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4. Chris Weidman vs. Kelvin Gastelum
UFC on Fox 25
July 22, 2017 | Uniondale, New York
Weidman pried his way back into the conversation in the Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight division. The former champion broke a three-fight losing streak and regained his footing at 185 pounds, as he submitted “The Ultimate Fighter 17” winner Kelvin Gastelum with a third-round arm-triangle choke at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Finished for the first time in his career, Gastelum bowed out 3:45 into Round 3. Weidman had to work for it. Gastelum had him in serious danger near the end of the first round, where he floored the Serra-Longo Fight Team star with an overhand left behind the ear. Weidman hit the deck glassy-eyed but recovered quickly and benefited from the respite between rounds. He executed five of his seven takedowns in the second and third rounds, per FightMetric, and kept the slippery Gastelum bottled up on the canvas. Roughly a minute into Round 3, he moved toward mount and caught the arm-triangle. His squeeze proved too much for Gastelum to overcome.

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