

Arthur was nearby, Anderson found out that Arthur and I in the same weight category and invited us both. We exchanged numbers and I hope we will not postpone our visit to Brazil into a long box. In general, you and Arthur can often be observed together. Are you friends or are it just a good relationship of two athletes? In December, Arthur then won. Since then, they often performed at the same tournaments, made friends.

Of course, there is a sports relationship - I am leading his management, I try to help him in the situations that I have already passed and naturally we help each other prepare for battles. We have a different "stroke", we have something to learn from each other. That is, in addition to the fighting career and work in the MMA federation, are you also engaged in the management of our fighters?

Can I do a little more about this? Can you tell you a little about yourself, for example, where you were born and how did you come to sports? From 14 to 16, he played in the youth club "Anji". After I returned to boxing again, but I played almost everywhere where you could beat and fulfilled the title of master of sports in boxing, kik-boking, combat sambo, spent several battles in MMA and 6 battles for somewhere in the age of the year of amateur boxing and, as they say, stopped, only occasionally went into the hall.

Several times he performed at some competitions. After the summer “rest”, I won the World Juu-Jitsu World Combat Championship in M-1 Fighter found out that I have a rating-Sherdog and I already have 6 or 7 wins in statistics there. Upon returning home, he began to train seriously and since then I have been trying to perform stably. Now this is one of the best clubs in the republic.

What are the plans for further development? We often conduct joint fees with the top clubs of Russia - Highlander, Champion, Peresvet. My fighters from the Stavropol Territory can easily undergo training in our club. In general, Dagfighter is a full -fledged professional fighting club. What sport attracts you besides MMA? For what reasons is this fight interesting to you? Will the transition to the western promotion change something?

Waiting for such an outcome of the battle? I think today few can compete with him. After your battle with Ruslan Khashanov, there were many disputes on the Internet that ended when a video of the battle appeared. How did they put it with Ruslan after this battle? He is a great fighter, I think he will still show himself. Good luck to him. Who is doing business in the MMA STAVROPOL federation now, when you are not, who trains the guys, what tournaments are held for them inside the region?

The guys go to different halls, I write a program for them and they work on it. They perform at any tournaments, like all of us, when we were just starting. Next year we plan to pay salaries to our successful fighters. I would like to hear about which of our fighters communicated abroad and what is it what to see a fellow countryman tens of thousands of km from the house?

We have been familiar for a long time, but I have not met our other our other. What battle in your life is also remembered most of all? You can recall the battle on the M-1 Fighter G. A very unpleasant situation, any person experienced a feeling of laziness, how do you fight him if such thoughts come to mind before training? To become the best fighter, you need to get down to business and not to slow down, especially if it’s just some laziness how expensive is the training of the ocean?

There can be different data on nutrition, it is individual that you have a brother Islam, how many children are in your family? In Dagestan families, usually an older brother indicates the younger, even in the section. Are your brothers also playing sports? For a long time, Islam played on boxing, he was the first number of Russia among juniors and won almost everything on juniors.

Last year, he spent a couple of battles in MMA in China, where both won. Now he is there in China, until I know that you already have a son. What does Adam do, if not a secret? From childhood, Adam is with me in the hall. He is already studying in the 2nd grade. I periodically lead him to the free struggle and judo. Why did the choice fall on the fight, not boxing.