Cane, Miller, Lytle, and Taylor Score $40K UFC 89 Bonuses
Luiz Cane, Jim Miller, Chris Lytle, and Paul Taylor each earned a $40,000 “Fight Night” bonus for their efforts at UFC 89 on Saturday at the NIA Arena in Birmingham, England.
Luiz Cane scored his second-straight UFC victory with a second round TKO due to strikes of feared light heavy knockout artist Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou to earn the “Knockout of the Night” bonus.
Making his UFC debut, lightweight Jim Miller submitted David Baron with a textbook rear naked choke midway through the third round of their preliminary fight to win the “Submission of the Night” award. This bout is now available for viewing on UFC.com.
Welterweights Chris Lytle and Paul Taylor went toe-to-toe in a three-round standup brawl to earn “Fight of the Night” honors.
While still a large sum, especially for preliminary card fighters, the $40,000 bonuses are down from the $60,000 “Fight Night” bonuses following UFC 88 in September, which aired on pay-per-view, and $50,000 bonuses for UFC 85 in June, which also took place in the UK and aired on Spike TV.
For a complete recap of UFC 89 “Bisping vs. Leben” click here.
Tags: Chris Lytle, jim miller, Luiz Cane, Paul Taylor
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Could the Bonuses be down from other recent PPV’S becuase they we payed in Great British Pounds? Just a thought. Wish I was given $40.000 though! lol
I am not so sure there was a fight of the night….then again, if fighters did “HAVE” to be rewarded, $40,000 is more than fair. Those of you who bashed this fight card were right. It did not turn out too great. I was wrong. The figters were given a chance to make the card very memorable and did the exact opposite making it the least memorable event of the year. All of the fight nights have been better than last nights event. I’ll give it to Bisping for countering with clean punches but he never once pushed the pace. If Bisping cannot exchange with Leben, engage in a stand up or ground war, HOW THE F COULD HE EVER STAND A CHANCE AGAINST SILVA? All of you who want that match just stop it. Seriously! Stop it.
hey KOuch most people no im a big fan of the count but i also like to be realastic, at this moment in time yeah silva would beat bisping down, haveing said that i belive in a years time he will be ready, i said bisping would beat leban pritty easy i was right, ive also said in the past that i want to see bisping vs hendo looks like im guna get my wish, the only people in the ufc MW div that would beat bisping down at the moment is nate and silva, anyone else bring in on, i will back the count all the way.
also sokoudjou reminds me of alexander, they both suck!! but i would want to see them fight each other
Fight of the night was well earned, although some of the up against the fence may have been a little slow, they cam out brawling & gave it everything they had. They were both exhausted at the end.
No worries KOuch, I took care of the double post.
Kouch,
Thanks for your honest blog. As I stated many times over, the UK UFC PPVs are boring. Nothing exciting and not the top fighters.
The Affliction PPV and the 1st and 3rd CBS Elite XC were far superior to any UK UFC. No one would have paid for this one. It was good, but only as good as Spike TV’s UFC Fight Nights. Leban was the aggressor and should have won. This reminds me of Bising vs. Hammill. That should have gone to Hammil also.
I am expecting a lot for UFC 90, but I am not hearing anything from my MMA buddies or customers that will watch it my restaurant/bar. Everyone talks about Randy vs. Brock.
the card wasn’t the best because it was free, all dana needed to do was sell tickets so he put the count on the card, hes not guna put other really big names on cos he can use them in the usa and get 40 dollers off u lot, dana is a smart dude, any how i enjoyed last nite
JOHNBOY,
I think a good submission artist could take Bisping without too much difficulty. I can see both Maia and Palhares subbing Bisping, as he’s never really faced anyone with a decent sub game other than Eric Schafer and Elvis Sinosic…and those two aren’t exactly at the top of the heap.
Johnboy,
The card was free, because all of the UK PPVs do not sell well. So Dana gets a little bit of money by SPIKE, and advertises the heck for the next one for free.
The biggest problem is, it’s live at 3pm on the east coast and noon on the west coast. No one is paying for that. But all the UK cards were flat.
