Sam Stout, Joe Lauzon, Paul Daley, and Cole Miller each earned $50,000 “fight night” bonuses for their performances on Saturday at “UFC 108: Evans vs. Silva” in Las Vegas
The pay-per-view and Spike-televised event, which was headlined by light heavyweight contenders Rashad Evans and Thiago Silva, drew 13,255 fans to the MGM Grand Garden Arena for $2 million live gate.
Stout and Lauzon won “Fight of the Night” honors for their exciting lightweight brawl, Paul Daley scored “Knockout of the Night” for his first-round KO of Dustin Hazelett in the UFC 108 co-headliner, and Cole Miller took home “Submission of the Night” for his kimura of Dan Lauzon setup by an inverted triangle choke.
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Pictured: Sam Stout
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I’ve always like Miller, but the guy has to work on his stand up if he wants to contend.
Nice SoTN pick-up by Cole Miller…
Agreed and against a BJJ standout like Lauzon just makes itthat much more impressive IMO
How did Daley get a bonus if he came in overweight?
The NSAC wouldn’t allow him to cut the final pound, it isn’t like he came in crazy overweight, also he (Daley) lost only 10% of his purse not the “normal” 20%…. AJ didn’t recieve the KO of the night due to him coming in waay over weight, Daley was only a pound and Keith Kizer wouldn’t allow him to cut the last pound it wasn’t Daley’s decision
Besides….did you see it?? There was nothing of any comparison…
Makes sense I guess, thanks for the explanation. And dbiz, I didn’t watch it live and haven’t seen clips yet, I don’t care how Yahoo and the UFC spun it after, on paper going in it wasn’t worth the money to me, maybe free at Hooters or Wild Wings.
Didn’t mean to sound like I was attacking, no doubts from what I read that it wasn’t the KO of the night.
Well, the fights were worth seeing, and my money was well spent, IMO, so I guess you missed out. But at least you stood by what you said of not thinking it worth it, and also didn’t steal money from the fighters by streaming it.
Plus I’m not really sure that the NSAC, or any SAC for that matter, can dictate what bonuses the UFC, or again any MMA promotion for that matter, pays its fighters post-event.
Yes, they can penalize their purse, or stated payout, but I’m thinking that bonuses and undisclosed monies are a bit out of their arm’s reach…