{"id":2122,"date":"2023-09-20T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T11:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2023-09-20T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T16:31:13","slug":"shamil-gaziev-of-bahrains-khk-club-wins-by-submission-in-the-main-bout-of-the-dwcs-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/shamil-gaziev-of-bahrains-khk-club-wins-by-submission-in-the-main-bout-of-the-dwcs-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamil Gaziev of Bahrain&#8217;s KHK Club wins by submission in the main bout of the #DWCS event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dagestan has a new undefeated UFC prospect \u2013 and this one is a heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former volleyball player for the Dagestan national team before being discovered by legendary MMA coach Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, Shamil Gaziev (11-0) needed just three minutes to demolish Greg Velasco (6- 1), previously undefeated, and land a UFC contract without any problem. in Tuesday&#8217;s Contender Series main event at UFC APEX.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gaziev, 33, knocked down Velasco with the first punch of the fight, a nasty right hand that immediately put the American on the defensive. Gaziev then lunged at his fallen prey, took Velasco&#8217;s back in the ensuing melee and forced an end to the fight with a rear naked choke at 2:38 of the first round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy goal is to win a title,\u201d Gaziev said. \u201cThat day you will see me happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"rtl\">Undefeated Dagestani heavyweight Shamil Gaziev headlines the night for 4 decades..<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/chechnya?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#chechnya<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dagestan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dagestan<\/a><br \/>\u0634\u0627\u0645\u0644 \u063a\u0627\u0632\u064a\u064a\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0627\u063a\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646\u064a \u0644\u0644\u0648\u0632\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062b\u0642\u064a\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a \u0644\u0645 \u064a\u0647\u0632\u0645 \u064a\u062a\u0635\u062f\u0631 \u0639\u0646\u0627\u0648\u064a\u0646 \u0644\u064a\u0644\u0629 4 \u0639\u0642\u0648\u062f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wQHdPhYXWA\">pic.twitter.com\/wQHdPhYXWA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; mmamag.ma (@jamalsoussi10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamalsoussi10\/status\/1704529678701105375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dagestan has a new undefeated UFC prospect \u2013 and this one is a heavyweight. A former volleyball player for the Dagestan national team before being discovered by legendary MMA coach Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, Shamil Gaziev (11-0) needed just three minutes to demolish Greg Velasco (6- 1), previously undefeated, and land a UFC contract without any problem. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news","8":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}