Biography
Rustam Habilov is one of the most famous Russian representatives in mixed martial arts. For spectacular speeches in the UFC composition, it was called a tiger. Now 23 victories are found in the sports biography of Rustam, 14 of which are awarded by the decision of judges (on points).
The future fighter was born on November 4, 1986 in Goxwa, a village located in the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan. By nationality he is Kumyk. Since childhood, the boy dreamed of a career of a professional fighter, but there was no sports sections nearby, and Rustam made himself a boxing pear from the old bag to work out blows. Only in school years, he was able to fully train and immediately began to demonstrate the successes.
Martial arts
At the first major competitions, Habilov got at the age of 13th - it was the Championship of Dagestan on Wushu-Sanda. Then he took the 3rd place, although he was considered one of the main contenders for the victory: win the championship Rustam was prevented by a cold.
After School, Habilov became a student of the Makhachkala road technical school, but by that time he had already decided to devote himself to the sport and began his classes under the leadership of Abdulmanapa Nurmagomedov, a famous combat sambo coach. With his son, a fighter Habib Nurmagomedov, they still have good friends.
In 2007, Rustam debuted in mixed martial arts. His first rival became Bagaudine Abasov. The fight ending with the victory of Habilov became the beginning of the series of 11 won tournaments that lasted until 2011. Representatives of the leading league of the world were interested in a promising fighter, and Rustam was invited to the United States - to train under Greg Jackson.
The most spectacular battle in the career of Habilov is the battle with Akin Durant, whom Rustem sent to the knockout by a throw from the deflection. The first defeat of the Tiger suffered from the compatriot - the fighter Ruslan Khaskhanova. In 2012, Habilov entered the UFC and opened a new victorious series of 3 winnings. Gradually, he rose to the 11th line rating of fighters in lightweight.
2014 was marked by Rustam conflict with National Ali Bagutinov. The American media wrote that the fighters were quarreled in the training hall, and the case ended in not at night with sports manual. Habilov argued that they were "just talked", and Ali himself in an interview for the portal Sports.ru stated that a certain friend Rustam hit him.
According to him, in the hall at that moment there was a friend of an athlete from Russia, who did not like when Ali intervened in the conversation. Having imagined the moment, he approached Bagoutine from behind and defeated him a strong unexpected blow. The athlete fell on the floor and for a long time came to his senses. According to Ali, the incident unpleasantly affected his health and psychological setting and became one of the reasons for his subsequent defeat in a duel with Demetrius Johnson.
In 2016, Rustam Habilov met in the ring with Jason Saggo. He confidently attacked and spent several spectacular shocks, after which she completed the battle of the attacking series and won the glasses.
In 2017, Rustam did not work out most of the planned fights from Rustam: he broke the meniscus on the right knee, and before that I had to operate the left knee and shoulder. Rehabilitation took place in Germany, where, according to an athlete, he immediately began to give long loads after surgery. Health problems did not forced Habilov to revise the pace and the mode of training, except that he began to pay more attention to warming procedures and prevention of injuries.
In September 2018, the long-awaited fight of Habilov with the Canadian fighter Kaian Johnson took place. The fight began quietly - no one was striving to forcing events. In the first round, the initiative proceeded from Rustam, but later it intercepted it by Canadian, having conducted a multi-key combination. As a result, the victory still went to Habilov, although the opinion of judges was not unanimous.
Personal life
Rustam Habilov is married, but little about his spouse is known. The wedding passed through Dagestan customs, there is a photo of the bride in the national wedding dress. Habilov had two sons. About the personal life athlete speaks reluctantly. It is known that now the wife with children lives in Dagestan, until he trains in the United States.
Rustam has pages in the social networks "Twitter" and "Instagram", where he shares photographs from the Competition.
Athlete's growth - 172 cm, weight - 70 kg.
The media call Habilov a hot-tempered man, "constantly falling in history." The most famous conflict was the conflict with an unfamiliar girl in the Ukrainian restaurant McDonalds, which allegedly began to discuss him with girlfriends and laugh loudly, after which Rustam splashed her in the face of Kolya and threw a paper cup.
The network hit the video of the incident, shot by one of the eyewitnesses. The leadership of the sports club had to apologize for the fighter, and Habilov said that he was looking for a girl and brought her personal apologies.
Rustam Habilov now
Today the fighter still calls his training house "Jackson MMA" and changing the base is not going to change. Its main coaches - Greg Jackson and Mike Wineldjon. In September 2018, Rusthem took the 15th line in the official UFC rating among speakers in lightweight weight.
As for the following fights, Habilov agrees to see the opponent of any fighter from the top 15 in them. He himself would prefer Kevin Lee, with whom he recently had a verbal conflict - he allowed himself unpleasant statements about Dagestan fighters.
Now Habilov trains a lot and, although it admits that it misses the family, leave a career is not going.
"I would like to continue to perform in UFC and would not agree on anything else," he says. "I go ahead to the belt and wives a lot for this."Titles
- Russian champion in combat sambo
- World Champion in combat sambo
- Champion of the International Tournament for Full Dact Processing Steam