In a cramped sunlit living room, a gathering of Dagestan family members are in morning prayers. Bowing and kneeling quietly, the spiritual solemnity of their sacred practice is a silent strength observed.
-
-
-
February 26th, 2022. In the octagon, a catchweight battle is underway between a focused Islam Makhachev and a confident Bobby Green. The first round starts cautiously then a powerful takedown by Islam. The grappling turns to wrestling as Green struggles to get free of Islam’s smothering hold on him. Islam works for a submission but can’t find the positioning. Sitting atop Bobby he starts pounding. He somehow gets Green onto his stomach looking for a choke possibility but it turns into a fierce ground and pound. Islam keeps hitting and hitting and hitting.
The fight is stopped before Green gets seriously damaged. First round technical knockout.
-
A drone wanders through the sharp, craggy mountains of Dagestan. Hanging off the side of a majestic mass of rock at an elevation of 2300 meters, the small huddled village of Burshi, population of a little over two hundred. Simple homes built of stone connected by rocky footpaths with emerald fields lying lazily below and children running from house to house, family dogs chasing after.
-
In a small ramshackle gym, a village elder is coaching a couple of ten-year-old boys in a makeshift boxing ring. An older teenager is hitting a speed bag with surety and over in a brightly lit corner, a young man is on a taped up heavy bag. A quiet place with only the sounds of leather hitting leather and bodies hitting bodies. A sense of purpose and a scene of poignancy high up in the bare North Caucasus mountains.
-
This is the story, of Islam Makhachev


#UFC #MMA #Boxing
Family Friendly PG

#UFC #MMA #Boxing
Family Friendly PG