Bellator Featherweight Rasul Mirzaev Accused Of Killing Teenager

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Fighters Only Magazine is reporting that Featherweight prospect Rasul Mirzaev, out of Russia, has been accused of what it appears to be killing a teenager in a street fight hours after signing with Bellator.

Per Fighter’s Only:

Today it was reported that Mirzaev is being accused by Moscow police of causing the death of a 19-year-old student in the Russian capital last week.

The student, Ivan Agafonov, was outside a popular Moscow nightclub with friends when the incident occurred. He had with him a radio-controlled toy car and apparently used it to strike up conversation with a woman of Mirzaev’s acquaintance.

A witness claims that when Agafonov jokingly offered the young woman “a lift” in his toy car, Mirzaev interjected. The two then exchanged words before Mirzaev allegedly kicked the toy car to pieces. He then apparently hit the young man one blow with his left hand.

Agafonov was dropped by the punch, which knocked him unconscious. He regained consciousness around 15 minutes later and was initially thought to be fine but then “began raving like a lunatic”. Several hours later, he lost consciousness again and lingered in a coma for four days before passing away on Wednesday.