20-year-old Alexander Volkov knocked out his opponent in 20 seconds! Drago's early career

In the spring of 2009, a young twenty-year-old tall boy from Moscow began his career in mixed martial arts. His name was Alexander Volkov and he represented Ashihara Karate. In his first fight at the M-1 Selection 2 tournament, he confidently defeated Nikolai Pleshakov, spending only one and a half minutes on the battle. Then he received an invitation to go through the training camp with the Red Devil team, which in the future will be renamed Alexander Nevsky OEMK. The future M-1 Challenge and Bellator champion wasted no time and his next fight took place just a month after his debut. He was opposed by the same twenty-year-old fighter Adam Alikhanov, representing the club Svyatogor from Taganrog.