{"id":12662,"date":"2025-07-22T05:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12662\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:52:11","slug":"shamil-gasanov-aims-to-become-dagestans-next-one-world-champion-i-always-wanted-to-be-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12662\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamil Gasanov aims to become Dagestan’s next ONE World Champion: “I always wanted to be the best”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shamil Gasanov believes his village upbringing forged the mentality needed to capture MMA gold. The Russian is ready to prove a wrestler from remote Dagestan can achieve worldwide greatness.<\/p>\n

\"Shamil<\/p>\n

The third-ranked featherweight rematches Garry Tonon<\/a> at ONE Fight Night 34<\/a> on Friday, August 1, inside Lumpinee Stadium at Bangkok, Thailand. The bout comes after Gasanov defeated Martin Nguyen, marking his fourth consecutive victory since Tonon submitted him.<\/p>\n

Gasanov grew up in a remote village where accountability was inescapable. Following his father into wrestling, he learned missing training meant facing community scrutiny. This environment forged an unbreakable work ethic.<\/p>\n

At 17, he moved to study medicine but discovered submission grappling. The aspiring fighter dropped out to pursue MMA full-time, taking his first professional fight at 18. Early years required sleeping in unheated gyms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cobra\u201d found immediate success, recording first-round stoppages in his first six bouts. His motivation stemmed from wanting to represent his village, which lacked champions neighboring communities produced. Putting his hometown on the map became his driving force.<\/p>\n

In any case, his pursuit traces back to childhood wrestling lessons. The village taught him mediocrity wasn\u2019t acceptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always wanted to be the best. I had to train again and again,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shamil Gasanov believes his village upbringing forged the mentality needed to capture MMA gold. The Russian is ready…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,14470,785,14471,14472,14473,85],"class_list":["post-12662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-garry-tonon","tag-mma","tag-one-champ","tag-one-fight-night-34","tag-shamil-gasanov","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662","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=12662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}