Now four days into the first loss of his career, Umar Nurmagomedov has a new souvenir from the experience.
Nurmagomedov early Thursday posted an image on his Instagram Stories of a screw in the index finger of his now surgically repaired broken left hand. The break, his manager said earlier in the week, came in the first round of his unanimous decision loss to champ Merab Dvalishvili in their UFC 311 bantamweight title fight this past Saturday.
Nurmagomedov (18-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC), a cousin of former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, was more than a 2-1 favorite in the fight as the challenger. He started well against Merab Dvalishvili (19-4 MMA, 12-2 UFC) in the co-main event, but faded in the final three rounds and dropped a unanimous decision.
Nurmagomedov won the first two rounds from two of the three judges, but dropped the next three. A third judge gave the fight to Dvalishvili 49-46. In addition, every media outlet tracked by MMA Decisions had the fight scored 48-47 for Dvalishvili.
Despite that, Nurmagomedov said he thinks he won the fight. The title defense was Dvalishvili’s first after he beat Sean O’Malley to win the belt in 2024.
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