{"id":408437,"date":"2026-01-12T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408437\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:26:07","slug":"15-year-old-mma-champion-dies-in-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408437\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old MMA champion dies in conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A tragic incident shook Kulyab, Tajikistan, as 15-year-old MMA world and national champion Mohammadali Sadulloyev lost his life during a teenage conflict, local media reported. <\/p>\n<p>The confrontation occurred on the night of January 11\u201312 at a computer club in the city. Sadulloyev was stabbed in the chest and died at the scene. Two other teenagers sustained injuries of varying severity and were hospitalized, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/sport\/26127121\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TASS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/azerbaijan-extradites-tajik-fraud-suspect-to-tajikistan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tajikistan<\/a> Mixed Martial Arts Federation and Sadulloyev\u2019s coach, Kamol Valiyev, confirmed the news. Law enforcement authorities have detained two individuals and are conducting an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Sadulloyev had a remarkable career for his age, winning the world youth MMA championship in 2024 and earning a gold medal at the Tajikistan national championship in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tragic incident shook Kulyab, Tajikistan, as 15-year-old MMA world and national champion Mohammadali Sadulloyev lost his life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,216322,785,216321,216324,85,216323],"class_list":{"0":"post-408437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-kulyab","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-mma-champion-dies","14":"tag-mohammadali-sadulloyev","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tajikistan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408437","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=408437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}