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Rafael Fiziev has stated he does not consider himself a product of the Kyrgyz martial arts school, saying he is self-made. Asked about the rise of Kyrgyz fighters including Valentina Shevchenko, he argued she trained in Kyrgyzstan for only five or six years before moving on, and that her coach Pavel Fedotov drew primarily from Korean taekwondo. Fiziev singled out fighters like Razhababli and Oralbai as genuine phenomena, and compared their natural gifts to those of fighters such as Justin Gaethje, Islam Makhachev, Khabib Nurmagomedov, and Jon Jones.
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