Russian MMA fighter Rustam Khabilov received an American visa and will make his Bellator League debut in March this year, the opponent will come to prominence in the near future, the 36-year-old’s manager Rizvan Magomedov has told .
Khabilov participated in the UFC from 2012 to 2019. The lightweight (up to 70 kg), who moved to the welterweight category (up to 77 kg), held his last fight in November 2019 at the show from the UFC in Moscow, after which he announced the move to the Bellator league. For a long time, Khabilov’s UFC career and Bellator debut were hampered by US visa issues.
– It (obtaining a visa) was problematic before, and now, but now, as if in terms of percentage, the statistics are good. I still don’t understand the logic, and there are still no algorithms, we continue: if it didn’t work once, we try again. Rustam Khabilov hasn’t received a visa for a very long time, since 2014, but now he has opened it and will perform in March in the United States at Bellator. We will announce the opponent soon, Magomedov told .
Khabilov is one of the first Russians to make his UFC debut. For a long time he held the record for the number of fights in the most popular league in the world, and also became the first Russian fighter to lead the tournament: on June 7, 2014, Khabilov fought American Benson Henderson in the event major. of the evening.
Source : MatchTV
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