Habib Nur Mammadov ... To lose your father and the world championship becomes meaningless!

Do not wait for a less brave opponent

And raise your forehead like ours. "

(South Moon - Ahmed Bakhit)

For the 29th time, Dagestan Muslim champion Habib Nur Mammadov has won the UFC Martial Arts Championship, which is the least martial arts sport in terms of safety laws.

Two people enter the eight-pillar ring and do not leave it until one of them eliminates the other, whether with a punch that is enough to knock him to the ground, or subject him as suffocating him to surrender or loss of consciousness, and loss of consciousness was the way that Gastin Gitchi defeated the fighter who challenged Habib to the title The World Lightweight Championship on the evening of Saturday 24 October in Abu Dhabi, bringing Habib to his 29th victory in his record that does not contain a single loss.

Habib leaves his opponent unconscious and then goes down to his knees, you think that he will be prostrate as usual after each victory, but this time he is bursting into tears for his father and his coach at the same time, who died last May after his health deteriorated due to his infection with the Corona virus, to make Habib His tears from the eyes of the cameras expose his body, which is cramping from the intensity of crying, and because this sport is the fiercest in the world, the bloodshed in it is a normal thing, you may find a player bleeding from his eyes and his nose during the match without paying attention to it, but the bleeding of tears is a different matter this time , In all his matches, Habib used to go to his father and coach at this time to embrace him after the victory, but this time Habib stands and tears his gloves while announcing his crowning as world champion, in reference to his retirement: “Today is my last day in this game, I will not be able to do it again Without my father!

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Habib's relationship with his father, Abd al-Manab Nur Muhammadov, the former Dagestani military trainer, was an exceptional relationship between a father and his son. Habib, as he once stated, was only to become a world champion thanks to the presence of this father in his life, since Habib’s childhood, his father Abdul Manab had noticed that his son possessed activity A little plus, the reporter once asked him: “What were you doing when you wanted to punish him?” And Abdul Manab replies: “Every time Habib made a mistake that would be punished, he would run to his grandmother and confess to her everything he did, and she always defended him and survived. By his act, Abd al-Manab decided to deal with his son's overactive activity as an advantage that he could benefit from, so he decided from an early age to begin exposing him to arduous combat training, so that on one occasion he brought him a wild bear to wrestle and train to drop it on the ground.

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(World martial arts contest champion Habib Nur Mammadov wrestling with a bear as a child)

Habib's interest in combat games started from the age of six as a result of watching students train in martial arts in the gymnasium established by his father on the ground floor of their two-story home, and Habib began his journey in training wrestling until the age of fifteen, and then to judo until seventeen Then to the sambo fighting game, according to Habib, moving from each game to another was difficult, but his father wanted him to get used to all kinds of fighting.

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Habib appeared for the first time in the "MMA" mixed martial arts game in September 2008, and he drew attention after winning four wins in less than a month until he became champion of the "Atrium" Cup in September of the same year after defeating his opponents. The three, and Habib continued his winning record until his transfer to the UFC Lightweight Ultimate Fighting Championship, and nothing new happened, as Habib continued to reap successive victories without suffering a single defeat until he reached his twenty-sixth victory in April 2018 over his opponent Al Yaquinta by decision. Referees after the end of the five rounds of the match, then defending his title against Conor McGregor, the popular Irish hero, who had shown disrespect to Habib and his family in Las Vegas days before the match that brought them together, and Habib went out before that to the Las Vegas fans, most of whom support MacGregor, saying:

"Thank God, I know that you do not like this word, and tomorrow I will smash your boy's face." Indeed, Habib tore up McGregor in three rounds before defeating him in the fourth round by subjugating him to score his twenty-seventh victory without defeat, then his twenty-eighth victory, defending his title once Another in September 2019 in Abu Dhabi against Dustin Poirier in only three rounds of subjugation, and he celebrates as usual in the arms of his father and his coach, then his twenty-ninth victory on October 24 against Jaysten Gitchi in only two rounds of submission as well, and after his victory Habib cried his hot crying that Cameras and eyes recorded him, tearing his glove as he was crowned world champion, saying: “For the first time I came here without my father. He spoke with my mother for the past three days and she said to me that you should not play without your father, and I promised her that this is the last time, and if I promised, I must Avi ".

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It was expected for Habib not to retire before reaching the 30: 0 victory, but the retirement came at this time in loyalty to his mother and an expression from him that everything that could be achieved in the absence of his father is worth nothing. Habib was the one who stood a year before his father’s death in front of cameras and reporters. He asks them to ask him about his father: "Let's talk about my father. I love talking about him. You guys have no idea how much I love my father."

“Habib Nur Mammadov” (right) with his father, “Abd al-Munab Nur Mammadov”

One of the most striking questions when realizing the popularity of martial arts, and the people's fascination with their matches in which blood is shed, is thinking about the nature of violence in humans, and whether a person has an innate tendency to violence, although the scientific and philosophical answer to this question is neither simple nor Directly, many scientists tend to have violent tendencies and instincts in various living races in order to preserve the species and protect private resources (5), including researcher David Carrier, who participated in a study published in the journal "Experimental Biology" that suggests that martial arts were the cause of The process of human hand evolution, Carrier says of the idea of ​​aggressive tendencies in humans:

"I think that there is great opposition to this idea, especially among academics. At a certain stage, some people believe that humans are inherently aggressive beings by nature, and I personally think this approach. As for those trying to prove to us that we do not have a specific nature, they are in fact not helping In reaching a conclusion, I think we would be better off if we faced the truth, which is that we carry between our wings those feelings, which sometimes direct us towards acting in a violent way. I think that if we acknowledge this, we will be more able to prevent violence in the future.

So perhaps we can understand the eagerness of people to watch combat games as a kind of safe release from the deep-seated instincts of violence that civilization cultivated. We now live in civilized societies that view violence with great contempt, so those who feel in themselves an inclination to violence in combat games may find an unparalleled experience. It has the right to liberate these feelings in a safe way, as martial arts work to besiege this violence inside a cage of eight corners, so that violence is only permissible inside it.

Anyone with a passing look at this type of violent games may see the extent of their brutality, barbarism and randomness, but beneath this surface, there are complex mechanisms and skills that contribute to the superiority of one party over the other without this superiority being based only on the initial physical strength, and behind each victory there are thousands. Hours of training, learning, diet and many strategies, and in front of these qualities, what happens is a very complex and technical thing.

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Behind this consideration, we can see the extent of Habib Nur Mammadov's pure artistic ability in this game, as we said earlier that the most famous scene in the scenes of this game is the scene of blood and swelling of the face and its blueness as a result of severe beating, it is very rare to find one picture of the hero. Dagestani Habib Nur Mammadov has a bloody or swollen face on his face, but in many matches, Habib stands upon announcing his victory as if he just got out of his bathroom before putting on his clothes and going to a job interview, and not like someone who just finished his fight in the World Championship final.

Habib's fighting abilities and his skills in pressing the opponent, evading him and receiving the fewest hits possible are exceptional and extremely superior skills, although many expected that Habib would lose his ability to remain steadfast and focus at this level in his first match after the death of his father, and this is because clarity of mind is the most important tools of a fighter. In that game and his capital, but Habib proved at that time also that his abilities are far away from any potential opponent in the whole martial arts game, before he sends his last message: (7)

 I know one thing I want from UFC, Tuesday, you have to put me on the list of best lightweight fighter in its history because I deserve it.

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