>>10155686Iranians dominate wrestling. And by Iranians I dont' only mean about the citizen of the country today known as Iran. I'm talking about the people that live in the Iranian plateau, aka Greater Iran. Plenty of caucasians are originally Iranians, but due to recent wars the geographic changed.
Most of the elite wrestlers of Russia are from southern Russia caucasians. Khabib for example, he is from Dagestan. You look up during wrestling events top 24, like 18 of them will be Iranian/Caucasians, such as S.Russians, Armenians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, and Turks.
>Dagestan remains the bastion of Persian culture in the North Caucasus with fine examples of Iranian architecture like the Sassanid citadel in Derbent, strong influence of Persian cuisine, and common Persian names amongst the ethnic peoples of Dagestan. > The ethnic Persian population of the North Caucasus, the Tats, remain, despite strong assimilation over the years, still visible in several North Caucasian cities. Even today, after decades of partition, some of these regions retain Iranian influences, as seen in their old beliefs, traditions and customs (e.g. Norouz).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Iran 