Boxer Abdusalamov Magomed Magomedgadzhievich: biography, fights and interesting facts. Boxer Abdusalamov Magomed: biography

In the fall of 2013, boxer Magomed Abdusalamov miraculously escaped death due to an injury received in the ring. His wife Bakanai Abdusalamova told Roman Moon how she raised her husband to his feet.

Magomed Abdusalamov became famous in 2005, becoming the champion of Russia in the amateur ring. heavyweight. Not making it to the Olympics in Beijing, he turned professional. Over the next five years, the boxer had 17 fights and won all of them ahead of schedule. He fought very spectacularly, often taking risks and completely forgetting about defense.

At the beginning of 2013, Magomed rose to fourth place in the WBC rankings and began to be considered as a contender for a fight against world champion Vitali Klitschko. His new opponent was Cuban Mike Perez.

In the fight with Perez, Abdusalamov suffered his first defeat in the professional ring. Magomed received fractures of his left arm, nose, facial bone and a traumatic brain injury, which resulted in brain swelling and a blood clot. A few hours later, Abdusalamov was put into an induced coma. A few days later he suffered a stroke. It was reported that the boxer has almost no chance of survival, but he is alive and has already begun to speak.

Magomed Abdusalamov and his family live and recover in the USA. His treatment costs 20-30 thousand dollars a month, he was helped by promoter Andrei Ryabinsky, boxers Sergei Kovalev, Ruslan Provodnikov and others. Roman Moon called Bakanai Abdusalamova in New York and found out how her husband was returning to life.

“I immediately realized that something had gone wrong.” I know my Maga. He doesn’t sit down after a round when he feels good, he was even interviewed about it. And then he immediately sat down. At the same time, his face was shown - his eyes looked somehow lost. In general, everything was wrong that day. My 10-month-old daughter was crying and being capricious. They say that children feel everything.

Even in a regular job, you don’t know what will happen tomorrow. You can go out into the street and get hit by a car. But, of course, I was afraid for him. Once, when he was knocked down, I thought: “That’s it, let’s quit boxing. We don't need boxing anymore." I was in a position then, I cried a lot. But he would still have stayed boxing. His goal was to become a world champion. He had fans, everything was for their sake. He said he couldn't let them down.

He seemed to be doing well. I constantly asked him after fights: “Does your head hurt?” He said: nothing hurts, everything is fine. If I had known that this would happen to him, I would have locked him in a cave.

But I can’t say anything about this. Everything is done only through a lawyer.

I remember when he was in intensive care, we were not allowed to do anything, not even touch him. He was all swollen. There is ice all around, a blanket of ice underneath, and the ice itself. This was all necessary because his temperature rose after the operation.

I looked at him and didn’t believe that this was my Maga. Everything was like a dream. So many tubes, so many IVs on it. I didn’t understand how this could happen to my strong and handsome Magomed. I went to see him at the hospital along the highway, which he had not allowed me to go on before. But I had to. An hour there, an hour back.

Two months later we were transferred to rehabilitation center. There were fewer tubes, but he still didn't move. I remember what the room was like: he was lying there and three others. She showed him different colored papers and said: look at the red, the yellow, the green. I wanted to understand whether he was thinking, because the doctor said: he can’t think now, he has damage to the place that is responsible for thinking. I ask Magomed: what is two plus two? Three plus one? He answers, moves his fingers, barely, but shows. I show him to the doctor and say: “See, you said that he can’t think.” The doctor is surprised: “I can’t say anything.”

He had trouble opening his eyes. I opened one, but the second one does not open. As it turned out, he had fluid in his brain and head. When he opened his eyes, it was, of course, joy. The first time he quietly said something to me, I danced around his bed with joy. He looks at me and seems to show me: what’s wrong with you, are you crazy or what?

It seems that we were discharged in September 2014, I took him home. Then it turned out that in the first hospital where he was in intensive care, they developed bedsores on his tailbone. They treated me for a long time, then in November they had surgery. There was an infection inside – we spent another two months in the hospital. We have already been told that he almost has sepsis in his blood. I almost had a heart attack myself. Then she told him at home: “That’s it, Maga, that’s enough already.”

In November-December last year he became worse. The good thing is that when you call 911, they arrive in one minute. His blood pressure dropped, there was some kind of infection, he was in the intensive care unit, he was just fine. I sat, sobbed and thought: “We pulled you out, why again?” But we got through that too.

