Among 40 guys on mats it one. The fighting girlfriend says that training to beat boys, it is very simple to it to finish in the championships on MMA with girls. Such severe sport as fights without rules, she chose.

Fatima Akhverdiyeva, the numerous prize-winner of the republican and world championships on MMA:

Recently went on the championship of Kazakhstan to Atyrau and brought from there gold, in the World Cup too won gold, in Moscow silver.

Fight without rules or as call it here MMA, appeared in Aktau in January of this year. Wishing to be engaged in it it appeared much. Idea of opening of sports section supported in tourism and sports management and "Dynamo" sport center. Most the aficionado of MMA and pankration — the chief of DVD of Mangistausky area rejoiced.

Nurbek Munlykov, the president of Federation of Mangistausky area on pankration:

— Nurbek Karabalayev — our most important opener pankration, it the first began in Atyrau, then brought it here. The native of Greco-Roman wrestling and is farther more at him somehow it turned out to pankration because, I speak, it is a versatile sport, and it is pleasant to all.

In the western regions of Kazakhstan pankration and MMA actively exist 8 years. In spite of the fact that to experience of our athletes isn't present also year, all of them equally leave on competitions. And as the trainer speaks: without medals didn't come back yet.

Nurbek Karabalayev, senior MMA coach:

— If separately to take each sports: fight is fight, boxing is boxing, karate is karate,kickbox — it kickbox. Each of these sports a bike, at it the richest history, but MMA — is a universal look where everything is included.

And while our athletes enter on a pedestal and listen to the national anthem in the World Cups, Fatima Akhverdiyeva is going to devote the future pankration.  Now I arrived in college on physical culture faculty.  Plans to open an own hall where will train children. 

Author: Irina Goncharova, Amandyk Amankulov