A fighter from Makhachkala, Magomed Zainukov, entered the fight against Yerzhan Manarbek with a knee injury, RCC reported to .
The fight of the RCC Intro 31 tournament, which takes place in Yekaterinburg, ended in the first round: the referee stopped the fight, recording Zainukov’s victory.
After the fight, Zainukov said that he had already suffered a serious leg injury, but the UFC champion Islam Makhachev forbade him to withdraw from the fight.
— In exactly three weeks, I injured my leg and damaged the lateral meniscus. I haven’t been training for the last two weeks, I’ve only been working on boxing. Islam wrote to me yesterday and asked how my leg was. I said, “Well, that hurts.” Islam said: “Then cut it off and go into battle,” Zainukov said.
Magomed Zainukov, 29, represents the school of Abdulman Nurmagomedov. The victory in Yekaterinburg was the fifth of his career.
Source : MatchTV
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