For the better part of the opening round on Saturday night, Kelvin Gastelum looked every bit an overmatched, undersized middleweight.
Gastelum, forced up to 185 pounds by frequent issues at 170, was outgrappled by the larger Tim Kennedy at Toronto's Air Canada Centre.
But then Gastelum found his fight. And his striking game. And he started taking it to the musclebound Kennedy. The TUF 17 winner scored one of the biggest victories of his career with a TKO finish at 2:45 of the third round at UFC 206.
It capped a frantic month for the Yuma, Ariz.