Former MMA fighter, 30, dead after rescuing four girls from lake current

A former mixed martial artist died after saving four girls from a powerful current, in response to reviews.

Medet Zheenaliev, 30, noticed four girls swimming in Lake Issyk-Kul in his dwelling nation of Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday, and one in every of them was reportedly pulled below the current.

Zheenaliev and a buddy went into the water to avoid wasting the girls, however the fighter by no means resurfaced, in response to The Sun.

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Divers discovered his physique the subsequent day.

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The lake is the ninth-deepest in the worldreaching a depth of two,192 ft.

Zheenaliev had four skilled fights, splitting them even with two wins and two losses. His debut was a victory over Vladimir Kravchuk on Sept. 23, 2017, in Fightpro’s Battle for the Belt in Moscow. Zheenaliev earned the victory with an armbar submission 2:08 into the combat.

A normal view of the Octagon throughout UFC 242 at The Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Sept. 7, 2019. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC)

At the Battle on Volga 3 six months later, he defeated Shamil Temirkhanov in a first-round knockout.

He didn’t have the identical success in his last two fights, tapping out to a rear-naked choke within the second spherical towards Akhmadkhan Bokov on the Road to M-1 on April 7, 2018.

A normal view of the UFC Octagon inside Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, previous to the UFC 328 occasion on May 9, 2026. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

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He then took a virtually 17-month hiatus and fought Makkasharip Zaynukov at GFC 16, however medical doctors stopped the combat after spherical one and gave Zaynukov the victory.

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