Reigning Bellator MMA light heavyweight champion Vadim Nemkov often pairs straight right hands to the head with murderous low kicks, rarely switching from the orthodox stance. He buys into the Bruce Lee philosophy: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Basics matter to him.
Nemkov has rattled off eight straight victories, six of them in Bellator. He carries an overall record of 13-2, with eight first-round finishes to his credit, and trains under the legendary Fedor Emelianenko in his native Russia.