A UFC comeback is so sought after by an ex-veteran of the promotion that he is willing to drop a major MMA title and leave the sport, outright. The combatant in question is Zhalgas Zhumagulov, who is coming off of his attempt at cementing himself as a two-division champion under the Oktagon MMA banner.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, the verdict of that clash was a no-contest after an accidental low blow halted the contest between the European powerhouse\u2019s 125-pound and 135-pound titleholders. Zhumagulov came in as the flyweight champ, aiming for fellow ex-UFC vet Igor Severino\u2019s OMMA bantamweight belt, with the bout being waved off around the halfway mark of the second stanza.<\/p>\n
The message about potentially hanging up the gloves was conveyed by way of his X account @ZhakoZhumagulov<\/a>, as Zhumagulov said,<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve already been to the UFC. I\u2019ve fought my way back to the top and proved that I still belong among the best. If a return to the UFC isn\u2019t in my future, then I\u2019ll seriously consider walking away from the sport. No regrets. I\u2019ve given this game everything.\u201d<\/p>\n The UFC path of Zhalgas Zhumagulov and his MMA road since<\/p>\n While he debuted with the promotion riding a lot of momentum and the deeper context of who he fought matters, the UFC tenure of Zhalgas Zhumagulov did have more valleys than peaks. Entering the UFC off of a win over former UFC title challenger Ali Bagautinov, Zhumagulov would fall short in his promotional debut in a battle with Raulian Paiva. This came by way of unanimous decision at UFC 251: Kamaru Usman vs. Jorge Masvidal<\/a> and Zhumagulov then fell short against Amir Albazi on the Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor 2 card.<\/p>\n After a subsequent victory on the Poirier vs. McGregor 3 event versus Jerome Rivera, the Kazakhstan native would then go on a four-fight losing skid. Those losses did notably come to Manel Kape, Jeff Molina, Charles Johnson, and then a split decision loss to Joshua Van<\/a>.<\/p>\n After a pair of wins with Naiza FC, Zhumagulov then began his impressive run with Oktagon MMA and has not taken a loss in the sport since the narrow loss on points to the current reigning UFC flyweight champion, Van.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A UFC comeback is so sought after by an ex-veteran of the promotion that he is willing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,23733,82,640,168778],"class_list":["post-750182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-oktagon-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-zhalgas-zhumagulov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}