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Brett Okamoto
The only time Baisangur Susurkaev He didn’t have a smile on his face two weeks ago there was a few moments on Tuesday night in Las Vegas – when his team tried to tell him that he was not allowed to eat steak.
Susurkaev has just scored the Knockout of the first round on “Dana Whiten Series Series” and earned the UFC contract. Of course, he was in the mood to celebrate, so he went straight from UFC Apex in Herb & Rie Steakhouse. But when the waiter came to take Susurka’s order, his team reminded him that UFC furtively worked that he preferred him on Saturday – four days later.
“I told him he should probably order a salmon,” said ESPN’s Susuraev manager, Jamie Gall, ESPN said this week. “If UFC for fighting, he had to inflict weight on Friday,” OK, give him steak, but neither salt, no butter, not even use the oil. “
But bile still feels bad. A 24-year-old from Chechnya in Russia, who worked as a food delivery driver for less than a month, just achieved his dream about signing with UFC, and everything he wanted was a real steak.
Gall called on his business partner, Dave MartinWho was in contact with UFCOM all night about the potential opening on the UFC 319 tab and requested an update. The UFC did not answer his recent messages, Martin said bile and was delayed.
“Let him eat,” Martin admitted.
Gall found a waiter and ordered all that – butter, salt. Drop on the line of fries.
But when the team returned to the Palace hotel, after a meal, Martin called back. UFC had a fight for Susurka’s Chicago.
In the morning on Tuesday, 12. August, Susurkaev was a fighter fighter with a chance, who lives and training on southern Florida that only fought only twice in the last three years. Four days later, he went to octoose in front of the United Center sold in the second round in the second round to become the first person to become the first person who won the “series of candidates” and debut in UFC in the UFC of the same week. “I didn’t get excited for the guy for so long,” the whole whole day was declared after the victory “DVCS” Susurkaev.
Susurkaev’s Run will decrease as one of the most important weeks in the UFC history. Here are the detail behind them showing how Susurkaev came to this moment and contextualizes how impressive it is.
Tuesday, 5. August
Susurkaev almost gave up MMA many times in the last two years in the last two years.
He took the risk and moved to the USA from Chechnya 2023. year, after several of his VMA sponsors rejected from business due to economic changes that result from war Russian-Ukraine.
“When the war began, there were less money investment in the fight,” Susurka’s ESPN said. “So it was for me, ‘will I stay and find a job or will I try?” It was my best friend who told me I had to do it. After hearing his words, I knew I had to try. “
Susurkaev and his senior brother, Tamerlan, former professional fighter, traveled to the United States and began training in Kill Cliff MMA. Tamerlan was at first he should not go to the United States, but he decided that he had to be in his brother of his coach, just as he was in Chechnya.
When two had enough money, they lived in a hotel across from the gym in the gym at Deerfield Beach, Florida. When the money went short, they slept in a car in the hotel parking or one of the Lounge chairs by the hotel’s pool.
Susurka’s talent was immediately clean. Kill Cliff is home to some of the best fighters in the world, including former champions Cameroon Usman, Robbie Lavler and Rashad EvansAnd Susurkaev mixed in the mats in the mat. There was a time to spare with another median weight in Kill Cliff, he returned to his hotel, played UFC video game and recognized the face of the fighter he just rolled over.
“I’m not watching the fight,” Susuraev said. “So we’d go to choose our players (in video game) and I would say,” Who is it? I slept with him today. Who is this guy? “
The question he ran was a lack of fighting. Gall and its partners on the MAG agency fought to find their options. Between 2024. And the first half of 2025. Susurkaev only fought twice – in the promotion of Las Vegas Borrokin Inaugural Event and Fury FC.
Susurkaev said again to leave his dream again because of lack of work, even packing his bags to go on several occasions. His team saw him strive for him.
“He was great at the gym, but you could say that he was fighting in life,” Lowler said ESPN. “I wouldn’t be in practice. I’d ask where he was, and I couldn’t ask him that, because I didn’t fight him, and I wasn’t fighting and I wasn’t sure he was ever easy.
His managerial team tried and failed to provide him at this year’s “Day White series of candidates” until UFC is reached. August asked if Susurka is available to fill in the middle category that pulled 12. August. The weather was perfect. Susurqaev spent last month in California as a major partner for sparring for Star and Chechen Khamzat ChimaevSo he was in combating formation.
