“I'm going to go nick on points”: Islam Dulatov will regret the UFC door with Knockout

If you will create UFC, you have to fight spectacularly – and win. Islam Dulatov fulfills these requirements. The 26-year-old will also capture a style, but the debut of the Düsseldorfer is nevertheless atypical for newcomers in the elite organization.

Athlete from Germany -Germany -is athlete in the Champions League of martial arts. With Islam Dulatov, a Düsseldorf MMA fighter is now standing before his big debut in the royal class. He meets the American Adam Fugitt at UFC 318 (Sunday from 0.15 a.m./DAZN) in New Orleans. The 26-year-old will be one of his route despite the greatest possible stage Nick

“I will go into battle, be more sophisticated and calmer,” says Dulatov. However, one of his aggressiveness Werer -but hold. That only brought him in the UFC. He was able to enter all of his eleven siege prematurely. So the last time at the Dana White Conkur in October 2024, when he went to the Brazilian Vanilto Antunes in the first round rang. “I will dab three rounds with my opponent and try to get the thing on points,” adds Dulatov, who is a motto FOGTO FOGTO, points.

If you will create UFC, you have to fight spectacularly – and win. Dulatov fulfills these requirements, like many before him. However, his start is atypical for newcomers in the elite organization. With Fugitt (balance 10 siege, 4 defeats), Dulatov gets right at the beginning. “This is a solid boy,” emphasizes the Düsseldorf district of Rath Großktentendulatov. “He is Nick the worst, but also not a champion. Something in between.

Dulatov is at a PPV event, also a big event of the UFC. “For me, the kind of appreciation” “other Bekorens much lighter opponents at the start. I stand up to be a big fight card. Be.”

And a lot for this next step in his career Dulatov. In Louisiana he hates his team, a specialist for blow and one for the floor fight. He has been preparing for months in the United States in the American top team fitness studio. “The best preparation of his life,” he says. “I prepared myself with the best of the world, like Marvin Vettori, Abus Magomedov or Johnny Eblen.

“I have a lot to do to the surrounding area”

Dulatov lives in New Orleans for the Für-Staren-Hotel not placed in the UFC. He rented a house for and and his entourage. The hostel costs several thousand dollars. Without its other houses in Germany, like his own fashion brand, Nick would be possible. The pure professional athlete Islam Dulatov could exist, says Dulatov, he wanted to imagine. “I have a lot to do to the surrounding area. The Nick would be possible with fight Alerin.”

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So the 26-year-old Nick cannot realize that he has arrived in the absolute elite of sport. “I get so much from the euphoria in Germany here. Pure self -confidence – this is also in addition to his explosiveness, one of the great strengths of Islam Dulatov.” I have always been mentally strong, “he says. Many would only be talking about early victories, he also put it over.” That makes it natural and was with your head: I prove Mirmymer Probst that I have to do it.