UFC on ESPN 40 took place Saturday night at The Apex in Las Vegas. On a night with each fight ending in a stoppage, 5 fighters came away with $50,000 bonuses.
The feature fight of Jamahal Hill and Thiago Santos took the Fight of the Night Bonus. Hill pulled off the stoppage over a game Santos.
Bryan Battle executed a head kick which knocked out Takashi Sato in just 44 seconds into the first round.
Mohammed Usman won the TUF 30 Heavyweight crown with a KO of Zac Pauga in the second round. It was a counter left hook that dropped Pauga and earned the TUF 30 honors and a $50K bonus.
Geoff Neal may have had the performance of the night. Neal looked fantastic in a stoppage win over Vincente Luque. It was the first time anyone had knocked out Luque in his career.
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