Blagoy Ivanov is a Bulgarian Sambo wrestler and the 2008 world champion from St. Petersburg. Rich is also a former national judo player and became a Balkan youth champion in 2003. He tried to get a place in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but only won the seventh place and did not participate in the Olympics, which made him turn to the career of mixed martial arts. According to the global-mma.com score, he is ranked 8th in the world (this score does not include UFC fighters).
Sambo career
The most striking part of Blagoi Ivanov’s career is believed to be his victory over four-time World Fighting Sambo champion Fedo Emilenko in the semi-finals of the 2008 World Championships in Russia, September 16 Day (the next day Bagata also defeated the Germans). Janos Stefan team in the final). Everyone thinks that Emilia Nenko is the absolute darling, because they met in the Russian Presidents Cup in January of the same year, and the Russian veteran won the game.
MMA career
Ivanov started his mixed martial arts career in Bulgaria, achieved 2 wins and 1 loss without confirming the winner, and then joined the world victory road with a three-match contract. His first game was in the Sengoku 9 games. He defeated Pride veteran Kazuyuki Fujita by a unanimous decision in the game, despite his broken arms in the game.
In the next game, Blagoi will have to play against Fedor’s brother Alexander Emilenko, but due to a broken arm, he cannot recover and enter the ring.
The next match of Bagata’s MMA ring will be held in Sofia against European heavyweight fighting champion Svyatoslav Zakhariev. The good guy won, and his opponent wanted a rematch after the game, and he got a promise.
Blagoy Ivanov is looking for several stronger competitors who can prepare for the real test. After that, he went to the United States and received training in Las Vegas.
Mixed martial arts
On 26, 2015, Ivanov announced the signing of the Bellato Military Network. He made his debut against William Penn on April XNUMX and won the first round with TKO.
In the quarterfinals of Bellat 52, Bagata was originally scheduled to face Brazil’s Thiago Santos on January 2, 35, but his opponent was not allowed to travel abroad, so he was replaced by Zach Janssen. The Bulgarian defeated Jansen with a technical serve and blocked his guillotine in the second round. However, in the first round, our Triple Treasure Boxing champion showed excellent boxing skills, speed and accuracy, which made the opponent’s blood veins strong. Jensen tried to be aggressive, and even his judges thought the first round was good for him. Even with the sound of the gong in the second round, Bagata applied to him for an American, but Zach escaped. In the second round, he could not do anything about the Bulgarian guillotine in XNUMX minutes. The referee didn’t even have time to make a technical decision after the referee’s penalty. .
On November 24, 2011, Ivanov defeated Rico Rodriguez in three rounds of TKO.
this matter
On the morning of August 26, 2012, Bagata and his two friends were attacked by six men with criminal records in a bar in Sofia. His heart was injured. After 2013 hours of surgery and intensive treatment at Pirogovskaya Hospital, Blagoy was resurrected after many people thought he would not survive. He began to follow a strict treatment regimen, and most doctors said that he may have difficulty walking after a long period of unconsciousness, and he did not have problems entering the ring. This is the end of his sports career. This is not Bagata’s idea. He gradually resumed training and announced his intention to return to MMA in XNUMX.
Back to mixed martial arts
On the 21st of 13, 2013, after a lapse of seven months, Bagata entered the cage again and defeated Manny Lara in the first round with obedience. His next game is against Keith Bell a month later. Ivanov was knocked down at the beginning of the battle, but managed to recover and win in a painful way. Both games were played in the light heavyweight competition, because Blagoi lost a lot of weight during his hospitalization.
In 116, 2014, he returned to the heavyweight competition, and Rich Hale lost the game by unanimous decision as his first opponent. In the semi-finals, Belator 17 Blagoy Ivanov was placed in the first round to Lavar Johnson to win, but the final was placed in the second round to Alexander Volkov on October 2014, equalizing the first loss in the professional world.
World War Series (WSOF)
On January 24, 2015, Bagata signed a contract with WSOF. On his debut, he and Smeliano Rama had a heavyweight championship battle and defeated him in the third round by surrender. Therefore, Blagoy Ivanov is currently the holder of the heavyweight belt of the World Fighting Series.