Now the children are on holiday from school, and my day usually starts at seven. I send the children to school with breakfast, then I start feeding him, washing him and shaving him. As a deputy of the People's Assembly, I have to have him shaved every day. I dress him, then the procedures, then to the rehabilitation center. There he works out, gets tired after about an hour, and goes home for lunch.

At 4 o'clock we have medicine. When the weather is good outside, we go out with the children to the park for a walk. I turn on the music, the children dance, he smiles, he likes to look at the children. In the evening, dinner and sleep.

At night I set alarms because I need to turn him every two to three hours to prevent bedsores from forming.

We live in the house of Magomed’s friend, Amin Suleymanov. He helps me lift Magomed out of bed and put him in the bathroom. He put him in the car in his arms and helped take him to the rehabilitation center. The nurse comes sometimes, but I couldn’t cope without his help. I couldn’t really speak English then either.

Right now Magomed is lying on the sofa in the living room, the children are lying on another sofa and watching a film. He can already hug and smile. But the right side of his body doesn’t work at all: neither his arm nor his leg. Even when he smiles, it is only on one side. Left-hand side works, but he cannot, for example, get up on his own. He can’t even sit on his own yet, I hold him. When we talk, he speaks very quietly. People around me don’t hear him, but I understand him, I’m used to it. We started eating quite recently, and before that he had a tube in his stomach, and they poured liquid food into it. He couldn't drink either.

I remember how I dreamed that he would open his eyes and move his finger. He couldn’t do anything then, but now he’s conscious, I’m constantly whispering something to him, the children are running around him, he’s smiling. For his situation, this is already great progress. The hardest part is, of course, behind us. But there is a lot of work ahead. I want him to get up and walk.

In America, when he was first admitted to the hospital, we ran after the doctors, asked what would happen, but they couldn’t even say whether he would live. They didn't want to take responsibility. Only one doctor said: “Be patient, wait, he is young and strong.” He was also unsure, but at least he supported us a little. Another doctor recently told me: “To be honest, he won’t walk.” I say: “Let’s remember that he shouldn’t have lived.”

The other day I asked another doctor: “When do you think he will move?” He says, “Let me show you a picture of his brain.” He showed that his left side was damaged, there was a gap where the brain died, there was fluid there. There is another zone, everything is dark there, the doctor said: “Let’s hope that it will brighten up and something will change.” I say: “Let's look not at the picture, but at him. A month ago and now – do you see the difference?” Doctor: “Yes, I see a difference, he looks better.” I say: “Then turn off your picture. Let's look at it."

Photo: Gettyimages.ru /Al Bello (1); personal archive of Bakanai Abdusalamova

Magomed Abdusalamov is a Russian athlete, boxer, who competed in the super heavyweight category from September 2008 to November 2013. After a fight with Cuban Mike Perez, he was injured with a hematoma in the brain and underwent surgery. On November 6, Magomed Abdusalamov officially ended his professional career.

Biography

In 1998 he graduated from school No. 9 in Makhachkala.

From 1999 to 2004 he practiced Thai boxing under the leadership of Zainalbek Zainalbekov.

In 2004 he graduated from the Makhachkala branch of the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute.

Since 2008, M. Abdusalamov has lived in the USA, in the city of Hallandale, Florida.

Boxing career

In 2004, he began boxing under the guidance of coach Evgeniy Kotov.

In 2005 and 2006, Magomed Abdusalamov became the Russian amateur heavyweight champion.

In 2008, M. Abdusalamov took part in the qualifying competitions for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, but was unable to qualify.

In 2008, Magomed Abdusalamov made his first appearance in the professional ring in the heavy weight category. He fought his first fight as a professional on September 6, 2008, defeating Epiphanie Pipi from Ghana by knockout in the first round.

From September 2008 to April 2013, he fought eighteen fights and won all by knockout. He won his first 8 fights by knockout in the first round. He also won the next 10 fights by knockout in the early rounds.

On July 6, 2012, he won the US WBC (USNBC) Silver title. On March 8, 2013 he defended this title.

As of November 1, 2013, Magomed Abdusalamov was ranked fourth in the World Boxing Council (WBC) rankings.

On November 2, 2013, M. Abdusalamov lost on points to Cuban Mike Perez in a fight for the US heavyweight champion according to the World Boxing Council (WBC). The fight took place in New York at Madison Square Garden. This defeat was the first and only one in his career.

After the fight, the Russian boxer was diagnosed with a fracture of his left hand and nose, a cut above his left eye and a jaw injury. Also, during the examination, the athlete was found to have a blood clot in his brain. The athlete was put into an artificial coma and operated on.

