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UFC Winnipeg Bonuses: Headliner hauls it in

BAD MMA News — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:39:12 +0000

UFC Winnipeg is in the books. The 12-bout event took place on Saturday at Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The fight card was headlined by a welterweight bout between former title challenger Gilbert Burns and rising Canadian star Mike Malott .

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UFC 314 Bonuses: Paddy Pimblett banks a check for dominating performance

BAD MMA News — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:03:29 +0000

Following the UFC 314 fights inside Kaseya Center in Miami, Fla., UFC CEO Dana White announced the bonus winners from the fight card. The event was headlined by a featherweight title bout between former titleholder Alexander Volkanovski and No. 3 ranked Diego Lopes . The fight went the distance and Volkanovski regain the 145-pound championship via unanimous decision. Both fighters had big moments in the bout and earned ‘Fight of the Night’ honors. Two other ‘Performance of the Night’ bonuses were awarded by the fight promotion. The co-main event featured a lightweight match between former title challenger Michael Chandler and England’s Paddy Pimblett . Pimblett dominated the veteran and finished the fight via TKO in the third round

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Octagon newcomers bank bonuses at UFC Mexico City

BAD MMA News — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 08:19:45 +0000

Four fighters earned performance-based bonuses for their wins on Saturday on UFC Mexico: Moreno vs. Erceg fight card in Mexico City. Half of the four post-event bonuses, two of them, went to octagon newcomers.

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UFC 305 Bonuses: Kai Kara-France punched his way to a bonus with co-main event KO

BAD MMA News — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 07:13:41 +0000

Following the UFC 305 fights at RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, UFC officials announced the recipients of the performance-based fighter bonuses. Four fighters banked an extra $50,000 for the efforts inside the octagon: Dan Hooker, Mateusz Gamrot, Kai Kara-France and Carlos Prates. Fight Of The Night: Dan Hooker vs Mateusz Gamrot Dan Hooker and Mateusz Gamrot put on a show, delivering the back-and-forth battle everyone was hoping for.

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UFC Saudi Arabia: Robert Whittaker and three others bank bonuses

BAD MMA News — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:21:01 +0000

Following the conclusion of their first event in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, UFC officials announced the recipients of the coveted performance-based bonuses. Four fighters were awarded an extra $50,000 for their octagon performance: Robert Whittaker Volkan Oezdemir, Shara Magomedov, and Felipe Lima. Performance Of The Night: Robert Whittaker Making good on his promise to fight anyone, anywhere, Robert Whittaker didn’t back down when faced with dangerous newcomer Ikram Aliskerov as a short-notice replacement for Khamzat Chimaev . He didn’t even need a full two minutes to find the chin of his opponent with a swift uppercut that rocked the man riding a 7-fight win streak into the main event. Whittaker noted he’d be interested in being the backup fighter for the middleweight championship fight in Perth this August, and after peformances like this, who in their right mind would say no?

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UFC 302 Bonuses: Main event earns ‘Fight of the Night’

BAD MMA News — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:37:59 +0000

Following Saturday’s UFC 302 event at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, UFC officials announced the recipients of the performance-based bonuses. Lightweight champion Islam Makhachev double dipped, earning bonuses for ‘Fight of the Night,’ and a ‘Performance of the Night’ bonus for his fifth-round submission win over Dustin Poirier. Fight Of The Night: Islam Makhackev vs Dustin Poirier As we get a little distance from this fight, the magnitude of it will start to sink in a little more. Are we in the midst of the greatest lightweight championship run of all time? Did we just watch the great Dustin Poirier fight for the last time? It’s too much to contemplate on this beautiful evening in Newark, so we’ll just have to bask in the glow of an outstanding title fight that exemplified—over and over—why these two warriors will own a huge percentage of the UFC’s most memorable moments of this generation

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UFC Vegas 89 Bonuses: Prelim bout earns Fight of the Night

BAD MMA News — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 06:39:34 +0000

Saturday’s UFC Vegas 89 took place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Following the event, the fight promotion announced the fighters that earned a performance-based bonus. Four fighters took home an extra $50,000 for their wins on Saturday: Jarno Errens, Steven Nguyen, Payton Talbott, and Fernando Padilla were awarded the bonuses

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UFC Vegas 88 Bonuses: Marcin Tybura banks a bonus for main event finish

BAD MMA News — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 04:07:15 +0000

Four fighters earned “Performance of the Night” bonuses for their wins at UFC Vegas 88 on Saturday. The event took place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and was headlined by a heavyweight bout between ninth-ranked Tai Tuivasa and tenth-ranked Marcin Tybura. Tybura was among the four fighters that took home an extra $50,000.

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UFC 299 Bonuses: Sean O’Malley cashes in with main event win

BAD MMA News — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:09:49 +0000

Following the UFC 299 fights on Saturday in Miami, Fla., UFC CEO Dana White announced bonus winners during the event’s post-fight press conference. Sean O’Malley, Dustin Poirier, Benoit Saint Denis, Jack Dela Maddalena, Curtis Blaydes, and Robelis Despaigne each banked an extra $50,000 for their wins. “Fight of the Night, Dustin and Benoit. Performance of the Night, O’Malley, and we gave everybody who had a finish $50,000,” said White. Fight of the Night Fight of the Night honors went to the co-main event. Former interim lightweight champion Dustin Poirier faced the rising Benoit Saint Denis

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UFC 298 Bonuses: Ilia Topura banks a bonus for main event KO

BAD MMA News — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 08:49:48 +0000

UFC CEO Dana White announced the winners of the UFC 298 bonuses during the event’s post-fight press conference at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. on Saturday. Taking home the $50,00 bonuses were Ilia Topuria, Amanda Lemos, Mackenzie Dern, Anthony Hernandez, and Zhang Mingyang. Fight of the Night honors went to the women’s flyweight bout between Amanda Lemos and Mackenzie Dern

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