MMA fighter and influencer Nermin Mehmedagic expects tough challenge at Zone 5: “He’s a fighters fighter”

Nermin Mehmedagic. Photo via Instagram (@neromma)

On Saturday April 1, Swedish MMA fighter Nermin Mehmedagic returns to the cage to clash with Ilaz Zabelaj at Zone Pro League 5.

Gothenburg’s Mehmedagic won his professional debut at Zone Pro League 2 last April, with a slick first-round submission, and recently visiting Sweden’s leading fight podcast Käftsmällspodden, he opened up on the upcoming fight against Zabelaj.

“He’s a tough fighter. A fighters fighter,” Mehmedagic said. “I have nothing bad to say about him. I thinks his fights are entertaining. He’s done good against every opponent he faced. There are sequences in every fight where he could have won. If you judge him by his record you will get finished. He pushes forward and I respect that.”

Even though he thinks highly of Zabelaj , Mehmedagic is confident going into the fight.

“I feel good! It’s been a long camp, I don’t want to train or spar any more,” Mehmedagic said. “It feels like it should feel. Nothing new.”

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Nermin Mehmedagic fights at Zone Pro League 5

Besides having a promising professional MMA career, Mehmedagic is also a popular influencer with tens of thousands of followers on social media.

“I’ve been doing social media for a short time compared to how long I’ve been doing martial arts,” Mehmedagic said. “I started training martial arts when I was eight years old and have been doing it since. It’s my life.”

During his 22 years of fighting, he has become a highly technical striker and represented the Swedish National Teams in both Karate and MMA.

According to the Gothenburg fighter, the biggest challenge of moving from Karate to MMA is to get punched in the head.

“When you compete in Kyokushin Karate you are not allowed to punch your opponent in the face. That creates bad habits which you have to change for MMA. That’s the biggest difference, to get used to punches to the head. That’s a significant detail,” Mehmedagic laughed.

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