Engin Terzi: Rustam Babayev is legendary 09:18 12/13/2016 First time i saw him was 1999 Europeans in Hungary. He was a tiny boy then but following year in 2000 Europeans in İstanbul he was much stronger as he won the junior competetion easily with the right arm and took second place in senior 65kg division. Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. As far as i remember he lost against Valery Goussov from Russia but stil he did great in senior class for someone who was only 18 years old. Same year i did not see team him in 2000 WAF worlds in Virginia Beach USA. In 2001 Zloty i heard that he gave very tough match to Gashevski who was the best light weight in those years. In WAF 2001 Babayev pulled 70kg class and took 3. with right arm and 4. with left arm. That was the last time that Babayev losing a competetion with both hands. Following year he won Europeans with both hands against the pullers such as Grigoriev, Pisarkov and a junior Zoloev. Then he won his first senior