On November 6, the vice president of the Sampson Boxing promotion company, Nathan Levkovich, announced that Magomed Abdusalamov had completed his professional career and would no longer enter the ring.

On December 7, 2013, Magomed Abdusalamov came out of a coma, and on December 10, doctors transferred the boxer from the intensive care unit to a regular ward.

On December 21, 2013, an action was held at which for the treatment of Magomed Abdusalamov managed to collect about 600 thousand rubles . Part necessary funds and two months of rehabilitation were paid for by businessman, vice-president of the Russian Professional Boxing Federation Andrei Ryabinsky.

In February 2014, the wife of Magomed Abdusalamov filed a lawsuit for $100 million against the authorities. American state New York and the leadership of the New York State Athletic Commission. The family of the 32-year-old boxer has accused medical workers of negligence and unprofessionalism.
According to Abdusalamov’s family, it was the sluggishness of the fight organizers and doctors that led to irreversible brain damage to the athlete, who ended up in the hospital as a result of an injury received in the ring. The lawsuit also states that if the fight had been stopped in a timely manner, the injuries could have been avoided.

Family status

Magomed Abdusalamov is married to Bakanai Abdusalamov. Their family has three children.

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2. Russian boxer Magomed Abdusalamov remains in an induced coma for eight days. - ITAR-TASS, 11.11.2013
3. Abdusalamov - McCline - on the undercard Klitschko - Charr. Press portrait of Abdusalamov. - Championship.com, 08/13/2012
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Over 5 years of professional boxing, heavyweight Magomed Abdusalamov has never lost; The boxer won all his victories exclusively by knockout and mainly in the early stages of the fight. Only in November 2013 did Magomed’s luck desert him - he not only lost to his opponent (albeit on points), but also ended up in the hospital the very next day with a blood clot in the brain.

Magomed was born in Makhachkala, Dagestan; He was the eldest son in the family and was brought up in full accordance with the strict tenets of the Muslim faith. Magomed’s father understood perfectly well that in the unstable situation that existed in the country at that time, the boy had every chance of getting involved with crime; Abdusalamov Sr. decided to protect his son from wrong life choices with the help of sports. The idea turned out to be extremely successful - the young man showed extraordinary athletic abilities. Magomed showed himself to be a talented boxer even when he was an amateur - so, in 2005 and 2006, he managed to win a convincing victory at the Russian heavyweight championship.

Alas, even despite such brilliant achievements, Abdusalamov remained for some time in the shadow of the more famous and successful

another fighter, Islam Timurziev; as a consequence, about access to international level Abdusalamov could not even dream of it.

In 2008, Abdusalamov took part in the Olympic qualifying competitions, but Magomed failed to qualify - Englishman David Price stood in his way, eventually taking bronze.

In 2008, Magomed retrained as a professional; He won his first eight fights by knockout in the first round. On this moment Abdusalamov has 18 victories (all 18 by knockout) and 1 defeat. Relatively quick knockout victories are to this day a unique trademark of Magomed Abdusalamov.

At the end of 2011, Magomed defeated American boxer Rich Power; his opponent with a Magician

d knocked out already in the third round.

In February 2012, Abdusalamov defeated the American Pedro Rodriguez, who had never known defeat before. The Russian won his next victory over American Jason Pettaway; this time the opponent managed to hold out against Abdusalamov for more than three rounds - and only in the fourth he was knocked out. Magomed's next opponent, American Maurice Byarm, failed to repeat Pettaway's unique record and was knocked out in the second round.

In September 2012, Abdusalamov went to fight Jameel McCline; the fight turned out to be extremely intense, although rather short - in the first round, Magomed was sent away for the first time in his professional career.

I'm knocked down. Having come to his senses, Abdusalamov managed to turn the situation around - by the end of the first round he regained the lost initiative, and at the end of the second he knocked down his opponent. McCline managed to get up, but the referee considered it reasonable to stop the fight - with which Jamil did not argue. As it turned out later, Magomed did not enter the fight with McCline in the best shape - even before the fight he broke a rib and did not have time to completely heal the injury.

In March 2013, Puerto Rican Victor Bisbal came out against Magomed. Once again Abdusalamov had a much harder time than expected - Bisbal clearly dominated the first two rounds. Magomed spent the third and fourth rounds changing the situation; in the fifth he knocked out his opponent. The victory brought Magomed 3rd place in the WBC rankings.

