Already in the first seconds of the fight, the Russian managed to shake his opponent with a “question mark kick”, and after a little more than two minutes, finish him with a choke from behind.
In the semi-final match of the Grand Prix, Nurmagomedov will face the winner of the quarter-final match between Brent Primus and Mansour Barnawi, and Henderson has officially announced that he is ending his professional career as a fighter.
In the co-main event of the event, Nurmagomedov’s compatriot Alexander Shabliy won a ticket to the semi-finals of the event, who in the third round finished the representative of Tajikistan Tofik Musaev with a frontal kick to the body.
The announcement of the winner in this fight was preceded by a small trial, since at first it seemed that the Russian’s opponent, who refused to continue the fight, was complaining about a blow to the groin, but the repetition left no doubt that the blow fell on the body, only tangentially hitting Musaev’s panties.
The next opponent of Alexander Shablia will be determined by the quarterfinal Grand Prix match between AJ McKee and Patricky Freire.
In the third most important event of the tournament, the former interim Bellator heavyweight champion, Valentin Moldavsky, suffered the first early defeat of his career, losing to Linton Vassell in the first round by knockout. In the middle of the round, the Russian recklessly went into an exchange with an opponent, missing a side kick from the right, and was knocked down, and the Briton took a dominant position from above and finished him off with elbows.
Among other results of the event, we note the early victory of the British welterweight Michael Page, who in the 26th second of the fight struck a low-kick and injured Goichi Yamauchi.
All results of the Bellator 292 tournament.