Debut at UFC 288 Ikram Aliskerov in an interview with he talked about the advice of Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov.
Prior to his MMA debut, the middleweight won the Russian and World Fight Sambo Championships and played on the same national team with current UFC champion Islam Makhachev.
– Did you cross paths with Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov?
– Many times, many times I was at the training camp under his guidance. The relationship was quite close. He said to me, “Don’t drive the weight.” Even before the knockout loss, he said this. After that, we never saw each other again. And then he said, “Hey, you have to be in the UFC. You’re the champion of Russia, the champion of the world, why don’t you set yourself some big goals?!” He loved sambo wrestlers, if, as he said himself, he saw that the “jacket maker” (the one who competes in jacket, judo or sambo. – “”) treated him very well.
“You were on the sambo team with Islam Makhachev?”
– Yes, he competed in the category up to 74 kg, and I up to 91 kg, it was the 2016 Russian Championship.
Did you fight Islam in a jacket?
– Yes. We didn’t have sparring, but we trained with vests,” Aliskerov told .
Also in an interview, Aliskerov said he came to MMA through another Abdulmanap student, Khabib Nurmagomedov’s second Esed Emiragaev.
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Source : MatchTV
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