UFC Fight Night 242 results: Steve Garcia defeats Kyle Nelson with unexpected punches

[Music] [Music] streaking featherweights were on Deck as Kyle Nelson and Steve Garcia fought to continue their winning ways at UFC Vegas 97 on Saturday night Nelson the first May 16 was earned a top 15 fight against Calvin Kar but due to injury the fight was sheld lucky for the monster Garcia stepped up on short notice and Nelson got a shot at making it four wins in a row he came into UFC Vegas 97 off victories over Blake Builder Fernando Padilla and Bill alio Garcia 16 to5 is one of the more underrated featherweights and came into this one on a four-fight win streak victories over Chase Hooper Shay on newer donek melaz El Costa and Sun Wu Choy set him up for a date with Nelson Steve Garcia found himself in deep water in the first 30 seconds of the first round allowing Nelson to take his back Nelson seemed to be taking things slow to control the position and look for a possible submission Nelson saw a chance to go for the arm bar and Garcia saw a chance to capitalize and slip out into top position Landing some of his nasty ground and pound Garcia landed some nasty elbows leaving a nod on the back of Nelson's head the upand cominging contender was able to hurt Nelson with a nasty elbow leading to the ground and pound finish Steve Garcia put on a great comeback performance in the first round and this was a huge win for his career Nelson is no easy task and Garcia proved he was up for the task winning his fifth fight in a row stating as a boy I was praying for moments like these praise God were going for it baby Bisping asked Garcia what was going through your mind when he had your back Garcia replied I'm a dummy [Music]

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