A broken hand obviously diminishes your cardio

[Luckyme]

Cool, so does a leg and back injury that Merab fought with just in order to accommodate the challenger's religious practice of Ramadan.

Was Merab's leg and back fractured? All fighters have nagging injuries, Umar himself had an injury going into the fight. I'd say they were on a level playing field going into the fight and it was competitive until Umar gassed in the final rounds which the pain and adrenaline drain from an broken hand will do.

Merab didn't accommodate Umar. He was shamed into taking the fight after blatantly ducking Umar while calling out the likes of O'Malley and Yan whom he had already beaten.

Props to Merab for earning the win but let's not pretend he wasnt doing everything possible to avoid that fight.

 

[AmonTobin]

If you’re Umar, you’re not letting anything get in your way to the title not a cracked hand, not anything. Make no mistake. It was Merab who stopped him.

 

[Elegant]

Keep coping bozos

Merab OWNS Dagestan

 

[Bowel-forged Stool]

Arthritis is gonna zap my cardio. Better just focus on power

 

[Conan the K-9]

Merab our lord and savior!

Jokes aside, you all remember how Khamzat did against Usman and the explanation was because of broken hand he couldn’t finish Usman.
Then we all remember how much shit Costa got for not KOing Rockhold, in that case it didn’t matter that he had a broken hand.

Maybe broken hands only matter for certain fighters performances and especially cardio?