🌠 Petr Yan Biography

Peter Yan was born in a small village in the Krasnoyarsk region and lived there until he was twelve years old. Then the family moved to Dudinka, where Peter went to sixth grade. Yang owes his unusual surname to his paternal grandfather, a purebred Chinese. My father’s grandmother is Georgian, the athlete’s mother and her relatives are Russian.
Little Petya grew up as an active, energetic boy, distinguished by his explosive, hot-tempered character and a heightened sense of justice. Since childhood, he was accustomed to defending his rightness with his fists, and often got involved in street fights, after which he came home with bruises and abrasions.

He simply had nowhere to spend his irrepressible energy - there were no children’s clubs or sections in the village. Everything changed after moving to the city - Peter immediately signed up for football, acrobatics and swimming, and tried weightlifting and taekwondo.
I studied during the second shift, so I managed to do everything, and in the conditions of the polar night there was nothing else to do anyway. Ultimately, the guy chose boxing - the example of his older brother played a decisive role. And the fame of Kostya Tszyu, his childhood idol, spurred the guy to take decisive action.

Peter devoted eight years to professional boxing, became a master of sports and realized that he had reached the ceiling. There was a desire to try himself in something different, and the young man began to be interested in mixed martial arts. He made his debut in 2013 in Irkutsk, having learned about the fight ten days before the start of the tournament. The fight turned out to be difficult, but in the extra round, Yan still managed to knock out his opponent and emerge victorious from the fight.

In January 2018, Yang signed a contract with the UFC, the most respected organizer of MMA fights in the world. By that time, the athlete already felt confident in his abilities, he had developed his own style - assertive and aggressive. His main trump card was working with his hands, the span of which was equal to his height (170 cm). In fighting circles, Peter received the nickname Nomercy, which means “There will be no mercy.”

Yang had his first fight in the UFC on June 23, 2018 in Singapore, where he met with Japanese Teruto Ishihara and won a landslide victory over him. His next opponent was supposed to be the titled Brazilian Douglas Silvadi Andrady, but due to a leg injury he was replaced by the Korean Jin Soo Son. The Korean lost the fight and was forced to give 20 percent of his purse in favor of his opponent, since his weight slightly exceeded the established norm. Yan also received the “Fight of the Night” award - the audience and judges unanimously appreciated the entertainment of the fight and the intensity of passion that reigned in the ring.

On December 29, 2018, the previously postponed fight with Douglas Silvadi Andrady took place. In the second round, Peter won by technical knockout, after which the fight was stopped due to a severe cut on the Brazilian’s face. Peter emerged victorious in a fight with American John Dodson in February 2019. And on December 14 of the same year, he knocked out the famous American fighter Urijah Faber with a kick to the head and won the “Performance of the Night” award.

Peter met his future wife Yulia in Omsk when he was just starting his sports career. Since then, she accompanies her beloved husband everywhere and is his talisman for good luck.

In 2016, the couple had their first child, Daniel. The kid is like two peas in a pod and is already dreaming of sports victories.

In February 2020, Ian took a short vacation and flew with his son and pregnant Yulia to Thailand to relax with his family before the fight for the championship title. But due to the coronavirus epidemic and quarantine, it became impossible to leave the country, and the family had to stay in Phuket for almost five months. Peter rented a villa with a swimming pool on the ocean, equipped it with a training room and began to independently prepare for the fight. On June 22, there, in Thailand, their second son was born, who was named Konstantin in honor of Kostya Tszyu.