The rise of the Kazakh Shavkat Rakhmonov (19-0) It continues, unstoppable, towards the highest levels. In Las Vegas, At WFC 310, With a large crowd of Kazakhs in the stands, he bypassed Ian Machado Gary (15-1) To break him undefeated and assert himself as one of the Great Faces of the UFC.
Bedouin already knows his way around: in 2025 he will fight with Bilal Muhammad (24-3) for the welterweight belt To confirm the strong presence in the current mixed martial arts. The two , in fact, met in the Octagon of WFC 310 in a pleasant face-to-face. I should have fought for the belt with him now, but Bilal was injured… And the Kazakh, instead of waiting, risked everything with Ian Gary.
“I went out and fought the bogeyman, and proved that he is a silly human being. I went out there with three weeks notice, I saved this event, I saved this undercard against the scariest guy in the division and I went out there and stopped almost everything, ” the Irishman announced after the match. And it is true that he took the fight to the decision (Rakhmanov broke the completion of the plenum) until he managed to submit it on two occasions. It was a brutal battle between two undefeated and ambitious gold. The level was very high.
I saved this billboard against the scariest guy in the Department
Shavkat Rakhmonov with Bilal Muhammad.
And the condition for forks, too. He did not lose his aura despite the fact that he could not finish Ian Machado Gary. He showed, quite simply, that he is deadly. Like Alex Pereira when, in Utah, he had to press to knock out the Kazakh junior Rountree, who always ended in the first or second round with the exception of two fights, Bilal Muhammad left more minutes for his studies for the future fight for the belt.
Future rematch with Ian Gary
“The most important thing for me is to achieve victory and I’m glad I won it,” Rakhmanov said after the fight at a press conference, knowing that ” the most important thing for me is to win Ian Machado will collide with Gary again in the cage. “We will continue to win, and if he continues to win, we will meet again,” he explained.
For me the most important thing is to get the victory and I’m glad I won it
But first, the belt. And with Bilal already recovering , everything points to the spring of 2025: “I am the number one contender for the title and I hope that we will face each other in April or May next year.”
