Did you see this Alex Garcia KO at UFC 207? He said a follow-up punch was unneeded

LAS VEGAS – Alex Garcia had the opportunity to put an extra exclamation point on his UFC 207 victory. He said it wasn’t needed, though, especially since he respects his opponent so much.

In an FS1-televised preliminary-card bout at Friday’s UFC 207 event, Garcia (14-3 MMA, 4-2 UFC) silenced Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena with a brutal one-punch knockout of veteran welterweight Mike Pyle (27-13-1 MMA, 10-8 UFC).

Here’s the blow (via Twitter):

Garcia, who picked up a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” bonus with the victory, scored his first knockout since a UFC-debut victory over Ben Wall in 2013. It was such a clear-cut KO that Garcia held back on delivering a follow-up shot.

“I felt when I landed the right punch, it was pretty hard,” Garcia said after the event. “His whole face was in my right hand. When I looked, his eyes (were rolled back), so I thought he was out. But I just stepped over to make sure.”

Once Pyle was alert and on a stool, Garcia gave him some words of encouragement.

“I said to him I look up to him because he’s been fighting for a long time,” Garcia said. “He’s 41 years old. Not many fighters can be 41 and keep fighting. When I started my career, he was already fighting.

“It was an honor to fight him.”

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