Maybe it’s too far for Japanese fighters and Brazilians to travel. (Just a joke)
ummm…. did I miss something… I thought sanchez was out and koschek was supposed to fight alves next week…
Kouch, once again you prove to be a gentleman and a scholar. How you managed that post without once bashing Bisping is beyond me. hehe
Champagne, kos is in. You are probably asking because of the ad you saw on spike. I would assume they didn’t want to spend the money to change the ad. It happens all the time.
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Leben was right imo.. bisping was scared… i like both fighters but what leben did at the fight was pretty crazy and showing everyone that bisping was running away.. but that’s just my opinion. card blew. next week better be better
Was a typical night of free fights . There were good fights and there were bad ones . Thats the way it goes , i have yet to see a card where every fight is a colossal battle .But the one I enjoyed was the cane vs soukoujou brawl . back and forth .. good kicks and punches . and a KO ending in the second so we get to see a fight rather than a 19 second blow out .That was worth watching right there even though they arent top of the heap kinda guys .cane will be something for sure .. but soukoujou is done in the UFC , unless he will become the “gate keeper ” of the Lt heavyweight’s or rua’s next opponent .
Ethan,
The comments are funnier than shat about the pics. I enjoyed the pics but couldn’t stop laughing at the comments either. For some strange reason my wife doesn’t want to look at the pictures…..go figure….
DannyBoy,
Have I bashed Bisping in the past??? Sometimes I get so carried away with “exagerating” my thoughts I come across the wrong way. I have never really liked or disliked Bisping. My feelings depend on who he is fighting. Against Leben I thought he would win but wanted him to lose. Oh well…. One thing for sure is that he did not win in exciting fashion. He showed me that he still has a long way to go. He did admit that so more power to him. I do not see him as a champion unless Marquardt, Okami Hendo, others I cannot think of and obviously Silva are out of the division. Bisping is good….not great. Nothin special…yet..if ever…
KOuch,
Right on with the Bisping assesment. Not a big fan of the guy or the way he fights, I’m just not impressed. this card was bad, boring and put me to sleep.
timcat,
I didn’t think the card was that bad. The UFC has had better shows, but they’ve had lesser shows as well. The Bisping fight was entertaining to me because I was pulling for Bisping, and Leben looked dangerous the whole fight so I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see if he’d get that shot in. The Vera/Jardine fight was boring and I was really mad that Vera didn’t attack after buckling Jardine’s knee, he just stood there and looked at him while he shook it out, and tested it. The Cane/Suckyoudo(Sokoudjou) fight was entertaining until Suckyoudo gassed, I don’t think he puts enough into training. The Davis fight was pretty good I thought. The Lytle/Davis fight, I don’t know if it was just me, but there times in that fight where it looked like one of the fighters thought “Oh I’m about to finish him, I better give him a chance to recover, we can’t get fight of the night if we don’t go the whole distance.” And I thought both did this at times.
Justin,
You’re right on Vera not attacking. Vera is pulling a Mike Swick….dropping down and not looking so great in his first two fights. I understand cutting weight can tire a fighter out but this was Vera’s second fight since dropping….. I wanted to bet on Jardine and didn’t so F YOU VERA! Vera burst onto the scene with a few KOs and then got oversized/powered by Sylvia and G&P’d by Werdum.(If I recall correctly) Mike Swick burst onto the scene with a few KOs got overpowered and sent packing to the WW division by Okami and hasn’t looked good since. Could this be a common trend? In any case, I am starting to feel like Vera is on his way out of the UFC. I like his personality but as of late his career looks on the fall. Two losses at HW and he leaves the division to win a boring fight against Reese at LHW. Then Vera lost his second fight at LHW to Jardine who I feel gets a bad wrap for his KO losses from Silva and Houston. I try to keep in mind that he has picked apart Liddell and KO Griffin. Perhaps Vera took too big of a step up since moving down…I don’t know but I do hope he turns it around. As of now, not lookin’ good.
