Magomedkhan Gamzatkhanov
| Magomedkhan Gamzatkhanov Магомедхан Гамзатханов |
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| Born |
April 15, 1961 Anchih, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Other names | Volk Han, "The Russian Wolf", "The Wizard" |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Ethnicity | Avar |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight | 235 lb (107 kg; 16.8 st) |
| Division | Heavyweight |
| Style | Sambo, Shoot wrestling |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of | Tula, Russia |
| Team | Russian Top Team RusFighters Sport Club |
| Years active | 1991-2001, 2012 |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 29 |
| Wins | 21 |
| By knockout | 1 |
| By submission | 10 |
| By decision | 3 |
| Unknown | 7 |
| Losses | 8 |
| By knockout | 2 |
| By submission | 3 |
| By decision | 2 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
Magomedkhan Amanulayevich Gamzatkhanov (Russian: Магомедха́н Аманула́евич Гамзатха́нов; born April 15, 1961 in Anchih, Dagestan), better known by his alias Volk Han (Волк-хан), is a Dagestani-born Russian professional wrestler and later a mixed martial artist renowned for his technical mastery of sambo. He would go on to represent Russia in the Russian RINGS team with Fedor Emelianenko, Andrei Kopylov, Nikolai Zuyev and Mikhail Ilyukhin.
Gamzatkhanov started training freestyle wrestling while at college. After learning in several teams, his friend Ahmed Sharipov introduced him to the five-time world champion Ali Aliyev, who accepted to train him. Under his tutelage, Gamzatkhanov won the Nalchik regional championship in 1979. He also won the USSR junior championship two years back to back, and placed fourth in the international Aliyev Cup. In 1981, when Han began his two-year service in the USSR military, he transitioned to sambo and was scouted by Viktor Lysenko for his Tula based team. In 1984, Gamzatkhanov attended the Police Academy in Moscow. A year later, he competed in the USSR championship and placed second after losing in the finals to the legendary Alexander Pushnitsa. However, he bounced back by winning the gold medal at the openweight division in 1985, as well as the first place in the USSR championships of 1987 and 1988. He also won the Kalinin international tournament, reserved to the highest practitioners of the spost. In 1991, Gamzatkhanov returned to the USSR championship, but he was again eliminated in the finals, this time by Murat Khasanov. The same year, he was scouted by Akira Maeda for his professional wrestling promotion Fighting Network RINGS. He was given the ring name of Volk Han ("Volk" meaning "wolf" and "Han" being short for Magomedkhan).
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