Republic of Dagestan

Mate, just to bring us home here, I just need to glaze up the Volk a little bit, because fuck, he had a good win on the weekend.

Volk, 38 years old, against a 20-0 Dagestani wrestler, undefeated, the boogeyman of the division.

Wow.

And Volk, he not only wins, mate, he absolutely feeds the bloke.

Watched the replay the next day.

But, mate, it was so sick because first round, competitive.

Second round, the Dagestani wrestles him.

Volk, not today.

80% of them, give or take, are in Iran.

But they're found as far up as Dagestan in Russia, Georgia, throughout the South Caucasus, and Azerbaijan, Armenia.

They're also found in Turkmenistan, Turkey.

They're really all over the place.

Um, His interview that's going around where he's like, there's too many contenders and it doesn't really do anything for my legacy.

It's like, what? That's not very Dagestani of you.

What are you talking about? It's also not very champion of you.

You have legit contenders there.

I think during that time would have been a good time to implement it.

Also, what we found is that during this time of 2015, 16, all the way up till now, is that a lot of the guys that are having the most success are from the Dagestan area, from the Chechnya area, from Uzbekistan, all those areas where they have great wrestling, right? Russia and so forth.

Yep.

and they have let's be honest john they've kind of taken over the game you know don't get me wrong throughout

No, dude, you'll get your ass kicked right now.

I think this will definitely bring more action, and I think we'll see a little bit of a change in the top fighters at the top because of this for a short period of time.

But good wrestlers like from Dagestan, even the U.S. has a ton of great wrestlers.

But we're going to see more of them now start to maybe make their way in because the knees to the head of a grounded opponent will help them.

He didn't seem like he was out of breath.

He didn't seem outmatched, and he was going against a Dagestani guy that, like, really, in all honesty, you know, tried to make him work.

So I think if that is – If this Downey shows up – If that's the Downey that shows up, Downey will win.

But –

Bolatbek.

Bolatbek.

He is a Dagestani fighter that we've seen in ADXC.

I think two or three.

the the first time my right ear blew up i was like this is kind of cool then it blew up and i was like i need to syringe this shit it goes from very quick to oh this is a nice little trophy too babe please drain my ear my head with my ear was falling off my head but um i was on the way flying back the air hostess she was like what sport And I was like, oh, it's kind of like wrestling.

I was like, where are you from? She's like, I'm from Dagestan.

I was like, okay, it's nothing like wrestling.

It's jiu-jitsu.

Okay.

But I'm probably gonna do that as well.

Yeah, because I saw that the Dagestanis and the Russians, and they've all got the three quarter length spats.

I was like, what's going on?

Ragasin, Archuleta to start it off.

Archuleta... ragasin by tech fall three takedowns two turns um kind of what i expected ragasin's a division one all-american he's 25 archuleta 39 ufc guy's been fighting a lot held a couple belts in different promotions there um i didn't know brandon allen ufc guy he's coming up in the ranks um i didn't didn't totally know the guy that he was wrestling but the guy who's wrestling was 42 from russia um allen won that one by tech fall 10-0 Pat Downey fought a Russian fighter from Dagestan.

Magomed Kirimov.

Magomed Kirimov, I think.

I said one of the stands.

I don't know about Dagestan because they got all those weird UFC dudes that wear fur hats and that neck beard.

They'd have a good O-line.

I'm not certain you want anything to do with those.