Country: | Georgia |
Weight Class: | +95 kg, Open |
Worlds Rank: | 2 |
Worlds Year: | 1991 |
Worlds Year2: | 1993 |
Regionals Type: | EU |
Regionals Rank: | 1 |
Regionals Year: | 1993 |
Regionals Weight: | Men's Open |
Regionals Year2: | 1993 |
Regionals Weight2: | Men's +95 kg |
Regionals Year3: | 1996 |
Regionals Weight3: | Men's +95 kg |
Olympics Rank: | 1 |
Olympics Year: | 1992 |
Olympics Weight: | Men's +95 kg |
Updated: | 5 June 2023 |
David Rostomovich Khakhaleishvili (Georgian: დავით როსტომის ძე ხახალეიშვილი; 28 February 1971 – 11 January 2021) was a heavyweight Georgian judoka, mixed martial artist and Olympic gold medalist. He was born in Kutaisi.
Khakhaleishvili was expected to defend his heavyweight Olympic title at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, U.S. in a highly anticipated match against the reigning world champion, David Douillet, but Khakhaleishvili and his coach went to the wrong location for weigh-ins and Khakhaleishvili was disqualified from the competition for failing to make weight.[1]
|-|Loss|align=center|1–2|Yoshihiro Nakao|TKO (submission to punches)|K-1: Premium 2003 Dynamite!!||align=center|2|align=center|1:13|Nagoya, Japan||-|Loss|align=center|1–1|Yoshihisa Yamamoto||RINGS: Battle Dimensions Tournament 1996 Opening Round||||Japan|Battle Dimensions Tournament 1996 Opening Round.|-| Win| align=center|1–0| Herman Renting| | RINGS: Budokan Hall 1995| | | | Tokyo, Japan|