{"id":1161,"date":"2025-07-17T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1161\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:24:08","slug":"timur-khizriev-pfl-aware-of-situation-after-russian-allegedly-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1161\/","title":{"rendered":"Timur Khizriev: PFL &#8216;aware of situation&#8217; after Russian allegedly shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Professional Fighters League says it is &#8220;aware of the situation concerning Timur Khizriev&#8221; after a video posted online appears to show the Russian featherweight champion being shot multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The footage shows Khizriev, 29, being attacked by two gunmen as he exited his car in Makhachkala, Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite being shot, Khizriev grapples with one while the other fires at close range, before escaping further harm by fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Khizriev is in stable condition, according to Russian media reports, but suffered numerous injuries to the shoulder, hand, and chest, and is undergoing surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;PFL is aware of the situation concerning Timur Khizriev, and remain in close touch with his representatives,&#8221; the mixed-martial arts promotion said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our thoughts are with him and his family during this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Khizriev has won the first 18 fights of his career and beat Britain&#8217;s Brendan Loughnane in November to win the PFL&#8217;s featherweight tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Professional Fighters League says it is &#8220;aware of the situation concerning Timur Khizriev&#8221; after a video posted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}