Yaroslav Amosov (born 9 September 1993) is a Ukrainian mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Welterweight division of Bellator MMA, where he is the former Bellator Welterweight Champion.^[3]

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Yaroslav Amosov
Born	Yaroslav Amosov (1993-09-09) September 9, 1993 (age 30) Irpin, Ukraine
Native name	Ярослав Амосов
Other names	Dynamo
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg; 12 st 2 lb)
Division	Middleweight Welterweight
Reach	75 in (191 cm)
Style	Sambo
Fighting out of	Irpin, Ukraine
Team	Combat Dobro Amosov Team American Top Team[1]
Years active	2012–present
Mixed martial arts record
Total	28
Wins	27
By knockout	9
By submission	10
By decision	8
Losses	1
By knockout	1
Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog
Medal record Men's Combat Sambo WCSF World Championships Representing  Ukraine 2017 Dushanbe −82 kg[2] 2015 Moscow −90 kg 2014 Moscow −82 kg 2013 Moscow −82 kg 2012 Moscow −82 kg

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He is a four-time world sambo champion, a two-time European and Eurasia champion, and European Cup winner. Amosov is also the winner of many national and international competitions.

Yaroslav Amosov was born on September 9, 1993,  in the city of Irpin, Kyiv region. He began to actively engage in combat sambo at the age of fifteen at the initiative of his stepfather, trained at the Kyiv club "Hermes" under the guidance of coaches Fedor Mykolayovych Seredyuk and Vadym Mykhailovych Korytny.^[4]

He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 2012, when he won the European Combat Sambo Cup. Subsequently, he achieved significant success in this martial arts: he became the world champion three times according to the version of the international federation WCSF (2013, 2014, 2015) and twice the champion of Europe according to the version of the European federation ECSF (2013, 2014). In September 2014, he became the champion of Eurasia in professional combat sambo, defeating the experienced Russian fighter Shamil Zavurov in the final with a suffocating reception. He repeatedly won championships and Cups of Ukraine in combat sambo. In March 2015, he was awarded the honorary title "Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine" for his outstanding sports achievements.^[4]

In September 2012, though early into his Combat Sambo career, Amosov came finished in third place against Ikram Aliskerov in European Combat Sambo Federation sanctioned competition that was being hosted in Moldova.^[5] In December of that same year, Amosov again came in third place against Aliskerov in World Combat Sambo Federation sanctioned competition that was held in Moscow.^[6][7]

In June 2016, after winning sixteen fights in a row in Tech-Krep FC, Amosov beat Croatian fighter Roberto Soldić to win the vacant Tech-Krep welterweight title.^[8]

In 2017, Amosov made two successful defences of the Tech-Krep FC welterweight title against Diogo Cavalcanti and Nathan Oliveira. Amosov won both fights via submission in the first round.^{[9] [10]}

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, after seeing his family evacuated to a safe zone, Amosov stayed in Ukraine and joined several other notable fighters, including former boxing heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and his brother, former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, current unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, and former lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko, in defending Ukraine from the Russian invasion. During this time, Amosov was the Bellator Welterweight Champion.^[29] After the liberation of his hometown Irpin from the battle over the town, Amosov published a video of himself rescuing the Bellator Welterweight Champion belt, which was hidden at his mother's home.^[30]

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