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Buvaisar Saitiev

1975 - 2025

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Buvaisar Hamidovich Saitiev (Russian: Бувайсар Хамидович Сайтиев, Chechen: Сайт КIант Бувайса; 11 March 1975 – 2 March 2025) was a Russian wrestler and politician. His total of nine world-level gold medals (three Olympics, six World Championships) in freestyle wrestling is second highest, behind Aleksandr Medved's 10. Saitiev is widely considered to be the greatest freestyle wrestler of all time; in 2007, he and Greco-Roman practitioner Aleksandr Karelin were voted the best wrestlers in the history of the sport by FILA. After his retirement from competition, Saitiev served as an acting deputy from Dagestan in the 7th State Duma from 2016 until he stepped down in 2021. In 2015, he became the President of the Chechen Wrestling Federation, a position he held until his death in 2025. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Buvaisar Saitiev is the 51st most popular wrestler (up from 106th in 2019), the 989th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,844th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Wrestler.

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Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Buvaisar Saitiev ranks 51 out of 1,027. Before him are Christian Cage, Oskari Friman, Eddie Guerrero, Bret Hart, Daniel Bryan, and Ivan Poddubny. After him are Big Boss Man, Hardcore Holly, Wim Ruska, Bray Wyatt, El Santo, and Seth Rollins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Buvaisar Saitiev ranks 53. Before him are Maria Zakharova, Fergie, Míchel Salgado, Johnny Galecki, Alexander De Croo, and Rodrigo Santoro. After him are Andrew Yang, David Harbour, Suriya, Albin Kurti, Lita, and Daron Malakian. Among people deceased in 2025, Buvaisar Saitiev ranks 141. Before him are Edgar Lungu, Cleopa Msuya, Mimis Domazos, Norair Nurikyan, Jean-Louis Debré, and Tom Robbins. After him are Jayant Narlikar, Sly Stone, Bernhard Vogel, Kiril Ivkov, Gazi Yaşargil, and Loretta Swit.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Buvaisar Saitiev ranks 989 out of 3,761. Before him are Tamara Toumanova (1919), Patriarch Job of Moscow (1525), Pavel Durov (1984), Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1891), Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), and Mikhail Boyarsky (1949). After him are Yevgeny Khrunov (1933), Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800), Andrei Bubnov (1883), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Andrei Sinyavsky (1925), and Sergei Yutkevich (1904).

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Among WRESTLERS In Russia

Among wrestlers born in Russia, Buvaisar Saitiev ranks 5. Before him are The French Angel (1903), Aleksandr Karelin (1967), Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988), and Oskari Friman (1893). After him are Ivan Yarygin (1948), Alfred Asikainen (1888), Anatoly Roshchin (1932), Sergei Beloglazov (1956), Boris Gurevich (1931), Soslan Andiyev (1952), and Pavel Pinigin (1953).

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