History Wrestling / VolkHan

* ForWantOfANail: If Han's trainee Fedor Emelianenko is to be taken seriously, had Han not been sick in his fight with Nogueira, he would have won the fight. Granted, Fedor might have been simply putting over his master, but when you watch the match and see Han trading holds with the young Brazilian, it is not farfetched at all.

* ThreeAmigos: Was the captain of the Russian "A" team along with Mikhail Ilyukhin and Serguei Sousserov for the World Mega Battle Tournament of 1998.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Invoked and exploited by Han during the tryouts held by Maeda to recruit sambists in Russia. When he heard the Japanese was coming, he prepared his flashiest and most complex moves, even if they were less practical, in order to show him that Han was the man he was seeking to put a show in pro wrestling.

-->"They say I'm 'afraid' of fighting at the King of Kings tournament? They don't know what they say. I was in the Soviet Army's most elite parachute unit. I was tasked to defend my own city when the Chechen War reached out, and I did it by myself and with just a machine gun. If my knee allows it, I will fight - day by day. So here you have my answer: I am going to do it."

* BloodKnight: He loved to fight, in his own merry way.

* CaptainErsatz: Han became so popular in Japan that his semblance was featured in manga and video games. He is called "Wolf" in games like ''VideoGame/BattleKRoad'' and ''Saikyo: Takada Nobuhiko'' and "I. Petrov" in ''Funaki Masakatsu: Hybrid Wrestler'', and the character Heizo Kikawa from ''Manga/HighSchoolExcitingStoryTough'' is directly inspired on him.

* CoolOldGuy: Cannot be stated enough. At his forties, with bad health and little actual MMA experience, he got funky with a young old Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in the ring and led him to a decision without being put in danger in any moment. His apprentice Fedor Emelianenko sincerely believes that had Han been healthy, he would have hooked Nogueira.

* EscapeArtist: Was an expert in reversing holds. During his fight with Nogueira, Han got caught a in a ''very'' tight kneebar for long minutes, but he avoided the submissions and managed to break the hold when it looked to be impossible. Antonio himself said after the bout that, even with all of his own grappling knowledge, he had no bloody clue about how had Han escaped from his hold.

* {{Foil}}: To Wrestling/AndreiKopylov. While Han was a skinny athlete with a penchant for controlling strategies, Kopylov was an overweighted artisan specialized in short bursts of explosiveness. Their looks were also the opposite, with Volk being slender and handsome in contrast with the chubby and bald Andrei. Finally, Han was nicknamed The Wolf while Kopylov was The Bear.

* InstantExpert: He grasped pro wrestling with a minimal training and became excellent at its psychological aspect in the time amount most wrestlers are still struggling learning how to make a match. Not to mention his late adaptation to MMA.

* TheParagon: Aside from probably the best fighter of RINGS Russia before the Russian Top Team, Han was their only member who was fit and athletic and not pintoresquely overweighted.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: His ring name, "Volk Han", means "Wolf Khan" (Khan being the shortened form of his name, Magomedkhan, not the Mongolian title).

* EvilCounterpart: Nikolai Zouev was considered one to Han.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volk_Han The Other Wiki]].

* BlueIsHeroic: Always wore blue pants and boots.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Literally - he had the flu and had to be released from the hospital before the event to fight against Nogueira.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Gave an epic one after defeating Branden Lee Hinkle in his first high level MMA match.
-->"What did I think? That I was Volk Han. I didn't think things like 'I might lose' or 'I might be defeated.' I won the RINGS Mega Battle Tournament twice, so I could absolutely not lose to a random amateur wrestler! Every time I got tempted to consider the possibility of losing, I stopped and listened to the thousands of people cheering my name. Because when you hear thousands of people cheering your name, and you get to remember that you cannot let all those people down, you know you have to win no matter what."

* CaptainErsatz: Han became so popular in Japan that his semblance was featured in manga and video games. He is called "Wolf" in games like ''Battle K-Road'' and ''Saikyo: Takada Nobuhiko'' and "I. Petrov" in ''Funaki Masakatsu: Hybrid Wrestler'', and the character Heizo Kikawa from ''Manga/HighSchoolExcitingStoryTough'' is directly inspired on him.

Volk Han (born Magomedkhan Amanulayevich Gamzatkhanov, April 15, 1961) is a UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n sambist, {{professional wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter. Initially a freestyle wrestling star in his native Russia, he got in a whole new way when he was drafted to the Russian Army and put to work in the martial art of sambo. He won national and international tournaments, gold medals and cups, and served as a hand-to-hand trainer for both the army and the police. However, he didn’t see the spotlight until he was recruited by Wrestling/AkiraMaeda for his professional wrestling promotion [[Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation Fighting Network RINGS]]. Despite coming from a country with virtually no pro wrestling tradition, he soon turned out the promotion’s top gaijin, stunning the Japanese crowds with his uber-excellent grappling and ability to work technical matches with everybody. When the promotion transitioned into MMA, so did Han, who showed his true fighting skills by reaching the finals of the King of Kings Tournament. He retired after the demise of RINGS, but he remained as a MMA trainer, founding the famous Russian Top Team and serving as mentor for the lauded Fedor Emelianenko.

Volk Han (born Magomedkhan Amanulayevich Gamzatkhanov, April 15, 1961) is a UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n sambist, {{professional wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter. Initially a freestyle wrestling star in his native Russia, he got in a whole new way when he was drafted to the Russian Army and put to work in the martial art of sambo. He won national and international tournaments, gold medals and cups, and served as a hand-to-hand trainer for both the army and the police. However, he didn’t saw the spotlight until he was recruited by Wrestling/AkiraMaeda for his professional wrestling promotion [[Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation Fighting Network RINGS]]. Despite coming from a country with virtually no pro wrestling tradition, he soon turned out the promotion’s top gaijin, stunning the Japanese crowds with his uber-excellent grappling and ability to work technical matches with everybody. When the promotion transitioned into MMA, so did Han, who showed his true fighting skills by reaching the finals of the King of Kings Tournament. He retired after the demise of RINGS, but he remained as a MMA trainer, founding the famous Russian Top Team and serving as mentor for the lauded Fedor Emelianenko.

* BadassGrandpa: Cannot be stated enough. At his forties, with bad health and little actual MMA experience, he got funky with a young old Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in the ring and led him to a decision without being put in danger in any moment. His apprentice Fedor Emelianenko sincerely believes that had Han been healthy, he would have hooked Nogueira.

* PerformerVersusTechnician: One of the few people who could be both. He even explains the importance of being a performer.
--> "Before the KOK rule, we didn't think about winning first. I put my priority to how to entertain my fans by using my skills. The audience takes the time to watch our game and go to the venue and pay for it. They respect us. If you can't give a return to that respect for the game, you can't say you're a pro if you don't think about them who respect us."

* PerformerVersusTechnician: One of the few people who could be both.

* RedBaron: "Russia no Ookami" ("The Russian Wolf"), "Majutsushi" ("The Wizard"), "Sen no Submission o Motsu Otoko" ("The Man of 1000 Submissions").