{"id":872952,"date":"2026-08-29T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872952\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:34:10","slug":"umar-nurmagomedov-releases-statement-following-devastating-ufc-shanghai-knockout-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872952\/","title":{"rendered":"Umar Nurmagomedov releases statement following devastating UFC Shanghai knockout loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Umar Nurmagomedov is already looking ahead after a disappointing loss at the hands of Song Yadong at UFC Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shook up the bantamweight rankings<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s main event with a shocking second-round knockout of Nurmagomedov, who was finished for the first time in his career. Nurmagomedov was on a two-fight win streak and was working towards another championship opportunity, but now its Song who takes his place in the contender line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Shortly after the conclusion of UFC Shanghai, Nurmagomedov released a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcoS_sfT9kR\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cEverything is fine with me,\u201d Nurmagomedov wrote in Russian (English translation via Instagram). \u201cAlhamdulillah. Thank you so much to everyone who writes. I will work on the mistakes. And I will be back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Nurmagomedov (20-2) has now lost just twice as a pro, with his first defeat occurring at UFC 311 when he challenged Merab Dvalishvili for the bantamweight title. Dvalishvili won a hard-fought decision, and Nurmagomedov bounced back with wins over Deiveson Figueiredo and Mario Bautista. However, Song\u2019s incredible knockout now leaves Nurmagomedov in limbo as a win could have positioned him to face the winner of the upcoming UFC 333 main event trilogy bout between current champion Petr Yan and Dvalishvili on Oct. 24 in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Umar Nurmagomedov is already looking ahead after a disappointing loss at the hands of Song Yadong at UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-872952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872952","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=872952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}