Volk Han
Magomedkhan Amanulayevich Gamzatkhanov (Russian: Магомедха́н Аманула́евич Гамзатха́нов; born April 15, 1961), is a Russian retired mixed martial artist, professional wrestler, sambo wrestler and former military officer of Avar descent. Gamzatkhanov is better known by his ringname Volk Han (Russian: Волк-хан, Japanese: ヴォルク・ハン) and is renowned for his technical mastery of sambo.
| Magomedkhan Gamzatkhanov Магомедхан Гамзатханов | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 15, 1961 Anchik, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Other names | Volk Han |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight | 235 lb (107 kg; 16.8 st) |
| Division | Heavyweight |
| Style | Sambo |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of | Tula, Russia |
| Team | Russian Top Team RusFighters Sport Club |
| Years active | Professional Wrestling: 1991–1994, 1995–1999, 2001 MMA: 1995–1999, 2000–2001, 2012 |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 30 |
| Wins | 22 |
| By knockout | 1 |
| By submission | 11 |
| By decision | 3 |
| Unknown | 7 |
| Losses | 8 |
| By knockout | 2 |
| By submission | 3 |
| By decision | 2 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Notable students | Fedor Emelianenko, Karimula Barkalaev |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
Gamzatkhanov represented Russia on the Russian Fighting Network RINGS team with Fedor Emelianenko, Andrei Kopylov, Nikolai Zouev and Mikhail Ilyukhin. In the early 1990s Han opened his own martial arts academy, which taught a derivative of combat sambo with special emphasis on flying and spinning joint locks and compression locks applied to upper and lower extremities.
During his tenure in RINGS, Han was considered the promotion's top foreign star and impacted the popularity of martial art Sambo's popularity in Japan. According to MMA ranking system portal Fight Matrix, Magomedkhan Gamzatkhanov was ranked the #10 Heavyweight of 1997.