Rasul Mirzaev

Rasul Mirzaev Расул Мирзаев
Born	Rasul Rabadanovich Mirzaev (1986-03-30) March 30, 1986 Kizlyar, Dagestan ASSR, Soviet Union
Other names	Black Tiger (Чёрный Тигр) Blackguard (Мерзавец)
Nationality	Russian
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)
Style	Sambo
Fighting out of	Moscow, Russia Derbent, Dagestan
Team	Champion Club Derbent[1]
Rank	International Master of Sports in Combat Sambo
Mixed martial arts record
Total	9
Wins	9
By knockout	2
By submission	2
By decision	3
Unknown	2
Losses	0
Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog

Rasul Mirzaev

Medal record
Competitor for  Russia
Combat Sambo
World Championships
Gold	2010 Tashkent	62 kg

Rasul Rabadanovich Mirzaev (Russian: Расу́л Рабада́нович Мирза́ев, born March 30, 1986) is a Russian mixed martial artist of Dagestani heritage. In 2012, he was convicted of the reckless manslaughter of a student he had punched during an altercation.

Sports career

Mirzaev began training at the Moscow-based Sambo-70 sports club in 2007. In November 2010, Mirzaev won first place at the combat sambo division of the World Sambo Championships that was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, submitting his opponent Baasankhun Damlanpurev from Mongolia in thirty seconds. In the same year, the Moscow Sambo Federation awarded Mirzaev with Best Athlete of the Year in combat sambo.

Mirzayev is undefeated in his mixed martial arts career. His record stands at nine wins and no losses. His first win was in October 2009 at the Battle of Champions in Elista in a duel with Danil Turinghe. In June 2010, he defeated Marat Pekov at Fight Nights - Battle of Moscow 1. In March 2010, Mirzayev defeated Evgeni Khavilov at Battle of Moscow 3. In May of that year, he won a fight with Roman Kishev at United Glory 14: 2010-2011 World Series Finals. After a near 2 year gap in his MMA career due to his criminal case, he made his return in March 2013 and has since won 4 straight fights.^[2] In July 2011, Mirzaev fought for the Euro-Asia Featherweight Championship title in the Fight Nights - Battle of Moscow 4 event. The Japanese MMA Super Star Masanori Kanehara lost to Mirzaev by technical knockout in less than two minutes.^[3]

Criminal investigation

According to the Moscow police, a disagreement between Mirzaev and a 19-year-old Ivan Agafonov took place on August 13, 2011 at 4 a.m., in the center of Moscow near a night club. Mirzaev punched Agafonov down to the pavement. Agafonov died in a hospital four days later.^[4] The Agafonov family agreed with the experts, who say the cause of the young man’s death was not a punch from Mirzaev, but the head trauma he sustained from falling on the pavement.^[5]

After the death of Agafonov, his mother said that doctors failed to provide her son with necessary help. The Moscow Department of Health set up a commission composed of several neurosurgeons. They studied the actions of their colleagues and concluded that physicians who provided first aid to Agafonov indeed made some mistakes, but none of them were fatal. "All the shortcomings were of a formal nature," - the experts said. - "Help to the victim was rendered in full. And to anticipate the development of Agafonov's trauma was not possible."^[6]

Although originally charged with murder, Mirzaev was convicted on 27 November 2012 of negligent manslaughter and released by the court, his 15 months on remand having been taken into account. At the time the judge was reading out the sentence, a number of nationalist protesters associated with the banned Slavic Union were arrested as they tried to gain entry to the courtroom.^[7]

Mixed martial arts record

References

External links

• Professional MMA record for Rasul Mirzaev from Sherdog