Koscheck, Johnson, and Nogueira Awarded UFC 106 Bonuses
Josh Koscheck, Anthony Johnson, and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira were the recipients of the “fight night” bonuses for Saturday’s UFC 106 event is Las Vegas, UFC President Dana White announced at the card’s post-fight press conference.
Koscheck earned “Submission of the Night” by forcing Johnson to tap to a rear naked choke in the second-round of their UFC 106 co-headliner, while the bout also earned the pair “Fight of the Night” honors. Nogueira took home “Knockout of the Night” for his first-round KO of Luiz Cane in his UFC debut.
With $70,000 being awarded for each bonus, Koscheck receives an extra $140,000, while Johnson and Nogueira each earned an additional $70,000.
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sadollah and boroni should have got fight of the night. What’s up with giving bonuses to the same fighter like that?
Bzul3 makes a good comment, but I must agree.
Since Baroni had no biz, earning himeself back in the octagon, him getting cut in the neaxt week or so will prove a true feeder status and name to the bout.
No, cuz in order to win Fight of Night, both fighters need to have a good showing, and while Phil did display heart, he was just getting pounded by Amir most of the fight.
One of the best things about the UFC is that you CAN double dip on bonus, come on its not a boxing match, thank god.
Phil put on a better showing than getting owned on the ground like Johnson. FOTN should be the best fight of the night, and Kos v. Rumble was not that. Like I said below, this was there thank you for coming in on short notice.
I think Koscheck and Johnson were rewarded more so for stepping up to the plate and fighting each on short notice. But it was a really good fight. I think Forrest and Tito’s match edged this one out by little bit. You can even make a very strong arguement for Amir vs Baroni too.
I agree, I think the FotN bonus was Dana’s “thank you” for them stepping up on short notice.
Not to take anything away from the men who were awarded the FoTN bonuses, but I’m not sure how Griffin-Ortiz isn’t Fight of the Night…
Yeah, Koscheck and Johnson was a pretty good fight, but not fight of the night. Not with all those fouls. Ortiz v Griffin or Sadollah v Baroni should have gotten it. That’s a buttload of money on the line.
how anyone can put koscheck/johnson as fight of the night is beyond me. The fight was riddled with stupid things like koschecks ‘left eye poke’ acting perfformance, johnsons illegal knee, and then koscheck actually giving a nice big poke to johnsons eyes…in between that junk and the time they were split up being longer than the actual fight, it should not even be in contention for FotN.
kos is a **** for faking an eye injury and should have been disqualified
I see where you’re coming from, but although he was more than likely faking dont forget that he did have as much time as he wanted because he was knee while down. I figure as long as he didnt quit and take the win then it was just good strategy.
I really liked the Saunders vs Davis. And considering Saunders schooled and brutally KOd a man who in 3 years and 9 previous fights in the UFC had never been stopped (he was stopped 10 fights ago by cut by Guillard 4 years ago), he deserves that KO of the Night bonus. Give Killa B his money!!!!!
Agreed.
Seeing Marcus Davis put down like that shocked the sh!t out of everyone [who knows MMA] watching 106 at my place last night.
Also, after Koscheck’s nonsense about his baby eye getting poked or whatever, and THEN poking Rumble I think twice, the LAST thing that type of bad behavior needs is positive financial reinforcement…
I think Kendall Grove’s triangle was a better sub win than Koscheck’s.
It might have had something to do with the fact that Kos was facing a higher level of competition in Rumble than Grove was in Rosholt, no offense to any of those guys intended…
I gave fight of the night honours to Sadollah v. Baroni…. hands down!
Sub of the night to Grove and KO of the night to Ben Saunders. Unfortunately it seems lately that these fighter bonuses are being given to the big name stars to increase their overall earnings and the little guy is being forgotten.
I was hoping Roggan would get to ask Kos about the knee to the head which clearly hit all arm and barely grazed the head of Koscheck. Yes the intent was there to knee a downed opponent in the head, which is a foul, but come on…. looked to me like Koscheck was faking an injury to buy himself time to recover. The eye he was complaining about didn’t even get hit and it looked fine in between round with no visible swelling. No wonder he ended the post fight interview so abruptly. Sucks that Johnson took a bad finger to the eye, that was the beginning of the end for him, if you ask me.
I want to know whats the criteria for FoTN honours.
IMO baroni and amir was good fight but it was on sided the whole way but exciting.
johnson and kos was up and down but nearly not that exciting but higher competition,
and tito and griffin was very competative but no one dominated
Just wondering how they figure it out or is it dana who he feels he wants to give it to he does, like the fight with anderson and forrest i really think he felt sorry for forrest thats why that wa awarded that FoTN imo
There is no criteria for “bonuses” from the ZUFFA “brass”, the KO of the night or SUB of the night or Fight of the night bonus’ is not a right it is a “gift” from the boss’ for putting on a great fight or whatever, ZUFFA by no means have to give out a dime other than what is contracted so if ZUFFA believes that KOS v AJ was a fight worth giving a monetary sum for than so be it……
Cheers for that fr702