The UFC handed out\u00a0four bonuses after Saturday’s card in Texas \u2013\u00a0and the main event winner double-dipped.<\/p>\n
After UFC\u00a0Fight Night 259, three fighters picked up an extra $50,000 \u2013 and in the case of one, $100K \u2013\u00a0for their performances at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio. Check out the winners below.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Performance of the Night: Santiago Luna<\/p>\n
Santiago Luna (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) got the arena popping off when he took out Quang Le (9-3 MMA, 1-3 UFC) with a rallied knockout to open the main card in his UFC debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Performance of the Night, Fight of the Night: Diego Lopes def. Jean Silva<\/p>\n
Diego Lopes (27-7 MMA, 6-2 UFC) had a great start to his featherweight main event against Jean Silva (16-3 MMA, 5-1 UFC) when he mounted him and rained down plenty of ground-and-pound. But Silva worked his way back into the fight and constantly threatened Lopes with kicks and slick spinning attacks. That led a thrilling nearly 10 minutes in the headliner \u2013 right until Lopes threw the same kind of spinning elbow Silva had been trying to land and caught him with it. A few punches later, Silva had the first loss of his UFC run \u2013\u00a0and another gut punch for the Fighting Nerds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC handed out\u00a0four bonuses after Saturday’s card in Texas \u2013\u00a0and the main event winner double-dipped. After UFC\u00a0Fight…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":225710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,648,21573,21574,50,450,1457,1451,7202,7203,62,1458,358,3187,552,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-225709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-arts","tag-martial","tag-martial-arts","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-ufc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115201706851893519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}