Shara “Bullet” Magomedov recently shared how a specific rule in Khabib Nurmagomedov’s gym once kept him from joining the famed training facility.
Founded by the late Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, father of UFC legend Khabib Nurmagomedov, the gym became known as a breeding ground for elite fighters, where structure, discipline, and tradition were non-negotiable.
Magomedov recalled hearing about the gym from a young age and being eager to train there…
But his long hair posed an immediate problem:
I always had a long haircut and in my childhood, youth, school time I heard about the gym.
The problem was that to sign up there you had to have the haircut.There was one time I went there when Khabib was young and he actually wasn’t training that day so I trained.
Fighters were expected to adhere to three core principles: maintaining a close-cropped hairstyle, avoiding late-night outings, and demonstrating punctuality in training.
Abdulmanap’s reasoning was clear, according to Magomedov – focus on yourself, hard work and success first, then the women will come:
You want to look beautiful for girls and for a fighter it shouldn’t be there.
An athlete should focus on their own training and then the girls will come when you’re getting high titles at five levels and you won’t have a single hair on your head.
Sloth Jiu-Jitsu: you can be slow and unathletic and still kick butt in Jiu-Jitsu.
