Siyar Bahadurzada is an Afghan-Dutch mixed martial artist who was born in Afghanistan and immigrated to the Netherlands in 1999. Fascinated by martial arts since childhood, Siyar started training MMA at the age of 16 at a local Shooto gym as well as kickboxing in Amsterdam under legendary Dutch kickboxing icon and trainer, master Lucien Carbin. At Lucien Carbin’s gym, Siyar honed his kickboxing skills along side kickboxing greats like Tyrone Spong, Imro Main, Tarek el Idrissi, Gilbert Yvel, and many other local and international kickboxing champions.

As Siyar’s focus was MMA, he kept traveling outside The Netherlands to the United States to enrich his ground game. He has trained in some of the worlds most respected gyms alongside most respected and feared athletes. In 2007 he won his first world title in MMA at the age of 23 and became the Shooto light heavyweight world Champion in Tokyo, Japan. In 2009 – 2011 he defended his Shooto belt twice in Brazil where he knocked out both his opponents in the first round to maintain his world title. During this period, Siyar trained at Reign training Center and Kings MMA in California where Mark Munoz, Ryan Parsons and Master Rafael Cordeiro were the head instructors. There he trained daily with the likes of Fabricio Werdum, Wanderlei Silva, Shogun Rua, Jason “mayhem” miller, “King Mo” Lawal, Renato “Babalu” Sobral and many other MMA, BJJ and Wrestling royalties.