After securing his first
UFC win, Diyar
Nurgozhay is grateful to those who supported him during tough
times.

Nurgozhay (11-2) looked to earn his first UFC win in a light
heavyweight matchup against Rafael
Tobias (14-2) at
UFC 326 on Saturday in Las Vegas. A sizeable underdog,
Nurgozhay outstruck Tobias on the feet to earn a unanimous decision
win. 

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Nurgozhay entered the UFC as a highly touted, undefeated prospect
with eight finishes in 10 wins. However, the Kazakh suffered a
submission loss against Brendson Rebeiro in his UFC debut last
year. Nurgozhay followed it up with another submission loss against
Uran
Satybaldiev in his sophomore UFC outing. Nurgozhay revealed
that a lot of his home fans from Kazakhstan counted him out after
two consecutive losses in the UFC. But Nurgozhay is grateful to his
close ones who stayed with him through thick and thin.

Thanks to the ‘True People’

“I don’t know what I’m proud of, but what I can say is that there
were a lot of people that were with me through all of this,”
Nurgozhay said in a post-fight interview withthe UFC. “Because a
lot of the people, a lot of the fans from Kazakhstan, my own
country, kind of put a cross on me, washed their hands off me and
said, ‘This is it, he’s done, he’s washed up, he can’t do anything
in the UFC.’ But there were people that believed in me, such as, my
mom, my wife, my sister, they were always with me. So, you see that
the true people will be with you no matter what, through thick and
through thin.” 

IMAK ADMIN

By IMAK ADMIN

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