Umar Magomednabiyevich Nurmagomedov is a Russian mixed martial artist of Avar ethnicity, born January 3, 1996, in Kizilyurt, Republic of Dagestan, a detail confirmed on his Wikipedia profile. He competes in the UFC’s bantamweight division and is widely known as a cousin of retired UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, though the connection that shapes his career most directly is closer to home. He is the older brother of Usman Nurmagomedov, the PFL and former Bellator lightweight champion, a family relationship detailed by Sportskeeda.

Umar was raised inside the same Dagestani wrestling and combat sambo system that produced Khabib and training partner Islam Makhachev, coming up under the late Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, Khabib’s father and the architect of that regional fighting pipeline. His official UFC athlete page lists him out of both Eagles MMA in Dagestan and American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, California, the two gyms where most of that family’s fighters have trained.

Before he ever competed in MMA, Umar built his reputation on the mat. At nineteen he won the -62kg division at the 2015 World Combat Sambo Federation championships in Moscow, and the following year he added a bantamweight gold medal at the WMMAA World Amateur MMA Championship, groundwork documented on his Wikipedia page. He turned professional on December 16, 2016, submitting Rishat Kharisov on a Fight Nights Global card in Moscow.

He spent the next four years building an unbeaten regional record on the Russian and European circuit while relocating training camps to San Jose to work under AKA head coach Javier Mendez. By the time the UFC signed him, he had already carried an undefeated record across more than a dozen professional fights, a build-up covered by ESPN once he reached the promotion’s bantamweight rankings.

Umar made his UFC debut on January 20, 2021, submitting Sergey Morozov, a fight that paid a disclosed purse of around $114,000 once his win bonus and sponsorship money were counted, according to a career earnings review by EssentiallySports. He followed it with wins over Brian Kelleher and Nate Maness before a January 14, 2023 knockout of Raoni Barcelos earned him a Performance of the Night bonus and pushed him into the division’s top ten.

That win streak, combined with his family name and a calm, technical style built on wrestling control, turned Umar from a prospect into a genuine contender, with ESPN’s coverage of the period noting he had reached a 15-0 professional record while sitting in the bantamweight top fifteen.

Umar’s signature win came on August 3, 2024, when he dominated former title challenger Cory Sandhagen over five rounds in a bantamweight title eliminator, sweeping the cards 50-45, 49-46 and 49-46 according to the official UFC judges’ scorecards. ESPN’s report on the fight noted he improved to 18-0 and had all but locked up the next shot at the belt.

That shot came on January 18, 2025, at UFC 311, where Umar lost his first professional fight, dropping a five round unanimous decision to Merab Dvalishvili for the bantamweight title in a bout that still earned both men a Fight of the Night bonus. He rebuilt from there, winning a decision over Mario Bautista in October 2025 and then defeating former two-time flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo by unanimous decision at UFC 324 on January 25, 2026, a result covered by CBS Sports, which improved his career record to 20 wins and 1 loss.

Umar’s UFC profile has him ranked among the division’s top contenders through the middle of 2026, a position built almost entirely on in-cage results rather than crossover media work. His story has always carried an extra layer of attention because of his surname, and outlets like ESPN have leaned on the “Khabib’s cousin” framing for years to introduce him to casual fans who otherwise would not follow the bantamweight division closely.

The Fight of the Night bonus he earned in a losing effort against Dvalishvili at UFC 311 is itself a marker of how his profile has grown, since that award reflects how the promotion and its broadcast partners rated the entertainment value of the fight rather than simply the result.

Umar’s most visible personal sponsor is Gorilla Energy, an energy drink brand he promotes regularly on his own social media, a partnership highlighted by both FirstSportz and EssentiallySports, with FirstSportz also listing a Toyota partnership among his brand deals. Neither outlet publishes the financial terms of these arrangements, and no audited endorsement income figure has been made public.

Like every fighter on the current roster, Umar also competes in gear supplied under the UFC’s promotion-wide outfitting agreement with Venum, which replaced the previous Reebok deal in 2021. That arrangement pays fighters compliance and incentive money tied to win bonuses and performance rather than a separate individual endorsement contract.

Umar has not publicly disclosed any standalone company, franchise or ownership stake outside of his fighting career. Financial write-ups of his earnings, including one from FirstSportz, describe his income as coming almost entirely from UFC purses, bonuses and a small number of endorsement deals rather than any outside business he founded or holds equity in.

That pattern is consistent with reporting from Sportskeeda, which likewise frames his finances around fight income rather than commercial ventures, reflecting a career still centered on climbing the bantamweight rankings rather than building a business portfolio around his name.

Umar has not disclosed any real estate holdings, and no state or public record ties a specific home or property to him. FirstSportz draws an explicit contrast with his cousin Khabib’s well documented estate in Dagestan, writing that Umar’s own residence “is not a big house,” with no further detail on its location or value.

On the vehicle side, EssentiallySports reports that he drives a white BMW i4, describing his overall lifestyle as disciplined rather than showy despite four years of rising UFC paydays. Beyond the car, no reliable public record of major asset ownership exists for him at this time.