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Round 1
This afternoon card all on ESPN+ is a shorter one, with just nine
fights remaining on the billing. Short fight nights call for short
introductions, and the show begins with a tilt between lightweights
in Garcia (11-4, 0-1 UFC) and Ontiveros (11-7, 0-1 UFC) that are
both looking for their first win in a new division. While Garcia is
moving up from featherweight, Ontiveros is shifting down from
middleweight to 155 pounds, and they meet literally and
figuratively in the middle but do not touch gloves in front of
referee Chris Tognoni. Ontiveros starts off wit ha solid right
hand, and he tags Garcia with a few punches. Garcia falls to his
back as he gets wobbled with shots, but Ontiveros lets him back up.
Garcia charges like a bull, still a little stiff on his feet, and
he walks into an axe kick. Garcia falls forward when getting
drilled with a quick right hand, his second knockdown in rapid
succession. As Ontiveros tries to finish the job, “Mean Machine”
takes the wind out of his sails with a desperation takedown.
Ontiveros looks irritated with himself for allowing himself to hit
the canvas, and he pushes off the wall and tries to set up an
armbar to no avail. Ontiveros closes his guard, and Garcia sits up
and smacks him with a few punches to disrupt Ontiveros getting to
his feet. “The American Bad Boy” ignores them as he powers back up,
only to succumb to a mat return shortly thereafter. Ontiveros
slashes out with an elbow, and Garcia ducks his head down to start
suffocating his Texas-based opponent with top control. Garcia holds
on, laying on Ontiveros’ chest in a tender position, until he
postures up to get off a little ground-and-pound. “Mean Machine”
uses his placement to jam Ontiveros’ neck against the wall so that
he is trapped down, and he works Ontiveros over with elbows and
punches until Ontiveros kicks him off. Garcia lowers himself back
down, and as he does, Ontiveros spins with his legs off the cage to
result in a north-south position. Garcia isolates an arm so that he
can blast Ontiveros with an elbow, and the single elbow opens up a
huge cut on the blonde-haired Ontiveros’ eye. Ontiveros rolls
through and gets nailed with a left hand from above, and Garcia
finishes off the round with strikes until the horn sounds.
Ontiveros appears a bit worse for wear when he stands back up, but
he does make it back to his corner.
Sherdog Scores
Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Garcia
Brian Knapp scores the round: 10-10
Tristen Critchfield scores the round: 10-9 Garcia
Round 2
Garcia comes out a man possessed out of his corner, winging a huge
right hand that stings his opponent. As a wild flurry ensues,
Ontiveros is the one who sticks him with strikes and puts Garcia on
his knees early. “Mean Machine” realizes that fighting on the feet
may not be his best strategy, so he ducks down into a double leg
takedown. Ontiveros aims to defend with a guillotine choke, but
Garcia pushes through it and climbs on top. Garcia advances
smoothly to side control, before claiming full mount as he hammers
Ontiveros with elbows. From above, Garcia thumps his shoulder down
on the damaged eye, shaking Ontiveros up with them. Knowing that
“The American Bad Boy” is firmly entrenched in the danger zone,
Garcia postures up and slams his fists into Ontiveros face again
and again. The strikes are unanswered and largely undefended, as
Garcia batters Ontiveros with punches like Lou did to Tyler Durden
in “Fight Club.” Tognoni does not know where he’s been, until he
snaps to action and intervenes as blood sprays the canvas and
transforms Ontiveros’ mane into a brilliant shade of red. In his
post-fight interview, Garcia thanks UFC head Dana White for “believing in freedom.” What a violent way to start the day!
The Official Result
Steve Garcia def. Charlie Ontiveros R2 1:51 via TKO (Punches)
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