Umar Nurmagomedov suffered a damaged hand early into his UFC title tilt with Merab Davalishvili.
In a latest publish on X, Nurmagomedov’s supervisor Ali Abdelaziz revealed that the beforehand undefeated bantamweight contender sustained a fairly nasty damage within the opening spherical of Saturday’s co-main occasion with ‘The Machine’ in Los Angeles.
Instantly following the battle, Nurmagomedov alluded to the chance that he could have damaged his hand throughout the conflict, however Abdelaziz later confirmed the damage on social media.
“[Umar] broke his hands first round no excuse no excuse Alhamdulillah for everything,” Abdelaziz posted alongside and picture of Nurmagomedov’s swollen hand.
Regardless of the damage, Nurmagomedov received the primary two rounds on two of the three judges’ scorecards, however it all started to slide away within the championship rounds after Dvalishvili’s speedy tempo overtook the battle and secured his first profitable protection of the 135-pound crown.
Umar Nurmagomedov wasn’t the one undefeated fighter to lose their ‘o’ at UFC 311
It wasn’t an awesome evening for fighters seeking to maintain their undefeated data intact.
Along with Umar Nurmagomedov struggling his first loss after beginning his profession 18-0, Clayton Carpenter, Rinya Nakamura, and Payton Talbott all surrendered their unbeaten data.
It was a very laborious capsule to swallow for Talbott who was an enormous -1200 favourite to come back out on prime towards Raoni Barcelos within the night’s featured preliminary bout.
The loss dropped Talbott to 9-1. Nakamura was additionally handed his first loss towards Muin Gafurov after profitable 9 in a row whereas Carpenter fell to 8-1 total following his unanimous resolution defeat by the hands of Tagir Ulanbekov.
