Russian MMA fighter, Georgiy Gagloev, found dead on train
Russian MMA fighter Georgiy Gagloev has been found dead at the age of 25 in the carriage of a train which was traveling from Moscow to Vladikavkaz.
Gagloev’s body is said to have been discovered during a stop in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
According to reports, Gagloev’s dead was “violent.” News outlet Baza reports that he was suffocated with a pillow. However, the Telegram channel “112” claims that Gagloev died of a pulmonary embolism. Photo below from Baza.
According to Meduza.io, “sources of the online publication Baza linked Gagloev’s alleged murder to the fact that he was searching for his aunt, Rimma Gagloeva, a well-known fortuneteller from the North Caucasus. Gagloeva went missing in Chechnya in February 2022, along with a taxi driver who, was taking her from Grozny to Beslan. After they disappeared, investigators opened a criminal case relating to the murder of two or more people.”
Gagloeva had a pro MMA record of 1-4 and last competed on December 31, 2021.
He was a local North Ossetian champion in freestyle wrestling and hand-to-hand combat before moving into MMA.
Gagloev was the 2016 winner of a men’s Sambo championship in St. Petersburg, the 2018 winner in judo at the St. Petersburg Armed Forces Championship, and the 2020 winner of a cage fighting MMA tournament in Kislovodsk.
