Umar Nurmagomedov suffered a damaged hand early into his UFC title tilt with Merab Davalishvili.
In a current put up on X, Nurmagomedov’s supervisor Ali Abdelaziz revealed that the beforehand undefeated bantamweight contender sustained a quite nasty damage within the opening spherical of Saturday’s co-main occasion with ‘The Machine’ in Los Angeles.
Instantly following the struggle, Nurmagomedov alluded to the chance that he could have damaged his hand in the course of the conflict, however Abdelaziz later confirmed the damage on social media.
“[Umar] broke his fingers first spherical no excuse no excuse Alhamdulillah for all the pieces,” Abdelaziz posted alongside and picture of Nurmagomedov’s swollen hand.
Regardless of the damage, Nurmagomedov gained the primary two rounds on two of the three judges’ scorecards, but it surely all started to slide away within the championship rounds after Dvalishvili’s speedy tempo overtook the struggle 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 amazing night time for fighters trying to hold their undefeated information 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 information.
It was a very onerous capsule to swallow for Talbott who was a large -1200 favourite to return out on prime in opposition to Raoni Barcelos within the night’s featured preliminary bout.
The loss dropped Talbott to 9-1. Nakamura was additionally handed his first loss in opposition to 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.
