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 moderately nasty damage within the opening spherical of Saturday’s co-main occasion with ‘The Machine’ in Los Angeles.
Instantly following the combat, Nurmagomedov alluded to the chance that he could have damaged his hand through the conflict, however Abdelaziz later confirmed the damage on social media.
“[Umar] broke his fingers first spherical no excuse no excuse Alhamdulillah for the whole lot,” 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, nevertheless it all started to slide away within the championship rounds after Dvalishvili’s speedy tempo overtook the combat 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 tablet to swallow for Talbott who was a large -1200 favourite to come back out on high 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 successful 9 in a row whereas Carpenter fell to 8-1 total following his unanimous choice defeat by the hands of Tagir Ulanbekov.
