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Since 2018 he cooperates with Russian organization Fight Nights Global. He won by knockout in the short notice match against Brazilian fighter Ildemar Alcantara in the 1st round.

In the autumn of 2018 he matched in the main fight of the night against Vladimir Mineev. The fight lasted all 5 rounds and ended by draw in separate solution.

In 2014—2017 he participated in small promotional fights, winning almost all of them, except the match against French fighter Xavier Fupa-Pokam at the 100% Fight 20 in France. The referees separate solution was controversial .

In 2012 he took part in the first ever Russian MMA championship, which he won in the light heavyweight category, in the Final he defeated Rashid Yousupov.

He made his professional debut in mixed martial arts in March 2011, with the help of a strangulation from behind he made his opponent to surrender in 2nd round. At first he performed at large Russian fight organization M-1 Global, where he participated in 5 fights, 4 wins — was defeated only by strong Russian fighter Anatolyi Tokov, by whom he was caught on the reverse knot of the elbow in the 1st round and had to capitulate.

After the demobilization he started to go in for combat sambo under his trainer Vladimir Osia at Moscow fighting club Golden Team. In 2010 he won the bronze medal at Russian combat sambo championship, and won the gold the next year, won at the Rinat Sadikov memorial championship. In 2012 he won the Combat sambo World championship (by the version of International sambo federation) — for which he was awarded as the «Master of sports in Russia, International class».

Magomed Ismailov (born June 21, 1986, Nizhniy Tagil) is a Russian mixed martial artist in the light heavyweight category. Performs as a professional since 2011, famous as a participant of tournaments lead by the fighting organizations M-1 Global, Fight Nights Global and others. He is an award-winning athlete Amateur, a combat sambo World champion, master of sports of Russia of international class. Master of sports in Russian army hand-to-hand combat and freestyle wrestling.

Magomed Ismailov was born June 21, 1986, in the town of Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast to an avarian-born father and a kumuk-born mother. At the age of 7 he moved with his family to Mahachkala, where he started to go in for free wrestling at the age of 12, then he moved to Moscow and trained at the sport society «Labour reserve» (Russian:«Трудовые резервы»).