Steve Nelmark is an American former

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. He competed in the

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division.

Nelmarking

Nelmark is perhaps most well known for his spectacular knockout loss to David Abbott. In it, he was crumpled underneath the cage, his legs bent under him, prompting audience members to shout "he dead." Since then, the act of getting knocked out in a similar spectacular fashion (with the key components being the legs tucked underneath, and the slump over the cage), has been called Nelmarking. Well known

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fighters that have Nelmarked are "Croatian Special Police member"

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in his humiliating loss against

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where his right leg was twisted underneath himself,

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in his loss to

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that became a

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because of the face of Evans while unconscious,

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's knockout of

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and recently

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's nelmarking of Ovince St. Preux at

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. At

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's knockout of Ben Saunders was noted as a fenceless Nelmarking.

Mixed martial arts record

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