The State Duma called the freestyle wrestling champion Saitiev an outstanding person.

"A legendary man, an outstanding man, has passed away. "...The greatest wrestler and the greatest man," Taymazov said.

According to him, such people are born once in a thousand years. He clarified that he had fought with Saytiyev on the same carpet. In addition, they worked together in the legislature, Taymazov added. Saitiev was a member of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sports.

Soviet freestyle wrestler, Olympic champion, three-time world champion Anatoly Beloglazov, in an interview with Izvestia, in turn, stressed that Saitiev was href="https://iz.ru/1847714/2025-03-02/borec-volnogo-stila-beloglazov-nazval-saitieva-legendarnym-sportsmenom " target="_blank">a legendary athlete.

On the same day, it became known that Buvaysar Saytiev died at the age of 49. Saitiev is one of the most decorated freestyle wrestlers. He became Olympic champion at the Atlanta Games in 1996, took gold in Athens in 2004 and in Beijing in 2008. In addition, he won the World and European Championships six times.