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Movsar Evloev Religion: Is the Russian Fighter Also a Practicing Muslim?

Allan Binoy
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Movsar Evloev Religion: Is the Russian Fighter Also a Practicing Muslim?

Movsar Evloev is a religious man and regularly posts religious quotes. The UFC Featherweight fighter is now one of the few unbeaten fighters in his division. He made his UFC debut back in 2019 and has since been on an 8-fight winning streak. His latest victory came against Arnold Allen at UFC 297. Evloev is of Russian origin and here’s everything about what religion the unbeaten fighter practices.

Movsar Evloev is a practicing Muslim. His Instagram bio says, “There is no power nor strength except through Allah”. Surely, his faith in his religion has given him the power to fight tough opponents and end up on the winning side.

 

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In January this year, the featherweight took on his hardest test to date. He fought Arnold Allen at UFC 297. During his octagon interview, he thanked God for another victory:

“But Alhamdulillah, thanks God, it’s another victory, I’m happy that I make my neighbors, my siblings happy of my victory.”

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Movsar Evloev credits all his victories to Allah and is very vocal about his faith. He believes all his wins, and all his success is a direct blessing from God, without whom he would not be able to achieve anything.

Like Evloev, there are other UFC fighters who credit their success to the will of the Almighty, one such fighter is Khabib Nurmagomedov.

Khabib Nurmagomedov reveals the importance of having faith in adversity

Khabib Nurmagomedov, like Movsar Evloev is a stout Muslim. ‘The Eagle’ always credited God with all the success he had inside the octagon.

In a recent interview with Nurlan Saburov on VK, the Russian social media app, Nurmagomedov spoke about the importance of having faith:

“Only faith helps, nothing else…There is the will of the Almighty, there are things we do not control…We as Muslims accept everything..If what we want is given by the Almighty, then praise the Almighty.”

Take a look at a clip from the interview:

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Similar to Movsar Evloev, the Dagestani fighter believes whatever happens to us happens by the will of the almighty.

We think we have control over what happens to us. However, whatever is done unto us is done by the almighty, be it good or bad. All we have to do is accept it and praise him for what he has given us.

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Allan Binoy

Allan Binoy

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Allan Binoy is a MMA journalist at The SportsRush. Taken to the sport in 2015, thanks to a certain Conor McGregor, Allan has himself dabbled in the martial arts. And having graduated from Loyola College, Chennai, with a degree in English Literature, he has learnt to use his love for language to have a voice in the MMA community. Allan has been writing about the gladiatorial stories for more than three years now and has pursued excellence at a number of reputable media organizations, covering every UFC PPV in the last couple of years. In addition to this, the southpaw is also a semi-professional soccer player for Diego Juniors FC in Pune, playing in the Pune Super Division League.

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