UFC 329 took place Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The promotion handed out 12 additional paychecks for the event.
The easiest of bonuses came when Max Holloway received $25K for a very early stoppage of his main event bout with Conor McGregor. Just seconds into the long-awaited return of McGregor, he hurt his right knee attempting to throw a kick. The bout was called off and Holloway was victorious.
In the co-main event, Paddy Pimblett earned a first round submission victory over Benoit Saint Denis. Pimblett used a d’arce choke (and then turned it into a peruvian neck-tie of sorts) to put out BSD. He received one of the $100K Performance Bonuses.
At the top of the main card, King Green earned a TKO for his stoppage of Terrance McKinney. Green, who was a feature on the Embedded episodes leading up to the event, overcame a game McKinney for the first round victory and $100K
The Fight of the Night went to Brandon Royval and Lone’er Kavanagh. Like most FOTN’s it was a extremely competitive back and forth fight. Eventually Royval was able to get a RNC on Kavanagh for the victory. Both did receive $100K for their effots.
The other $25K stoppage award winners were Gable Stevenson, Adrian Yanez, Robert Whittaker, Luke Riley, Damian Pinas, Ryan Gandra and Alessandro Costa.
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