A number of UFC 311 athletes are facing lengthy medical suspensions from training and fighting following their participation in bouts at the first big pay-per-view event of the year, which took place on Saturday, the 18th of January at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California.
One of the lengthier medical suspensions that the California State Athletic Commission administered, which are relatively routine after most combat sports events whether mixed martial arts or boxing, was handed to Umar Nurmagomedov, who has been ordered to rest for a mandatory seven-day period after the event, with a possible suspension of up to 180 days unless he’s cleared to return to sparring, and competition, from a physician.
This is on account of a fracture to his left hand — an injury that he detailed with photographs on his official social media accounts.
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UFC 311 Medical Suspensions
A number of fighters have been told to take 6-month breaks
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Interestingly, Merab Dvalishvili, who defeated Nurmagomedov in impressive fashion after 25 minutes of fighting, has only been ordered to take seven days rest, with no mention of a medical suspension, even though he detailed, at length, a horror injury which he took into the cage with him.
Other athletes who face lengthy spells on the sidelines include Jiri Prochazka (45 days), Jamahal Hill (45 days), Kevin Holland (60 days), Jailton Almeida (180 days), and Bogdan Guskov (180 days).
Most athletes were told to just take seven days rest period, including the main event fighter Islam Makhachev, who retained his UFC lightweight championship belt with a thumping first-round win over Renato Moicano.
UFC 311 was the MMA market-leading firm’s second event of the year, after a Fight Night show the week prior at its UFC Apex studio in Las Vegas. It pauses its live events business this week, but returns with another Fight Night event on Saturday, the 1st of February at the ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Israel Adesanya looks to get back in the win column after suffering successive losses to Sean Strickland and Dricus du Plessis. Adesanya fights Nassourdine Imavov at the top of a 12-bout fight card which also includes the surging popular prizefighter Sharabutdin Magomedov against Michael Page.
The following week, on February 9 (local time), UFC hosts UFC 312 from the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia.
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