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Never wipe out Niiaz Bilalov for world level gold
7 Nov 2021 20:25
IJF Media Team
IJF Emanuele Di Feliciantonio / International Judo Federation
Three Azeris, two Canadians, two Brazilians, 2 Mongolians and 2 Georgians: it seemed like a fight between gangs for the conquest of a neighborhood at the last day of the Baku Grand Slam. Shady El Nahas from the Canadian district has started to hate the number 5. He was fifth at the world championships and the Olympics. Baku served to break that barrier and reach the final that corresponded to him by status.
He is number four in the world and he measured forces with the Russian Niiaz Bilalov, old fox of the World Judo Tour, on form at the end of the year.
It was a kumi-kata fight in which the Russian was constantly cross gripping, making it difficult for the Canadian to land his favourite grips. Two left-handed warriors will always produce some interesting solutions. A minute and a half into the golden score Bilalov pulled a technique out of his kit bag that we hadn´t seen during the rest of the fight. A big osoto-gari was the Russian's safe passage to the neighbourhood's top spot.
"I had a very intense day and bad news because I lost a tooth today", declared Bilalov. -100kg is a really tough neighbourhood.
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