When Khabib Nurmagomedov entered the assembly hall of the Palace of Culture. Abai in the city of Aktau, it became very noisy.
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Unfortunately, not everyone is greeted like that – for example, when Gamzat Hiramogomedov entered the building of the Federal Service of Judicial Officers in Moscow the morning before, it was noticeably quieter there. So much so that it was heard how one of the employees advised Gamzat to go to the bank as soon as possible and pay the fine. We will now explain to you what it is for.
Aktau and Makhachkala are separated by 300 kilometers from the Caspian Sea, and Khabib brought 15 fights here, the main of which was the fight between Hiramomedov and Kazakh Dauren Ermekov. The tournament was scheduled for July 16, and Gamzat’s flight from Moscow was scheduled for the night of July 13-14. It was around two o’clock that evening when Hiramagmoedov was informed at the airport that he could not leave Russia due to a debt of 25,000 rubles. Gamzat returned from Vnukovo to Moscow. Before that, he was offered the nickname “gangster”, the fighter himself thought of the nickname “Hira” (the sacred mountain among Muslims), but now there are no questions with the choice.
“When they told me about the situation, I abruptly called my friends in Moscow and said that we urgently need to solve this problem somehow. Gamzat had such a problem, and the law is the law. Myself, I usually go two weeks in advance and check everything. Purely by chance, you can break something, make some kind of fine and that’s it. And it takes time. Apparently, Gamzat likes to drive a car. It is clear that he went to pay, but it still takes time for it to enter the database. But everything seems to be fine,” says the president of Shamil Zavurov League.
Gamzat was unaware of Zavurov’s help, and alone, very early the next morning, he got an appointment with a representative of the FSSP. They explained to me how to pay the fine and advised me to be the last to pass the control at the airport. Hiramagomedov’s flight was scheduled for noon the next day (July 15), but the information in the border control database may not have been updated even then.
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The nuance also consisted in the fact that the day before the tournament, the fighters had to go through the weighing procedure. Usually 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. It was agreed with Hiramomedov’s rival team that Gamzat would be weighed separately in the presence of Dauren Ermekov’s representatives. Formally, this did not give Gamzat any particular advantage. On the contrary, the less time an athlete has between the weigh-in and a fight, the less time he has left to regain the pounds lost during the weight race.
Already after the meeting with the ushers (to clarify, this is July 14), Hiramomedov goes to the Moscow hall, beats the bag for three rounds and shows 84.1 kg on the scales. With this weight, he goes to bed, realizing that he will definitely reach the limit of the category (84 kg). The flight to Aktau is scheduled for 12 noon the next day.
On July 15, around 11:30 a.m., we learn that Hiramagomedov has passed all the controls and in three hours we can meet him at Aktau airport. His opponent right now is walking around the hotel in Kazakhstan, looks very calm and says he can give Hiramomedov as much time as he wants to gain weight if he fails on the first try.
At 6 p.m., Hiramogomedov lands in Kazakhstan. In the next hour, he will do several things. Describe what happened to him on the last day. Camels on foot sincerely surprised at the entrance to Aktau. It will print the Kazakh name of camel milk “shibat” in the phone. He will confirm that he intends to let go of Dauren Ermekov: “Otherwise, why am I here? Why did I come?” He will say that he was sitting at the same school desk as Abdulrashid Sadulaev. Step on the scale and even in clothes will show 83.1 kg. Now hardly anyone fits in the weight with a such a margin without going through a weight race. Gamzat says weight is not the main thing for him.
In general, according to Hiramagomedov, it is very easy to understand that calls for “more media” and more interesting fighters are doomed to failure. Memory capacity cannot be trained. Unlike the ability to fall in knockouts and endure pain. It’s just that for some reason it turns out that Hiramagomedov can take the mic without speaking before that for two years and say, “Honestly… I heard Faridun’s name for the first time today . Is he a fighter? Or, for example, he comes to Kazakhstan and answers his rival Dauren Ermekov’s question, “who did you even let down?” responds “Come on then you’ll be the first one I drop.” Or to the words of a Kazakh journalist “I think Dauren will win”, he replies: “You seemsthat Dauren is going to win, and I Of coursethat I will win.”
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For their battle, a special platform is being built on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Locals, who are inclined to easy maximalism, say 30,000 people came here last time to fight. This time they will try to collect 40,000.
“I was in Azerbaijan, I fought with an Azerbaijani. The whole room was rooting for him, but the result was for me. In the first round. I don’t think all of Kazakhstan will support him, there will be people who will support me. I have such a scent,” Khiramagomedov shares his expectations. It now remains to be seen whether Dauren Ermekov will be able to arrest the man who could not be arrested by the bailiffs in Moscow.
Source : MatchTV
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