Shavkat Rakhmonov is a true phenomenon in the world of mixed martial arts. At the age of 18, he became the champion of Kazakhstan, the champion of Asia and the world champion. Having collected all the scattering of titles under the auspices of WMMA, he went professional and began to stamp out one victory after another. Now Shavkat is already in the UFC, where he worthily represents his country and the M-1 Global organization, of which he is the champion.
Today we will go to 2016, to Baku, where the international tournament in mixed martial arts M-1 Challenge 67 was held. Shavkat was only 19 years old at that time and he had an impeccable record of 5 victories in a row.
But his opponent was exactly twice as old and at the same time very experienced and extremely dangerous. He was a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, the champion of the Storm Samurai organization, Brazilian Marcelo Brito. This seasoned wolf was remembered by Russian viewers for his tough five-round battle with Murad Abdullaev. In his career, he beat such UFC and Pride veterans as Gleison Thibault and Hiromitsu Kanehara, and no one, ever in his entire long career, managed to win against Marcelo ahead of schedule. The audience was in for a real confrontation between youth and experience.

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