Mamed Khalidov

Mamed Khalidov is a Polish mixed martial artist of Chechen ethnicity born in Russia, competing in the Middleweight division of Polish MMA promotion KSW. He also acquired Polish citizenship. Khalidov is currently undefeated in the promotion. As of January 1, 2016, Khalidov was ranked themiddleweight in the world by Fight Matrix. He is the current KSW Middleweight Champion

Mamed Khalidov was born in Chechnya, Russia. He began practicing Kyokushin around age oforwhere he also holds black belt in. At age ofhe fled from his homeland to Poland and continued practicing kyokushin while adding other combat styles on his repertoire such as Taekwondo, Shotokan Wrestling and Boxing soon after his arrival. He also became competitive in all sports. Later he also became interested about becoming mixed martial artist and went training Mixed martial arts, Muay Thai, Combat Sambo, Brazilian jiujitsu and Grappling. He is a devout Sunni Muslim

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