Sarvar Hamidov Biography

It is still unknown where exactly. I think that in Europe. Two is a minimum, but at least three. One fight is very few, because you lose a lot of things. What you do in the hall, and what turns out in a cage is two different things. When there is a constant practice of fights, experience appears, and when he is not, the fighter begins to get lost, spend a lot of effort at the training camp.

Two or three fights per year is perfect. The maximum is four fights, because the weighing is very heavy. Each time to drive the weight and fight is also hard. Now much more. In general, a lot of money is required: for flights, accommodation, conditions, sports nutrition, coach, sparring partner. More than 30 thousand dollars are exactly spent. This is only one battle.

For example, two months before my extreme fight, I was in Saudi Arabia, they called me and said about the battle on June 22. I flew to Tashkent, began to create conditions for myself there. Of course, good means are needed for all this. Plus, my family and my brothers help me. There is also a sponsor that I really appreciate and which always supports me. Given where I was in a year, I spent a lot.

If you take preparations for the extreme match, then in two months of preparation I spent about 30 thousand dollars. In general, this battle did not pay off. And the previous two paid off. If I am at least twice a year, then everything will pay off. If once, then certainly not. Praise to the Almighty, there is a family and close people nearby who create the conditions for me.

There are fighters who cannot afford it. I have the opportunity to afford such training. You yourself expected that you would ever come to MMA? When I arrived in Barnaul, I plans to continue to engage in freestyle wrestling. But when I flew there, there was no freestyle struggle in this city. I had to choose another way, an alternative to play sports. I had a friend who invited me to engage in MMA.

We found the hall, we created the conditions. I was a summer student, there is no money. They told me - train for free. I came to Barnaul and achieved a lot, and it is not considered some kind of large city with a good infrastructure. Therefore, when some people talk about difficulties, I answer them: guys, I got from Bellator from Barnaul. Therefore, train and dream, if you are destined, the Almighty will give you.

I walked for a couple of years, even received a red belt. And then he broke his hand and threw it. When recovered, a close friend of our family brought me to a free -minded struggle. I am the winner of the Tajik Championship among youth, became the third at the adult championship. He was a candidate for the national team, he could go to the World Cup in the United States, if he had performed a little better.

And then he came to Barnaul to enter AltSU. I was in shock. In this city there was only a Greco-Roman struggle. At that time, MMA just began to develop. In Barnaul, I found a completely new hall, interested the guys, and they took me. He also began to speak through hand -to -hand combat, by amateur MMA, on Grappling. A year later, I was offered a battle. I didn’t even have gloves.

I went to my first fight with a guy who was older than me: I was 19 years old, he - he was engaged in combat sambo, was experienced. I managed to strangle him in the first round. And that’s how it went on. Now I'm here. There was no money, I did not know what to do, sometimes starving. But he continued to train. There were good coaches and guys, they helped me. He began with a friend to go to the hall near my hostel.

I graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the Altai State University. He studied, trained in parallel. Although it was cold, - 40, did not give up his studies and training. After graduating from the university, I lived in Barnaul for four more years. I would like to get there, show my country to the whole world, because in these leagues the whole world will learn about your people.

This is my dream - to show their homeland and her story so that people begin to be interested in order to leave a mark in history. There were moments when you thought you would lose now? When you pay a lot of attention to this, you begin to get lost. I try to adhere to the opinion if I am destined to someday lose, I will accept it with dignity. At the same level, I will try to have good results.

I had invitations, I fought twice in Europe. This is some kind of mean law. Some guys who do not act anywhere receive an invitation and give them a visa. And they do not give me, performing in such a league as Bellator. They do not explain why. They just say: sorry, you are refused. But I think so, if I am destined, I will fight in the USA. I will not wind myself up. Without even having a visa, I am already fighting in the American League.

What can you say about them? I am in touch with everyone, and with those in UFC. When I am here, I try to gather the guys to train, share their experience. We already have four guys in the UFC and everyone has prospects to stay there longer. Everyone is unique in its own way and each has its own style of battle. Someone is lucky, someone less.

But, I think, thanks to such fighters, mixed martial arts themselves in the country only win and develop.Now many Tajik fighters have more opportunities to show themselves, to establish and get into a good league. At the same time, we have good fighters not only in the UFC, but also in other promotions. There are many new young talents. In general, I believe that the prospects of the Tajik MMA are good.

Well, I have a big goal - a championship belt. To conquer him, to show his family, take him to his homeland, enter his name in history. Toggle Navigation.