UFC Vegas 64 Bonuses: No ‘Battle of the Evening’ Awarded
Following Saturday’s UFC Vegas 64 occasion on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, the struggle promotion introduced the receipts of the performance-based bonuses. The struggle card featured 11 bouts and 9 resulted in finishes.
4 fighters earned ‘Efficiency of the Evening’ awards. Mario Bautista, Tamires Vidal, Polyana Viana and Neil Magny took house the $50,000 incentives.
Efficiency Of The Evening: Mario Bautista
Mario Bautista capped off his wonderful 2022 marketing campaign with a dominant victory over Benito Lopez. From begin to end Bautista was throughout Lopez, peppering him on the toes till he was in a position get Lopez to the canvas. He began dropping big elbows that pressured Lopez to squirm right into a triangle.
From there, Bautista locked in an armbar and secured the ninth armbar submission from a triangle in UFC historical past.
Massive issues are up for the rising bantamweight and it will likely be attention-grabbing to see who he’s matched up with subsequent.
Efficiency Of The Evening: Tamires Vidal
What a debut for Tamires Vidal. She danced her approach to the Octagon and danced her manner out with a TKO victory over Ramona Pascual that stemmed from a giant knee to the physique.
It was solely the third TKO in UFC girls’s historical past that stemmed from a knee strike. It’s at all times good so as to add your title to the likes of Ronda Rousey and Germaine de Randamie in your debut – the $50k bonus isn’t too shabby both.
Efficiency Of The Evening: Polyana Viana
It took lower than a minute for Polyana Viana to care for enterprise towards Jinh Yu Frey. The Brazilian strawweight linked on a livid combo of strikes that dropped Frey to the ground and made it an early evening for Viana.
Solely former champion Jessica Andrade and Rose Namajunas have extra strawweight finishes than Viana.
Efficiency Of The Evening: Neil Magny
Neil Magny handed Georges St-Pierre on the all-time welterweight wins checklist at UFC Battle Evening: Rodriguez vs Lemos. Magny’s twentieth win got here in third spherical of his intense bout with towards Daniel Rodriguez when he locked up a d’arce choke.
It was an important second for Magny, who has been considered one of MMA’s true good guys since becoming a member of the UFC in 2013. Not solely did he move GSP however he did it in type.
35-years-young and Magny nonetheless has loads extra within the tank to maintain including his file.
