Background
Galiev was born to a working class Bashkir family and started his competitive sports career in Greco-Roman wrestling, becoming the Bashkortostan champion.
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Career
He started his professional mixed martial arts career in 2004. He later participated in Combat Sambo and Unifight on the international level On 5 December 2009, he participated in the Combat Sambo rules category of the special event Bitva Chempionov IV of the Russian Martial Arts Association in Moscow and defeated the 2009 European Combat Sambo Champion Paul Lening of Germany by points.
On 5 November 2011, he participated in the event Bitva 5 held in Moscow and beat Roman Bagdasaryan in a bout under kickboxing rules.
Galiev holds International Class Master of Sports rank in Combat Sambo and Unifight, as well as Master of Sports rank in Greco-Roman wrestling. Unifight
International Amateur Federation of Unifight
ARG (Army Hand-to-Hand Combat)
Russian Union of Martial Arts
3rd Place Russia Championship.
Sambo
All-Russian Sambo Federation
Russian Combat Sambo National Championships 2nd Place (2010)
Federation International Amateur de Sambo (FIAS).
Achievements
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Galiev became the Combat Sambo World Champion (74 kg) at 2008 World Sambo Championships and 2009 World Sambo Championships. On 19 November 2010, Galiev faced Dagestan Kudo world champion (76 kg) and mixed martial artist Shamkhal Kerimov in an amateur Mobile Marketing Association bout at Bitva Chempionov V in Moscow and defeated his opponent by split decision. Unifight European Champion. Combat Sambo Russian National Champion. Combat Sambo World Champion.
