Felipe Silva (8-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC) battered and bruised a seemingly outmatched Claudio Puelles (8-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) for the better part of three rounds. Then he tapped out. The lightweight bout opened up the preliminary card of today’s UFC Fight Night 129 event at Movistar Arena in Santiago, Chile. It streamed on UFC Fight Pass ahead of additional prelims on FS2 and a main card on FS1. Silva was the busier man to open, looking to strike from range and finding some immediate success. However, a patient Puelles was able to push inside and drag the action to the floor, where he pulled away from a few triangle choke attempts while delivering a handful of strikes from the dominant position.
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