In 2013, Abdusalamov lost on points to Cuban boxer Mike Perez. The mere fact that Magomed Abdusalamov managed to defeat was in itself a surprise for boxing fans - for Magomed this was the first defeat. The Cuban failed to knock out his opponent, but the victory on points was awarded to Perez. Things didn't go well for the Russian boxer from the very beginning - an unsuccessful blow to the Cuban's head cost Magomed an injury to his left hand. Later, Perez further aggravated the situation by breaking Abdusalamov's nose.

The injuries received, however, did not seem particularly serious by the standards of this sport. After the fight, Magomed underwent a routine medical examination; doctors did not find anything suspicious, and Abdusalamov himself did not complain about anything. Boxer feeling

I felt quite normal and even found the strength to talk to journalists.

As it turned out later, defeat in itself was by no means main problem Magomed - the next morning the boxer began to have severe headaches. Abdusalamov was sent to the hospital, where he was found to have a blockage in one of the blood vessels in his brain. To minimize the harmful consequences of this blockage, it was decided to put Magomed into an artificial coma.

The surgeons managed to cope with the operation - a blood clot that was potentially life-threatening to Abdusalamov was successfully removed. There is no threat to the boxer’s health at the moment; Apparently, Magomed will not even lose coordination of movements. Now his father Magomed Magomedgadzhi and brother Abdusalam are in New York with the boxer

Reaching for the 19th victory in his career, heavyweight Magomed Abdusalamov time and again came across only the stone fists of Mike Perez, his Cuban rival. The fight, which the judge had no reason to stop, the Russian team had no desire, and the boxers had no right, ended in the hospital. Or rather, there is a much more serious fight going on there.

GREAT IDEAS

There are no longer any traces left on Vladimir Klitschko’s face from the fight with Alexander Povetkin. On Saturday, before his eyes, Magomed Abdusalamov fought with Mike Perez in the hope of someday getting to Vladimir himself. Klitschko sat on good places at Madison Square Garden and watched boxing.

Of Abdusalamov’s 18 opponents, not one lasted until the end of the fight; the anti-record is held by Kevin Barnett, who fell 78 seconds after the start. At that moment, when it seemed that Magomed would have to compete exclusively with a stopwatch before the big fights, Mike Perez appeared on the horizon.

Magomed is a boxer with a heavy punch, but with gaps in technique. A Cuban with British registration decided to bet on the school and did not miscalculate. From the first round, Abdusalamov began throwing singles, threw his body over, fell, and not into space, but into the opponent’s hard uppercuts. This happens when they specially prepare for you. The Cuban read his opponent like an advertisement at a bus stop: without interest, but easily and quickly. Exposing his ribs, missing him in the head, breaking his arm in the first round, the Russian fought desperately, but with heavy losses. After the seventh round, Magomed’s left eye began to turn red.

Of the three judges, two gave Abdusalamov two rounds of the ten-round fight, but the boxer was just about to face a real trial. A few hours later, severe headaches, hospital and state of an induced coma. Doctors, according to American media reports, discovered a blood clot under the boxer’s skull and were forced to operate on the athlete, removing a fragment of the skull. This happens when a half-hour fight with a 100-kilogram opponent - main part your profession.

STEVENS HAD FUN FOR A WHILE

Kazakhstan's Gennady Golovkin in the 72 kg category leaves no chance for his opponents. Immediately after Abdusalamov, he rolled Curtis Stevens around the ring. The American had fun: a couple of months before the fight, he staged Golovkin’s funeral, ordering somewhere a small coffin with the inscription “RIP GGG” (“Rest in Peace, Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin”), but he himself had to be saved from death in the ring.

We have a lot to learn from the Americans: Stevens turned out to be an overly spiritual guy, but in technology he was inferior to the Kazakhstani. This became more and more noticeable with each round. After the eighth, Stevens' team removed their boxer. Perhaps this was not the most courageous act, but Curtis was able to return to his relatives on his own two feet, skipping the hospitalization stage.

EXPRESS COMMENT

WBO CHAMPION SERGEY KOVALEV: MAHOMED NEARLY HAD HIS JAW BROKEN IN THE FIRST ROUND

The Russian Sergey Kovalev, who became the world champion a couple of months ago, was present at the fight in New York.

– Already in the first round, Magomed received serious damage, almost a broken jaw. He missed a blow with the right, and a small swelling appeared on the left side of his face. There were monitors there, and during the break he tried to see himself, asking his seconds if he had any fractures.

