Biography(references)In 1993, he fled as a refugee with his family to his mother's native Uzbekistan due to the ongoing Tajik civil war, and finally, in 2019, he was granted Uzbek citizenship. Muradov was forced to drop out of school and start working at the age of 15 to provide for his family after his father got involved in a car accident that left him permanently disabled. At the age of 17, he began his successful combat sambo career, and because of that, he earned a well-paid job as a security guard in Russian Siberia. Muradov returned to Uzbekistan, and eventually managed to make enough money from competing in combat sambo to be able to buy the apartment back. He started training Muay Thai and MMA in Prague under the tutelage of Petr Kníže, who allowed Muradov to train and sleep in his gym for free and also helped him get a more comfortable job as a bouncer.
Fighter Trivia(references)A professional MMA competitor since 2012, Muradov is both the first Tajik-born and Uzbek UFC fighter, and the world's first mixed martial artist signed by Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s The Money Team. Besides his native Uzbek, Muradov speaks Czech, Russian and English and is conversational in Polish and Arabic. During his early time in Prague, Muradov appeared in autoerotic porn productions and solo softcore porn photo shoots under the stage name "Akhmed Virt" for William Higgins' gay pornographic production company.
Awards & Accolades
UFC: Performance of the Night (Two times) vs. Trevor Smith and Andrew Sanchez
X FIGHT NIGHTS: XFN Middleweight Championship (One time). One successful title defense
X FIGHT NIGHTS: One successful title defense
X FIGHT NIGHTS: Interim XFN Middleweight Championship (One time)
X FIGHT NIGHTS: One successful title defense
World Kickboxing Network: WKN MMA International Middleweight Championship (One time)
Caveam: Caveam National Middleweight Championship (Champion of Caveam) (One time)
World Association of Sporting Organizations: WASO MMA European Middleweight Championship (One time)
Uzbekistan Kickboxing Federation: Junior National K-1 Kickboxing Champion (One time)
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