ANYTHING COMBAT WITH JOHNNY K: ISMAIL NAURDIEV

Born in Grozny, Chechnya. Raised in Salzburg, Austria. Fighting out of Rabat, Morocco. Five-time Austrian national wrestling champion. UFC middleweight. Johnny K sits down with "The Austrian Wonderboy" for one of the most layered conversations the podcast has had — a fighter who had to be cut from the UFC, rebuild himself, and earn his way back to the organisation with a point to prove. He talks through his first-round KO of Ryan Loder in Qatar, what that finish meant after years of grinding, and where his head is at heading into the next chapter of his UFC career. He takes us behind the scenes of Kill Cliff FC in Florida one of the most competitive training environments in the sport his private camps in Morocco, his time at Wild Card Boxing with Freddie Roach, and what it means to share a cage-side with Brendan Allen and train alongside fighters at the highest level. Ismail gets into his relationship with Mairbek Taisumov the Chechen-Austrian fighter who proved to him that someone from Austria could make it to the top of MMA, and who became one of the most important figures in his career. This podcast occured before the rescheduling of the confirmed upcoming bout against Marvin Vettori at UFC 332 Oct 3. ISMAIL BECOME A COMBATANT ANYTHING COMBAT JOHNNY K