Featherweight Steve Garcia made a statement Saturday night in the main event of UFC Vegas 110 with his 15th KO\/TKO win at the expense of David Onama at 3:34 of Round 1. New Mexico’s Garcia (19-5 MMA) is already eying his next victim, which is none other than “BMF” champion Max Holloway (27-8 MMA).<\/p>\n
“I want the Rocky Balboa story,” Garcia said after the win. “I want the one with Max Holloway and the \u2018BMF’ title. I want that \u2018BMF’ Max Holloway champion (next).”<\/p>\n
Uganda’s Onama (14-3 MMA) had won his previous four fights, losing for the first time since August 2022.<\/p>\n
The co-headliner at heavyweight didn’t end without controversy. In a near-repeat of UFC 321’s main event, Tom Aspinall’s teammate, Ante Delija (26-7 MMA), invertedly eye-poked Waldo Cortes-Acosta midway through Round 1 on the verge of a would-be TKO win. Instead, Cortez-Acosta’s vision improved after being given five minutes of recovery time, and he turned the tables on Delija with a TKO win of his own.<\/p>\n
Cortez-Acosta (15-2 MMA) had a message for Aspinall.<\/p>\n
“I’m coming for you,” Cortez-Acosta said post-fight.<\/p>\n
Delija suffered his first UFC loss.<\/p>\n
In welterweight action, Jeremiah Wells’ ground-and-pound in Round 3 sealed a unanimous decision win against Themba Gorimbo, as all three judges scored the fight 29-28-29-28-29. Wells (13-4-1 MMA) snapped a two-fight losing skid, while Gorimbo (14-6 MMA) has dropped back-to-back fights following a four-fight winning streak between May 2023 and last October.<\/p>\n
The finishes kept coming, but this time, a bit faster and furious. In just under a round, Yadier del Valle made quick work of Isaac Dulgarian to secure a rear-naked choke to remain unbeaten. Del Valle (10-0 MMA) now has four submission wins, capping his year with consecutive rear-naked-choke victories. Meanwhile, Dulgarian (7-2 MMA) has split his last four fights, having not won consecutively since 2021-2022.<\/p>\n
Chicago’s Charles Radtke took the judges out of the equation with a third-round rear-naked choke against Daniel Frunza at welterweight. Radtke (11-5 MMA) is now 4-2 through his first six UFC outings, as Frunza (9-4 MMA) remains winless in the promotion.<\/p>\n
UFC Vegas 110 kicked off in style with flyweight Allan Nascimento securing a second-round anaconda submission against Cody Durden. Nascimento (22-6 MMA) has now won four in a row, while Durden (17-9-1 MMA) has lost three in a row and four of his last five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Featherweight Steve Garcia made a statement Saturday night in the main event of UFC Vegas 110 with his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-255923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}