Petr Yan KTFO’d the tough wrestler! Forgotten fight and KNOCKOUT from the merciless champion!

The fight between Petr Yan and Cory Sandhagen finally happened. We still don’t know, for how long time Aljamain Sterling is going to run from Russian. But at least we can remember the very first fight of ”No Mercy”. It was March 29, 2013 in Irkutsk, at Baikal Storm event. Petr was representing Omsk team, his opponent was Murad Bakiev from Irkutsk, who was very experienced sambo fighter and won at Baikal Storm events for three years in a row. Quote from Petr Yan himself: ”There were the special rules which allowed the headbutting. My opponent used it, he was headbutting me when he was on top on the ground, he threw the elbows from the top. I had no idea about grappling back then, I did whatever I thought was right, I just thought that I need to get back on my feet, but I believed in myself all the time. I got only about 20 000 rubles for this fight, it was enough for the present for my girlfriend, cinema tickets, I paid the rent for my apartments, and maybe something left after that” That’s how the caree