The Feti Borova Arena has now witnessed two of the most epic comeback from neutral wrestler Abdulrashid Sadulaev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2024, he marked his return from injury with his sixth world title, one which he won by going down to 92kg and shocking the world with a buzzer-beating win over Iranian Kamran Ghasempour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second was yesterday. In his first international tournament since the world title, Sadulaev returned to 97kg and won the gold medal at the Muhamet Malo Ranking Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sadualev’s return to competition was much talked about as he entered the tournament which had the likes of his long-time rival and world champion Kyle Snyder of the USA), up-and-coming star Mukhamed Khaniev (UWW), Olympic bronze medalist Magomedkhan Magomedov of Azerbaijan, former world champion Rizabek Aitmukhan of Kazakhstan and other world medalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While his fifth match against Snyder was denied after the American lost to Khaniev in the quarterfinals, Sadulaev was met with a stiffer challenger in Khaniev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U23 world silver medalist defeated Snyder 10-4 and then took out Magomedov in the semifinal to set up a clash against Sadulaev. The winner would also book his spot for the European Championships, to be held at the same arena in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sadulaev was checked by Khaniev in the first period but a double-leg blast helped the former take a 4-0 lead. Khaniev cut it to 4-2 but a watchful Sadulaev never allowed him to dictate the pace of the bout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keeping Khaniev at an arm’s length, Sadulaev scored three counter takedowns while giving up two stepouts to win final, 10-4, and lock his spot for the European Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other Freestyler results, Abdulla Kurbanov (UWW) clinched the 125kg gold medal after an impressive 8-5 victory over world bronze medalist Mason Parris of the USA in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the score makes the final look close, Kurbanov was the better of the two wrestlers in the final, managing to tire Parris out in the final. He scored a four-pointer in his eight points and did not let Parris threaten his lead even one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the score was 7-3, Parris tried to score a takedown but Kurbanov scored a stepout on counter to make 8-3. He did give up a takedown in the final 10 seconds to avoid further risks in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran Wins 2 Golds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After Yones Emami won Iran’s first gold medal on Wednesday, Iran added two more through Mohammad Nokhodi and Amirhossein Firouzpour in the 79kg and 92kg, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nokhodi, who had struggled with a knee injury last season, seemed to have gained full fitness. He had no trouble in seeing off American Dean Hamiti, 10-0, in the final at 79kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two-time world silver medalist scored three different takedowns and managed to turn Hamiti twice to accumulate his points in the gold medal bout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Firouzpour, world bronze medalist in Zagreb, was in similar form as he defeated former world silver medalist Miriani Maisuradze of Georgia 11-1, in the 92kg final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Freestyle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 79kg<\/strong> BRONZE: Dzhabrail GADZHIEV (AZE) bt Sagar JAGLAN (IND), 10-4\u00a0 92kg<\/strong> BRONZE: Ahmed BATAEV (BUL) bt Jacob CARDENAS (USA), 11-0 97kg<\/strong> BRONZE: Kyle SNYDER (USA) bt Magomedkhan MAGOMEDOV (AZE), via inj. def. 125kg<\/strong> BRONZE: Wyatt HENDRICKSON (USA) bt Hakan BUYUKCINGIL (TUR), via fall Women’s Wrestling<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 50kg<\/strong> BRONZE: MUSKAN (IND) bt Kendra RYAN (USA), 10-0 55kg<\/strong> BRONZE: Anastasia BLAYVAS (GER) bt PUSHPA (IND), 3-2 The Feti Borova Arena has now witnessed two of the most epic comeback from neutral wrestler Abdulrashid Sadulaev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-9896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-wrestling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abdulrashid_sadulaev_uww_df._mukhamed_takhir_khaniev_uww_.jpg",1300,731,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abdulrashid_sadulaev_uww_df._mukhamed_takhir_khaniev_uww_-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abdulrashid_sadulaev_uww_df._mukhamed_takhir_khaniev_uww_-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abdulrashid_sadulaev_uww_df._mukhamed_takhir_khaniev_uww_-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abdulrashid_sadulaev_uww_df._mukhamed_takhir_khaniev_uww_-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abdulrashid_sadulaev_uww_df._mukhamed_takhir_khaniev_uww_.jpg",1300,731,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abdulrashid_sadulaev_uww_df._mukhamed_takhir_khaniev_uww_.jpg",1300,731,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abdulrashid_sadulaev_uww_df._mukhamed_takhir_khaniev_uww_-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abdulrashid_sadulaev_uww_df._mukhamed_takhir_khaniev_uww_-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abdulrashid_sadulaev_uww_df._mukhamed_takhir_khaniev_uww_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9898,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896\/revisions\/9898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
GOLD: Mohammad NOKHODI (IRI) bt Dean HAMITI (USA) , 10-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BRONZE: Luka CHKHITUNIDZE (GEO) bt Cameron AMINE (USA), 3-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Amirhossein FIROUZPOUR (IRI) bt Miriani MAISURADZE (GEO), 11-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BRONZE: Azamat DAULETBEKOV (KAZ) bt Kamil KURUGLIYEV (KAZ), 4-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Abdulrashid SADULAEV (UWW) bt Mukhamed KHANIEV (UWW), 10-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BRONZE: Rizabek AITMUKHAN (KAZ) bt Jointy KUMAR (IND), 10-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Abdulla KURBANOV (UWW) bt Mason PARRIS (USA), 8-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BRONZE: Kamil KOSCIOLEK (POL) bt Nursultan AZOV (KAZ), 4-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Zeinep BAYANOVA (KAZ) bt Priyanshi PRAJAPAT (IND), 13-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BRONZE: Erin GOLSTON (USA) bt Valeriia TIUKPIEKOVA (UWW), 4-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GOLD: Laura ALMAGANBETOVA (KAZ) bt Liliia MALANCHUK (UKR), 3-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BRONZE: Ekaterina VERBINA (UWW) bt Beatrice FERENT (ROU), 10-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"