Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2024-09-07, pretty good mma fight: Kyle Nelson vs Steve Garcia gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night – check out our rankings of Best Mma Fights of 2024).The Garcia vs Nelson fight is scheduled to take place on Saturday, September 7, at UFC Apex in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA)in a 3-round featherweight (145 lbs, 66 kg) fight; it was on the undercard of Gilbert Burns vs Sean Brady – UFC Vegas 97 (also known as UFC Fight Night 242 or UFC on ESPN+ 100). Watch the video and Rate this fight!
Kyle Nelson’s record
Kyle Nelson entered this fight with an MMA record of 16-5-1 (62% completion rate) and he is ranked as the world’s number 31 featherweight.
He lost two consecutive fights from 2020 to 2022 to Billy Quarantillo and Jai Herbert, but then he had a draw and three wins, defeating Fernando Padilla and Bill Algeo in his last two fights.
Steve Garcia’s record
His opponent, Steve Garciahave official records of 16-5-0 (81% ko/tko win ratio – he has never won by submission) and he enters the weight class at number 37 in the featherweight division.
He was defeated by Maheshate Hayisaer in 2022 but then he went on a four-fight winning streak beating Melquizael Costa and Seung Woo Choi in his last two.
Battle Card
Here’s the full UFC Vegas 97 schedule (we’ll update after weigh-ins):
MAIN CARD (live on ESPN+)
Gilbert Burns vs Sean Brady
Jessica Andrade vs. Natalia Silva
Kyle Nelson vs Steve Garcia
Cody Durden vs Matt Schnell
Trevor Peek vs Yanal Ashmoz
ENTRY CARD (live on ESPN+)
Zhu Rong vs Chris Padilla
Isaac Dulgarian vs Brendon Marotte
Andre Lima vs Felipe dos Santos
Zha Yi vs Gabriel Santos
Vanessa Demopoulos vs. Jaqueline Amorim
Andre Petroski vs Dylan Budka
Zygimantas Ramaska vs Nathan Fletcher
Full match video / highlights
Here we will post some of the best videos of the Kyle Nelson vs Steve Garcia match right after the match ended. If you have watched the whole match, you can rate it at the end of this post. (All videos are hosted on free video platforms like Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook, etc. and are not uploaded by AllTheBestFights.com)
Result
Who won the match between Nelson and Garcia?
Steve Garcia defeated Kyle Nelson by TKO at 3:59, round 1.
Post-match interview
Hear from the winner or two fighters after their fight, here is the UFC Vegas 97 post-fight interview with Kyle Nelson and Steve Garcia.
