Zabit Magomedsharipov is coming to a hospital close to you.
The Russian fighter is among the most promising contenders within the UFC’s rising featherweight division, however he hasn’t competed in fairly a while. In reality, the final time battle followers noticed Magomedsharipov compete he knocked off Calvin Kattar in a Struggle of the Night time efficiency again in 2019. The victory pushed Zabit’s undefeated UFC report to 6-0.
Struggle followers have been ready for Magomedsharipov to return to the Octagon ever since, however he by no means made it again to the cage. Due partly to a difficulty with is immune system and total lack of drive to return to preventing, Zabit has been sidelined for nicely over two years.
Struggle followers got an indication of hope earlier this yr when it was revealed that Magomedsharipov was returning to training. Nonetheless, Zabit leaked some stunning information this previous week that he’s placing his preventing profession on maintain (but once more) to go into the medical discipline.
That is in accordance with Sportskeeda, who reported the information earlier this week. Magomedsharipov, who has been fairly quiet through the years relating to his future in MMA, posted the next message to Instagram as nicely:
“The medical world of Makhachkala will quickly have a brand new title,” he wrote.
Along with the put up, MMA reporter Ariel Helwani mentioned Zabit’s declining curiosity in preventing throughout a latest episode of The MMA Hour. In response to Helwani, faith performed a job in Magomedsharipov making a choice to step away from the battle sport.
“From what I used to be advised, he had nearly like this ethical spiritual dilemma that he was coping with,” reported Helwani (h/t Bloody Elbow). “He’s very spiritual and I believe he reached some extent the place he simply didn’t wanna do it anymore. Now, his brother fights and he corners his brother, which I believe may be very attention-grabbing, however clearly everyone seems to be completely different.”
Magomedsharipov, 31, produced an total MMA report of 18-1 from 2012-2019. After defeating the likes of Kattar, Jeremy Stephens, and Brandon Davis within the Octagon, the previous ACB featherweight champion was pegged a future title contender within the UFC’s 145-pound division. To not point out the 4 post-fight bonuses he received in simply six UFC appearances.
For now, we’ll by no means know what Magomedsharipov would have been capable of accomplish as he climbed the UFC featherweight rankings. No less than he’s doing one thing higher together with his life than inflicting ache for pay.
