Four fighters walked away with $50,000 bonuses in a night filled with finishes at UFC on ESPN 62 on Saturday.
delivered as advertised in the UFC Vegas 96 headliner at The Apex in Las Vegas. While Borralho took the lead in the first round, Cannonier regained some momentum as the fight progressed. Both fighters rocked each other, going toe-to-toe in a barnburner that had many online scorecards tied at two rounds each way going into Round 5. Borralho knocked down Cannonier a final time in the last stanza to seal a unanimous decision victory.
“GM 3” was dominated by Shahbazyan for the better part of two rounds before he turned the tables by forcing a tap with an arm triangle with less than a minute left in the second period. to earn the other POTN bonus. The second biggest betting favorite on the card, Moraes knocked Magny down with a brutal elbow and rained devastating ground-and-pound to secure a stoppage in the final seconds of the opening frame.
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