{"id":429659,"date":"2023-03-11T09:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429659"},"modified":"2023-03-11T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:19:06","slug":"lightning-fast-nurmagomedov-with-first-round-win-over-henderson","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lightning-fast-nurmagomedov-with-first-round-win-over-henderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning fast Nurmagomedov gets first-round win over Henderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usman Nurmagomedov showed complete dominance over Benson Henderson as he earned a first-round submission win to defend his lightweight title at Bellator 292 in San Jose, California.<\/p>\n<p>Nurmagomedov, 24, dropped Henderson to the ground with a high kick before finishing the fight with a rear-naked choke.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Usman Nurmagomedov defends his lightweight title! \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bellator292?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bellator292<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BellatorMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BellatorMMA<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x1wvIFHFCd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/x1wvIFHFCd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN MMA (@espnmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1634418751994044417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nWith this win Nurmagomedov extends his unbeaten start to career to 17.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian also advances to the semi-finals of Bellator&#8217;s Lightweight Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Following defeat, American Henderson, 39, announced his retirement following a distinguished 17-year career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usman Nurmagomedov showed complete dominance over Benson Henderson as he earned a first-round submission win to defend his lightweight title at Bellator 292 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":429660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18148],"news_category":[16710,14084],"gn_keywords":[1093,18149],"acf":{"announce":"Russian fighter extends his unbeaten streak to 17","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429659"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429659"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}