Artem Lobov is a formidable Russian fighter who is arguably one of the best in the fighting sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Signing up professionally in 2010, he has been in many commendable bouts. In 2015, as a member of Irish SBG pick, Artem Lobov marked a career turning point when he was chosen as one of eight fighters who would face off under McGregor’s tutelage against eight other fighters from the Faber team on television. series, “The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber.” Artem competes in the UFC featherweight division.
Bio of Artem Lobov
Artem Lobov was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia on August 11, 1986. He started his professional career as an MMA fighter in November 2010 through a promotional fight opportunity titled “Cage Warriors”. However, he did not emerge victorious in his first match against Patrick Vickers. He actually lost by unanimous decision. Prior to this appearance, Lobov held an 11-10-01 record without having fought as a welterweight or heavyweight fighter. On January 31, he won his fight against Chechen Rashul Shovhalov in the second round of ACB 13; and he did it by submission.
UFC career
As with the rules of entry into the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), fighters had to have won a victory in the preliminaries in other to qualify for the final. Although Artem Lobov was defeated in his preliminary fight by Mehdi Baghdad, fortunately for him, Conor McGregor, a professional MMA fighter and trainer, brought him back to his position because, like after the preliminaries, the trainers had the freedom to bring back any of their fighters who have lost a match. Artem wowed the spectators on his second chance in the preliminary round by beating Team USA’s James Jenkins by ‘Total Knock Out’ (TKO). Interestingly, he pulled off the same feat against Chris Gruetzemacher in the quarter-finals.
In order to progress to the semi-finals, heJulian Erosa, the fighter for Team USA, successfully knocked out a knockout. Coming to the final, he was due to face Team Europe’s Saul Rodgers who was also an acquaintance of his colleague, an SBG competitor who usually worked at the same Manchester branch as Artem Lobov. Unfortunately for Saul Rodgers, he was replaced by Ryan Hall (Team USA) in the final, due to visa issues. By unanimous decision, Artem Lobov lost the fight to Ryan Hall, which was settled on December 11, 2015 at the Ultimate Fighter 22 finale.
On February 6, 2016, he had his next fight, but just like the fight before, he lost to Alex White at UFC Night 82, by unanimous decision. After this defeat, he entered into negotiations with a Russian regional combat promotion agency and thus had the chance to save his career. It was therefore announced that he would face UFC rookie Chris Avila at UFC 202.
The fight was won by Artem Lobov when he was declared the winner by unanimous decision. In his next match, he fought against Teruto Ishihara at UFC Fight Night 99 on November 19, 2016. He also fought well to win Teruto by unanimous decision.
On April 22, 2017, Artem was billed one-on-one with Cub Swanson at UFC Fight Night 108. Although he lost the fight, following the pair’s outstanding performance, they were both rewarded by the trophy of the night. He would also lose his next fight which was scheduled against Andre Fili on October 21, 2017. He lost by unanimous decision.
His next scheduled fight against Alex Caceres on April 7 was not supposed to be as he was disqualified due to his involvement in an attack which took place at Barclays on a bus full of fighters. Nonetheless, he was rescheduled to face another opponent, Zubaira Tukhugov, at UFC Night 138 on October 27, 2018.
Height, weight and body measurements
When it comes to UFC, fighters are usually grouped into various divisions or categories based primarily on weight bases. And those divisions could fall into one of the following: Bantamweight, Lightweight, Welterweight, Featherweight, among others. While height isn’t much of a benchmark for categorization, it still helps fighters to be tall enough, that is, if they hope to be very successful in the UFC.
So, for Artem Lobov who weighs 66 kg (145 lbs), a span of 165 cm (65 inches) and a height of 1.75 m (5 feet 9 inches), he falls into the featherweight division.