A fighter’s story can sometimes hit as hard as their punches, and Bogdan Guskov ’s rise to UFC contention is one of those tales that makes you pause and ask: how did a welder from a small Uzbek village become a knockout threat on the sport’s biggest stage?

Guskov enters UFC 323 with 18 professional wins, a 75%% knockout rate inside the Octagon, and a reputation for finishing opponents before they ever settle into the fight. But long before the world saw ‘Czarevitch’ under the bright lights, his journey began in a place far removed from Las Vegas or any MMA hub.

Where was Bogdan Guskov born and raised?

Guskov’s story starts in Dukent, a small village in Uzbekistan, where he was born on 12 September 1992. Born to an ethnic Russian family, he grew up in poverty and spent his early years

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