Dagestan-born UFC middleweight Abus Magomedov once expressed bafflement over the meteoric rise of South African fighter Dricus du Plessis, insisting that he is “not a fighter at all.” In a ...

It can be said that you can take the boy out of Dagestan, but you can’t take Dagestan out of the boy. That’s certainly true in the case of Nassourdine Imavov. Imavov and his family moved to ...

Try as he might, Conor McGregor couldn’t quite outdo Bryce Mitchell on Friday. McGregor posted on social media to insult former opponent and fellow ex-UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, his ...

Born in Makhachkala, he moved to a rural village by the name of Burshi as a baby, a somewhat three-hour drive ... set is still Makhachev’s recognised fighting style in the octagon. Dagestan’s ...