Issue 011

March 2006

The 38 year old former presidential bodyguard from Georgia has an impressive fight record 13 – 5 and has faced some tough opponents including Jeff Monson and Antonio Silva.

He hails from Georgia but has lived in the UK for the past decade with his wife. As a teenager he started Olympic wrestling and later went on to become a Sambo style fighter with excellent suplex and ground ‘n’ pound skills. Weighing in at about 242lbs more than half Tengiz’s wins (seven) have been by TKO’s. He has submitted four of his opponents and two of his encounters went to a decision. While he hasn’t been on top form of late he is confident of reversing the trend against his next opponent Buzz. 

Daily routine

8 am

30 minutes swimming

9 am Breakfast

Usually Fruit – strawberries, bananas, oranges and cereals

Sundays – a traditional English fry-up

12.00 Gym

Cardio and weight training – rowing, country skiing machine

1 pm Lunch

Chicken salad

5.00 pm Dinner

Usually meat (either grilled chicken or steak or a healthy casserole) and steamed seasonal vegetables

8.00 pm

Training depending on the day – includes sparring and/or technical workouts. Will practice jiu-jitsu, wrestling, Thai, boxing depending on the gym 

Bedtime snack 

A protein drink and/or milk and double chocolate chip cookies