Before his fifth birthday, UFC featherweight Giga Chikadze started his martial arts journey, as he started training Goju Ryu karate. It was only natural for the child, who was already a martial artist to get interested in MMA, which was picking up steam a few years after his birth.

Even in Georgia, half a world away from America, he was able to get his hands on a VHS tape of the UFC 1 tournament (yes, it was a tournament back then), and knew what he wanted to do with his life. While he has successfully been able to make his dream a reality and made it to the UFC, an integral part of his MMA journey, whose love and support have been integral to his journey is his wife and kids.

Meet Giga Chikadze’s wife Tamari Tamuna Gazashvili: What does she do?

Not much is known about his wife, Tamuna Gazashvili. What we do know comes from her social media, specifically from her Instagram page, which has over 42 thousand followers at the moment, and her LinkedIn profile, which tells us that she is a Marketing Director at AnB Hotel Management & Investment.

While Gazashvili is currently a resident of Huntington Beach, California, she, like her husband, seems to be of Georgian ancestry based upon her last name. She holds an MBA from Greenwich University, and has done a course in Online Marketing from UCLA.

There is also virtually no information about how the couple met, but based on Gazashvili’s Instagram activity, it seems they have been married since 2007, and have been going strong for fourteen years. It seems they met and got married in Georgia, then moved to Amsterdam, then to America in 2016. Their marriage has been fruitful and the couple has been blessed with both a son and a daughter.

How many kids do Giga Chikadze and his wife have together?

Giga Chikadze and his wife Tamuna Gazashvili have two children- a daughter, Nita Chikadze, and a son, Tanjiro Chikadze who is younger. Nita is 14, and quite an accomplished actress to boot. According to her IMDB profile, she started modeling and acting at six, when her family moved to California.

Since 2017, she has acted in various short films, which have garnered her many nominations, including the Best Child/Young Actress at the LA Short Film Festival, Independent Short Awards, and the Indie Short Fest in 2019. Their son is younger, but his age or anything else about him is unknown.

It’s not just his wife and kids that fuel Chikadze’s fight. He is also ardent in his fight against cancer, since he himself lost his mother do the disease in 2o13. In 2014, he founded the Knockout Cancer foundation, which has helped over 200 people around the world in their battle against cancer. For his efforts, Chickadze won the 2022, Forrest Griffin Community award from the UFC, joining the likes of Dustin Poirier.

So it’s safe to say that Chikadze is setting a great example for his kids both inside and outside the Octagon.