– Didn’t it seem that Abdusalamov approached the battle tactically incorrectly?

“It seemed to me that, in principle, he was not feeling very good. Either I wasn’t psychologically adjusted, or I burned out. It was clear that some kind of flaccid person came out. I watched his training before, it was a completely different picture, he worked there very actively.

EXPERT OPINION

DOCTOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCES VLADIMIR PAVLOV: SKULL SURGERY IS NOT PERFORMED WHEN THE INJURY IS NOT SERIOUS

– Why are they put into an artificial coma?

– So that a person does not die from painful shock, and also if they undergo an operation where consciousness must be turned off: in particular, during brain surgery.

– What is the difference from general anesthesia?

– In principle, both are artificial sleep, the difference is in the mechanisms and methods of drug administration. Anesthesia is administered during surgical interventions. If there is no intervention, and the person simply remains in this state for some time, this is called an induced coma. But the essence of general anesthesia is the same: the brain is disconnected from stimuli outside world.

– They write that the boxer has a blood clot in his brain.

– A blood clot in the brain is, in a sense, an amateurish concept. More likely we're talking about about damage to a cerebral vessel (probably small, since symptoms did not appear immediately). The only thing that can be said for sure is that skull surgery is not performed when the injury is not serious.

– The terrible phrase “a skull fragment was removed” is in the headlines.

– This is a simplified formulation. Don’t think that almost half of a person’s brain was removed. For prevention possible consequences due to swelling of the brain tissue, doctors trepanate a section of bone tissue to avoid complications. In the future, it can either be returned to its place, or a plate can be installed.

martin_rogan:
– In boxing, trained guys professionally hit the dome. They themselves know what they are getting into... I wish Magomed a speedy recovery.

mr.Zlo:
– This is the answer to the question why Klitschko doesn’t wave at random - he wants to preserve his health...

As the boxer’s wife Bakanai Abdusalamova said, Magomed understands literally everything, recognizes his family and friends, and tries to speak. Magomed has good left hand control and constantly does exercises - squeezing a rubber ball, pulling an expander, throwing and catching a ball. The right hand reacts to stimuli, but only the fingers move, and the hand itself is still motionless. The same situation applies to the right leg. But Magomed even tries to write with his left hand, although this is not easy for him. The fact is that despite the fact that Magomed is left-handed, before the injury he wrote right hand. Magomed loves to hug his children and wife and blows kisses to them.
Magomed pays special attention to youngest daughter: calls her to him, hugs her, touches her cheek, does not let her go. Magomed is able to distinguish colors and do arithmetic operations in his head. Swallowing reflex in Lately has also improved significantly. While doctors allow Magomed’s family to give him only pieces of ice, the medical workers themselves have already begun feeding him ice cream, yogurt and fruit juice, and Magomed himself is able to hold a spoon in his hand and bring it to his mouth. When the swallowing reflex is restored properly, doctors will completely abandon tube feeding.
Health workers say that the progress of the swallowing reflex is directly related to the progress of the speech apparatus: when swallowing improves, speech also improves. In fact, this is how it happens, because... Magomed has recently begun to pronounce more words, and almost every day the stock of spoken words is expanding.

“Today when I was leaving home, I asked Magomed what he would like to tell me,” says Bakanay. - He told me “happily”, and then paused and added “drive carefully.” He speaks quietly, but I’m already used to it and understand him very well. Lately, Magomed also senses when he needs to go to the toilet and lets him know about it.”

Let us recall that on November 2, 2013, Magomed Abdusalamov, who at the time of the fight with Perez was ranked fourth in the WBC rating, during the fight received fractures of his left arm, nose, facial bone and a traumatic brain injury, which resulted in brain swelling and a blood clot.
During the surgical operation to remove the blood clot, part of the boxer's skull was removed to relieve the pressure of the swollen brain on the skull, but unfortunately, by that time multiple brain hemorrhages had already occurred, aggravating the boxer's already serious condition.

After the operation, doctors put Magomed into a medically induced coma and gave him almost no chance of survival.
Magomed could not breathe on his own, was connected to an artificial life support machine and remained in a comatose state for a long time.
After the doctors managed to “wake up” Magomed, his condition began to slowly improve. Periods of improvement alternated with periods of being in a state of crisis, but after progress became obvious, doctors transferred Magomed to a specialized rehabilitation center for patients with brain injuries. After this, Magomed underwent surgery to reconstruct the skull and several other operations. Since then general state the boxer is constantly improving.
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