Volk Han
| Magomedkhan Gamzatkhanov Магомедхан Гамзатханов |
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| Born |
April 15, 1961 Anchih, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Other names | Volk Han ("Wolf Khan") |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Ethnicity | Avar |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight | 235 lb (107 kg; 16.8 st) |
| Division | Heavyweight |
| Style | Sambo, Shoot wrestling |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of | Tula, Russia |
| Team | Russian Top Team RusFighters Sport Club |
| Years active | 1991-2001, 2012 |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 29 |
| Wins | 21 |
| By knockout | 1 |
| By submission | 10 |
| By decision | 3 |
| Unknown | 7 |
| Losses | 8 |
| By knockout | 2 |
| By submission | 3 |
| By decision | 2 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
Magomedkhan Amanulayevich Gamzatkhanov (Russian: Магомедха́н Аманула́евич Гамзатха́нов; born April 15, 1961 in Anchih, Dagestan), better known by his alias Volk Han (Волк-хан), is a Dagestani-born Russian professional wrestler and later a mixed martial artist renowned for his technical mastery of sambo. He would go on to represent Russia in the Russian RINGS team with Fedor Emelianenko, Andrei Kopylov, Nikolai Zuyev and Mikhail Ilyukhin.
In 1979, Gamzatkhanov began training with five-time world champion in freestyle wrestling Ali Aliyev in the city of Tula. In 1981, he began his two-year service in the USSR military, after which he began training sambo with Victor Lysenko. In 1984, Gamzatkhanov attended the Police Academy in Moscow. Gamzatkhanov signed a contract with Japanese shoot-style wrestling promotion Fighting Network Rings in 1991.
After years of competing in professional wrestling, Han switched to mixed martial arts when RINGS adopted this format in 2000. This decision was very anticipated, despite Han's advanced age, due to his world class sambo skills. After making a winning debut against RINGS rookie Yasuhito Namekawa, Volk's skills were proven further against American wrestler and Mark Coleman's teammate Branden Lee Hinkle, 12 years his junior. Though Hinkle was able to take Han down and control him, the Russian grappler locked a tight triangle armbar at the end of the first round and made him tap out. Han got a matchup closer in age and experience against Olympic alumni Zaza Tkeshelashvili in a special Russia vs Georgia fight, but again Han won by submission.
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