In 2025, the next wave of surging European prospects and contenders has already begun to make their way onto the biggest stage in mixed martial arts. Coming all the way from Chechnya, these young ...

Arman Tsarukyan believes the UFC roster will be filled with Dagestani and Chechen fighters if they are signed on merit.

Maskhadov's fighters benefited from Soviet arms depots. When Chechnya declared independence, Dudayev's forces captured roughly 80 percent of Soviet military equipment in the republic, an estimated ...