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Nov 14 on Sumo
World Sumo Challenge 1003
Bio
Vitaly Minakov was born in Bryansk, Russia on February 6th in 1985. He stands in at 6’ 2” tall and weighs in at 250 pounds. The Russian heavyweight has a blackbelt in Judo, is ranked as a Master of Sports in Wrestling, and is a 1st Grand Master in Sambo. Minakov won 4 gold medals at the Sambo World Championships, and another 4 gold medals in the Sambo Russian National Championships.
In 2010 Minakov made his MMA debut and three years later after going 12-0 he won the Bellator heavyweight title and since then has made one title defense and added 3 more victories to improve to 16-0 with 9 knockouts and 4 submissions.
