Highlights! Nzechukwu Elbows Roberson Into Oblivion

After two and a half rounds of submission attempts, Nzechukwu gave up the gentle art and went with some elbow bombs to finish Roberson.

It wasn’t pretty but Kennedy Nzechukwu managed to put away Karl Roberson in the third round of their UFC Vegas 58 fight.

Nzechukwu was larger than Roberson by a ridiculous amount and used that size to bully Roberson to the ground at the start of every round. For two and a half rounds he tried to land rear naked chokes on Roberson to no success. A head and arm choke in round three looked closer with Roberson clearly exhausted.

Two minutes into the third round and Nzechukwu finally abandoned the sloppy submission attempts and just started unloading elbows to the back of Roberson’s neck. Yeah, they were a bit iffy. The strikes that didn’t look borderline back of the head were even worse, landing right on Roberson’s neck.

Herb Dean didn’t seem too bothered by them, and waved the fight off at 2:19 declaring Nzechukwu the winner via TKO. Watch the finish below:

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