23:00, 31 May 2026

A Chechen MMA fighter announced his resignation after beating women.

Dzhikhad Yunusov, expelled from the Akhmat fight club after beating his neighbors over a domestic dispute, announced he was heading to a military operation zone.

As reported by the Caucasian Knot, on May 16, police reported an investigation into the beatings of two women in Grozny – "citizens Lorsanova and Dagayeva." The Republican Fight Club Akhmat announced that mixed martial artist Jikhad Yunusov had been expelled from the club for violence against the women. Expulsion from the Akhmat fight club is not enough to punish Yunusov. According to judicial practice, those charged with assault in Chechnya face only monetary fines.

The conflict erupted over the installation of a video camera near the woman's apartment – Yunusov didn't like that the camera's view also included his door. Footage recorded by the camera on May 13 shows the elderly woman entering the hallway, followed by Yunusov holding a cup and another man. The conversation between Yunusov and the woman escalated into a heated argument, after which the soldier removed the lid from the cup he was holding, splashed the drink in the woman's face, and then threw the cup at her, striking her with the door. The second man tried to pull him away, but the soldier broke free and, running up to the woman, struck her several times. He also struck a second woman, who ran out of the apartment after hearing the victim's screams.

MMA fighter Jihad Yunusov announced that he is heading to a military operation zone. "My next fight at the ASA tournament in Moscow is canceled. We are heading to the SVO, to Ukraine. I represented my people, Russia, on the world stage in professional mixed martial arts, and now I will happily and proudly defend my people in the SVO," he wrote on his Instagram page*.

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Attached to the post is an image of Yunusov against the backdrop of a building with the sign "Sever Akhmat." Yunusov is wearing camouflage and holding an assault rifle.

Many were outraged by the fact that Yunusov "wasn't properly asked," and he got off with a purely formal dismissal from the fight club, wrote a "Caucasian Knot" reader with the nickname "monte." "Many are convinced that Yunusov, who beat up women on camera, will get off with a 'light scare,' because he was favored by local authorities," he noted.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/423707