This 20-year-old suffers from achondroplasia and is an internet sensation with 3.5 million followers thanks to his funny videos.
Hasbulla Magomedov is one of the UFC’s most iconic signings. The rumor emerged a month ago thanks to reporter Igor Lazorin, who revealed that the social media star has reached an agreement for the next five years with the main mixed martial arts company: “We are not going to talk about values in detail”. But they exist in a way that few fighters achieve much.” Hasbulla attended UFC 267 in October 2021 in Abu Dhabi and became an all-around phenomenon, earning recognition even from Dana White.
For the last few weeks, Hasbulla’s more than three million followers on Instagram have been waiting for the star to announce this, and finally the statement arrived: “Friends, the rumors about the UFC are true. I have officially signed my contract and the details will be revealed at the end of the year. Thanks to the UFC and Dana White for giving me the opportunity, I will try to live up to their trust. Thanks to brother Khabib Nurmagomedov for paving the way for all of us”, he announced on social media with a heap of thanks.
But Who is Hasbulla Magomedov and for What he is Famous?
Hasbulla was born 20 years ago in Makhachkala, in the Republic of Dagestan, which is located on the shores of the Caspian Sea and very close to the border with Georgia. He suffers from achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism, which is why many initially mistook him for a five-year-old boy. And it is that he himself admitted in an interview last year that he was one meter tall and weighed 16 kilos, to which must be added a tone of voice that inevitably leads one to believe that he is not 20 years old. Identification card. Of course, he admits that his condition is different from other patients with achondroplasia and that the doctors were not able to give him a clear diagnosis of his illness.
However, one only has to watch a few videos of him on social media to see that he doesn’t have kids. In many of them it appears drinking beer, smoking, driving or lifting weights, which is why it spread quickly in Russia and Eastern countries before spreading to the rest of the world. He currently gathers more than 3.5 million followers on Instagram and has more than half a million fan profiles, also on TikTok.
His fame led him to meet great personalities like Khabib Nurmagomedov, with whom he now shares a great friendship that they often show on social media, or Shaquille O’Neal, who pretended to hit him. In addition, he managed to travel all over the world and will soon be part of the UFC. It’s worth remembering that Hasbulla has Abdu Rozik as an enemy, a young man from Tajikistan with rickets that he contracted during a UFC fight. Of course, for Russia, both the social network and the recently signed deal with the mixed martial arts company seem temporary. He wants to continue studying and teaching himself in the Quran to be an Islamic theologian in Dagestan and the Caucasus.
