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Song flatlined Umar with an uppercut in the second round of their bantamweight clash in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Just as Song ended the UFC Shanghai headliner with some follow-up hammer-fists, Usman stormed the cage to check on his brother.
Song began celebrating and briefly crossed paths with a concerned Usman, who seemingly loaded up an instinctive elbow strike in the heat of the moment, but didn’t follow through.
Usman denies trying to hit Yadong Song after rushing toward the cage following Umar Nurmagomedov’s knockout
Usman took to social media in the aftermath of UFC Shanghai to address his brother’s first-ever professional loss via a finish and also touched on fans accusing him of trying to hit a celebrating Song. The Professional Fighters League star first downplayed the magnitude of Umar’s loss by putting things into perspective.
“People are making such a huge tragedy out of this, they should just calm down,” Usman wrote on Instagram in Russian. “There are things far worse. You don’t have to think for long, just look at what is happening in the world.”
He then denied that he intended to hit Song and slammed those criticizing him.
“And regarding the claims that I supposedly wanted to hit his opponent, if I had wanted to, I would have hit him,” Usman added. “You angry, petty, and jealous people. Your problem is that you have never had and never will never have an understanding of family love.”
Usman is currently a free agent, having exhausted his PFL contract. He is rumored to be signing with the UFC once his exclusive 90-day negotiation window with the PFL concludes.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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