Tuesday, 12. August
The first week of the 9 “DVCS” season will be reduced as one of the worst episodes in the history of the series. UFC fitted five fights and assigned only two contracts, at least any episode in more than three years.
The light place was Susurkaev, who scored walking, front blow knockout three minutes in the first round.
“My guy,” Beli told Susuraevo, because at the end of the show announced Susurka’s contract. “You are an absolute killer. I love everything about you. See you (in UFC) very quickly.”
As white spoke, Susurkaev held four fingers on his right hand, signaling four days while in Chicago not in Chicago. Said bile before the event was planning to earn a contract and fight on the same card like Chimaev, who was challenging Dricus du Pliing for medium quality championship in the main event. He was so unfavorable because of the fight on the card that he refused to sign the Nevada Athletic Commission, which limits training and competition at least seven days after a sanctioned event on medical medical recovery. He eventually signed, and the suspension gave up.
Susurkaev was already scheduled to be in Chicago to chima on Chimaev, so before any of it. Chimaev met in Chechnya in 2022. years and shared the training room with him that year. The others were in contact and when Chimaev decided to hold the final month of his Camp UFC 319 in Huntington Beach, California, called Susurka’s to join him.
“He’s a great motivation for me and everything in Chechnya,” Susurka said. “In Russia, if you fight for UFC, you are a superstar. And he reached an amazing level. I saw it with him and it became my dream.”
UFC informed Susurkaeva to book it UFC and the same evening he kicked out Murtaz Talha In the first round with a punch in the liver. He verbally agreed to make his UFC Debiters four days later against the opponent to determine. Did not find out that it would be against a colleague of a newcomer Eric Nolan Until Wednesday morning, on his flight in Chicago.
Wednesday, 13. August
Susurkaev reblogged with his sparring partner, Chimaev, at UFC 319 Fighter Hotel in Chicago, where two Chechen found themselves in the center of attention.
“It was very strange to me,” Susuraev admitted. “There were cameras every minute, you know? I was ready for everything when there was a fight, but not to be familiar. The guys wanted pictures with me. It was great, great attention.”
Chimaev called Susurka’s to his room that evening to offer his congratulations – and his credit card. The UFC added Susurka’s next day to his news line, and Chimaev wanted it to look good.
“He said,” Go to the store and buy everything you want, “Susurka said.
By the end of the night, Susurkaev had a new $ 8,000 wardrobe. Chimaev even borrowed his design clock, as a final touch of the news conference.
“All of my life, I’ve never had more than $ 100, $ 200 clothes,” Susurka said said. “I felt like I was rich I’m going out with you clothes.”
Saturday, 16. August
Despite the left-handed meal on Tuesday night, Susurkaev took weight on Friday morning, and his first walk to UFC Octagon on Saturday night played as a extended celebration. He smiled everything from the tunnel to the octagon – and continued to smile after the fight begins. It was impossible to miss his senior brother, Tamerlan, next to his side to enter, because he literally jumped into the air.
“I couldn’t believe,” Tamerlan said. “I couldn’t believe it was real. We felt like we were living in Playstation game. It was too much. I couldn’t even introduce it.”
Susurkaev filed Nolan in the second round to earn a victory in his first report in his career. His possessory interview in octagon with Joe Rogan was broadcast live on the ESPN and was observed more than 100,000 times at Youtube. Later that evening Chimaev was dominated by Du Plessis to become a UFC champion. It’s hard to say that they will ever be a bigger evening for a Chechen MMA.
“In my village, it was crazy, crazy,” Susuraev said. “It’s like we won a war or something. So many people, meeting in fields, looking in big rooms. It’s good time for all of us in Chechnya.”
The early parallels between Chimaev and Susurkaevim is impossible to ignore. Chimaev has made his UFC on an island in Abu Dhabi in Abu Dhabi and won white time asking for sure to fight for 10 days. Susurkaev one was entered by doing the same in four days.
If you visit the Susurka’s Instagram page, its biography now reads, “Dana is a favorite fighter” and includes his record, 10-0. He changed the record before Entering UFC 319 because he was so sure he would win. Talent and belief have never been a problem of Susurka’s. And now, after one of the biggest weeks in the UFC history, the opportunity should not be either.
