UFC 189 got off to a slow start with lackluster preliminary bouts, but the main card came with the fire.
Brad Pickett and Thomas Almeida started the main card with a fun and competitive first round. In the second frame Almeida put a stop to the fight with a flying knee. Gunner Nelson flattened and submitted Brandon Thatch in the second fight to get back in the win column in emphatic fashion.
"The fighters over delivered," White said. Trended on social media like never before he says.
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Dennis Bermudez and Jeremy Stephens threw leather in the next bout, which ended with Stephens landing a knee that floored Bermudez.