The killer champion will strive to become a Honored Master of Sports of Russia

In Alma-Ata, March 31 , Mirzaev returned to a large sport after an almost two-year break . The Dagestan, a unanimous decision of the judges defeated the local fighter Yerzhan Esktanov.

“Now his speeches will be held in mixed martial arts and sambo combat,” athlete Kamil Gadzhiev said to Championat.com . “In the last three years, Rasul has achieved the greatest successes in sambo. He won the Russian championship, but, unfortunately, spoke only at the world championship, and did not get to the second.

Now he is faced with the task of gaining the required number of points in order to fulfill the standard of the Honored Master of Sports. In May, there will be a European championship in sambo, and Rasul will go to preparatory fees for this tournament in the Russian national team. And most likely, he will not be able to combine them with professional fights. Therefore, in MMA we will see Rasul only in the summer or early autumn. "

Mirzaev returned to amateur sport in February this year at the Russian Combat Sambo Championship in Gubkin (Belgorod region), where he won two contractions , but did not fall among the winners.

Recall that during the conflict in mid -August 2011, in the center of Moscow near the Garage nightclub, Mirzaev hit the student Ivan Agafonov, who after that was hospitalized and died a few days later, not coming into consciousness.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow on November 27, 2012 sentenced Mirzaev to two years of restriction of freedom, finding him guilty of causing death by negligence and freeing the athlete from custody in the courtroom.