This bears repeating: 2021 has not been kind to limbs. And today, we bring you another example of why that statement continues to ring true.
On Saturday night, Absolute Championship Akhmat (ACA) held ACA: Young Eagles 19, where Rustambek Nurzhanov met Abdul-Malik Saidulaev in a featherweight fight. Both men took to the center of the cage and started exchanging strikes before Saidulaev pressed forward and backed Nurzhanov up towards the cage. Nurzhanov would shoot in for a takedown and brought Saidulaev to the ground with a throw. He quickly moved into full mount without much resistance from Saidulaev, but there was a reason for that.