{"id":450354,"date":"2026-01-31T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/450354\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:56:08","slug":"ufc-contender-shavkat-rakhmonov-spotted-with-knee-brace-and-crutches-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/450354\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC contender Shavkat Rakhmonov spotted with knee brace and crutches | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If it wasn\u2019t for a lingering knee injury stemming from his decision win over Ian Machado Garry back in Dec. 2024 then Rakhmonov would have already fought for a UFC title. After all, Shavkat is 7-0 as a member of the UFC\u2019s welterweight division and he has finished six of those fights via knockout or submission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Unfortunately for Rakhmonov, he\u2019s still nursing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/12\/9\/24316918\/report-shavkat-rakhmonov-fought-at-ufc-310-with-injured-knee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">same knee injury<\/a> he aggravated over one year ago. Fight fans have been hopeful that \u201cNomad\u201d would finally be able to heal up and make his Octagon return, but it still appears Rakhmonov is having issues with his knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Saturday, Rakhmonov made an appearance at the Naiza FC 80 fight card in his own backyard of Kazakhstan. Rakhmonov is a pretty big star around those parts so he drew attention the second he entered the arena. That\u2019s when fans saw the UFC contender wobbling around with a knee brace and crutches. Not the best thing to see if you\u2019re waiting for Shavkat to make his UFC return in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check it out below and let us know when (or if) we\u2019ll ever see Rakhmonov fight again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If it wasn\u2019t for a lingering knee injury stemming from his decision win over Ian Machado Garry back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-450354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}