{"id":401,"date":"2025-07-16T09:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:26:15","slug":"mma-fighter-shot-with-five-bullets-not-in-life-threatening-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA fighter shot with five bullets, not in life-threatening condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            July 16, 2025 10:57<\/p>\n<p>                                            Share to:<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block MsoNormal\">Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Timur Khizriev was shot five times on Tuesday in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block MsoNormal\">Khizriev is the PFL series champion from last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block MsoNormal\">According to Russian media, the fighter Khizriev was shot as he got out of his car near a building in the capital of the Russian republic of Dagestan. He was hit by five bullets, but Khizriev is not in danger of dying. He is in hospital with multiple injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block MsoNormal\">According to Russian media, the weapon used in the shooting is a traumatic pistol. This is a firearm that usually fires rubber bullets or other less lethal cartridges designed for self-defense or crowd control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block MsoNormal\">The video shows the fighter fighting with one of the two attackers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block MsoNormal\">VIDEO:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"ru\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"gt-block\">\ud83d\udea8 In Makhachkala they shot PFL champion Timura Khizriev (18-0).<\/p>\n<p>Two men in masks guarded Timur in the yard of a residential house on Daniyalova Street. When he came out of the truck, the attackers opened fire. In the sportsman, 5 bullets hit the pistol. \u0425\u0438\u0437\u0440\u0438\u0435\u0432 \u0432 \u043e\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439, \u0436\u0438\u0432. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KnUN4NYRKX\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KnUN4NYRKX<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">\u2014 Vestnik MMA (@VestnikMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VestnikMMA\/status\/1945250810037743756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 16, 2025 10:57 Share to: Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Timur Khizriev was shot five times on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}