That first match is interesting -- Khamzat does a cartwheel/flip into a takedown that would be great in MMA but he gets flagged for it since it looks like he both kicked and kneed the guy in the head during the flip. He does a LOT of headbutts throughout the match, they look accidental and just due to his height, but he does "jump in" a lot which leads to the clashes. Also his handwork involves a lot of slaps, and one of them is just a pure slap and he gets called out on it. At the end he really is butt hurt and walks off like a punk ass bitch, there's no other way to put it.
In short, the match shows that MMA was definitely his future, all the stuff he did here is legal in MMA (not the headbutts but they would only warrant a "watch the heads!" from any MMA ref) and the cartwheel entry would be a crowd pleaser like Michel Pereira's flip against Poteria. And his antics at the end are pretty par for the course in MMA. He clearly wasn't meant for the constraints of organized amateur wrestling, MMA suits him a lot better.
It's also worth noting that his arm looks injured and taped up, and seems to bother him. Not sure how much it affected him or if he could have won at 100%.
