How to pronounce“dage”in English

Dagestan, they kept changing hands. Massive empires would roll in, and all of that left a mark on the people.

Dagestan is so small, and he had so few people with him. How did he get famous? He got famous because he held out for a very long time. He didn't

dagestan and just talk to them because i happen to be able to speak russian because because there's uh less value for

think dagestan why do you think khabib is as good as he is is there is this just the raw genetics of the human or is there something about the system the

romcoms can officially damage Dage our health and and ruin our love lives because they support they they promote

to the success of Dagestani wrestlers and fighters, the coaching staff of Dagestan.

'Cause the guys from Dagestan on the team, really great guys, by the way, all say they've never seen you broken in training,

Everyone will be Dagestani for a day.

let's talk about dagestan in general what do you what do you think makes those wrestlers great yeah it's fascinating um have you read the book

But what's really interesting is how Dagestan has produced so many wrestling champions. You mentioned football. Let's look at other countries. Why has Brazil produced so many great football players?

But in many other sports here in Dagestan, we don't have such a well-structured ladder for people to climb.

But there are coaches in Dagestan that not many people know about. They are known locally, but they are very good, and actually they have the knowledge, they have the

And so there are villages in Dagestan that deeply honor the memory of particular warriors who came from their villages, from their clan, from their ethnic group. But in, well world history, they're

- What do you think makes the Dagestani wrestlers and fighters so good?

and uh is there in dagestan dagestan is a little weird in terms of like but he could have especially with putin's support where

- So your life story began in the mountains of Dagestan in Sildi, then Kirovaul, and then Makhachkala.

- Yes. Take Dagestan, for example. We love football. I just know how much people in Dagestan love football. Yes, we have wrestlers, fighters. There are many

- Have you ever like gone hard with the Dagestani person, like grappling, wrestling, any of the fighters, any of them MMA guys?

difference so obviously i know the the the kibbe the dagestani people they don't play around like that they don't play wrong

You had other minorities in Chechnya, Dagestan, et cetera, the Caucasus.

- Who knew that the cure, to the Dagestani Wrestling, were the Aussies?

But, who knew that the cure to the Dagestani wrestling were the Aussies?

He's just unbreakable. The Dagestani guys, Khabib, Islam, they are good at submissions.

assume a lot of the same principles uh that are in that book apply to dagestan and wrestling right they did south korea and um

that i can beat them casca and this is a small tangent so uh dagestan has produced some incredible wrestlers i don't know what the story

mark. If you're into history and you start reading about Dagestan, I think you'll get completely immersed and be amazed by what a unique place it is.

from various countries. People have written so much about Dagestan. It went by different names back then, but they wrote a ton about this exact region.

Can you tell us these stories? How often did you fight on the streets of Dagestan?

wrestling academies we try to take some lessons from that and apply it i got to assume they didn't cover dagestan in that book specifically but i gotta

where judo is where the source of source of greatness in russia is for judo but what do you make of dagestan why

for a bit the full russian hat right of like this is the great nation like rise above the uh the culture of dagestan which is

into the fire of this of this brashness it's the sort of um the cool collected like calmness of the dagestan

- Great. Let's start from the beginning. So that gym back in Dagestan where you trained is legendary for its spartan conditions.

what factors in that gym, those training sessions, that life in Dagestan created so many champions?

And Makhachkala, for the people who don't know, it's the capital of Dagestan. This was back around the years from two thousand to two

wrestling or other styles. There may be forty or fifty gyms for combat sports, and all are full. If you win in Dagestan, you move on to

- Well, you have to look at the traditions, because generally it's just the way it is in Dagestan. Everyone wrestles. Everyone fights. It's part of

- Yes, that's right. These lands, Dagestan specifically, have seen powerful armies sweep through time and time again.

Then the Russian Empire, Timur passed through there, the Mongols. And if we look at the geographical location of Dagestan, for those who don't know, the

Basically, of course, Islam is our primary religion, but Dagestan has actually absorbed a lot of cultures and faiths. Even our food culture, it is incredibly rich. We have European and Asian and

Timur. When he passed through with a huge army, he stayed in the Dagestan lowlands but never went up into the mountains. Why? Because

- Well, in the past, it's not like I really felt it. I knew Dagestan's history, but maybe with time, you start to see it in a whole new

- I don't know if it's okay to ask something like this, but I would dream of coming out there to Dagestan, and not just to Makhachkala, but to Sildi.

Wherever my father coached, there were always... Let's take the year 2004, for example. My father put together the Dagestan national team for combat Sambo and in mixed martial

in our gym who was heavier, maybe one class heavier. This guy was the best in his weight, winning Dagestan and the city too. So they got into a conflict.

When I did the seminar in Odessa, it was at a school, but another school in the city brought like 10 Dagestani guys.

- The dominance. I mean, we've been joking about it, but Craig, what do you think makes the Dagestani fighter so good?