KOuch off topic but Josh Thompson v Yves Edwards for the title Nov 21st @ the HP Pavillion same card as Babalu v Southworth just letting you know
FR,
I just saw that!! This card may actually take interesting shape. Good lookin out. Sure hope Southworth gets KO!
was just reading an article on Sherdog about werdum and his thoughts on the Title picture . he doesnt think that the way things are going is fair to him and has a few things to say about lesnar , mir and couture …. check it out .he’s not being an a$$ , just voicing his opinion on things …… called mir past his prime and lesnar undeserving of a shot .
Should definately be a good card KOuch, I think Babalu will sub Southworth atleast I hope he does
Dr. Doom,
Actually he did not call Lesnar undeserving, he just said it he didn’t like it, and that it should have been Randy/Nog right off, not this tournament. He didn’t say much about Couture, just that he expects him to beat Lesnar, and then lose to big Nog. The way the article is worded does not give it a tone that he was being a jerk and/or disrespectful, just disappointed in the way things went down.
wow, i’m a little surprised at how many people didn’t like this card. i thought it sounded a little light compared to other cards but the lytle davis fight was awesome, definetly fight of the night. and although he lost, i thought leben put on a good performance, how can you not like an ending like that? i will agree on the one point though that the UK needs to start seein different faces or else it’s not goin to take off like they want. let bisping and all the uk guys fight on other cards and give the uk a brock fight, or another penn fight.
Justin ,
Thats what I meant about him not being an a$$ about it , he was just stating his opinion . But he is right …. it should have been nog vs couture to begin with .werdum isnt the type of guy to make waves and wouldnt go on the offensive about it . I dont like the fact that mir and lesnar get to fight these guys first before werdum , but if he’s cool with it then it’s up to him . besides if he was truly unhappy he could have left after this next fight and not signed a new 4 fight deal .Personally the only guy in that foursome who werdum would have problems with is Nog ……. other than that he has a good chance with the others . not saying he would dominate them , just win in the end .
yeah 2cups , seems alot of people were dissapointed with the card . Its free fights though right ? If we had to pay for it then it would be different . Im actually kinda jacked about the elite xc night of champions … alvarez vs diaz is going to be a sweet fight … and Im interested in the lawler vs joey val matchup .And its another free night of fights … free is good – paying for crap is not .
Dr.Doom,
I was agreeing with you about him just stating his opinion…didn’t mean to seem contradictory on that part. Maybe (I don’t know) when they agreed to the Mir/Nog fight Werdum had yet to sign his new contract, and therefore the UFC was not going to give him a title fight with only one fight left. Also, I’m pretty sure that the Nog/Mir fight was already signed and put into motion when Randy came back. Not sure about Werdum’s contract status at the signing of the Randy/Brock fight…its possible that if he hadn’t re-signed before the Mir/Nog fight was agreed upon, that maybe he hadn’t yet re-signed before the signing of the Randy/Brock fight. All that about the contracts is pure speculation on my part, but if I am right in my speculation, that he had not yet re-upped his contract, that gives the UFC a good excuse of why he wasn’t involved in the “tournament”.
HEY YO KRIS I WAS LOOKING AT THE RUMORS AT MMAWEEKLY.COM AND YOU SHOULD GO AND UPDATE YOUR RUMORS. IT APPEARS AFFLICTION GOT SCARED OFF AND RERE SCHEDULE TO THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND… “PUSSIES”
Justin ,
hear ya on the contract stuff , could be what happened . the only thing I have to say is that after this whole tourney is done werdum should be next in line for the champs first defense . If gonzaga gets a rematch before werdum then there is something wrong ….. and they are running out of notable heavyweights for werdum to square off with .maybe werdum should have fought mir and then the winner could have faced the winner of a nog – couture match .Lesnar should have been fighting gonzaga before he got a shot at either one of them .actually a fun fight would have been crocop vs lesnar , who wins that one ?
for all you lot getting the fight names wrong, it was not Lytle vs Davis, it was Lytle vs Taylor, and Davis vs Kelly. Obviously you were that thrilled to be watcing it you didn’t even notice the names.
And, shut the fuc.k up about bashing the card as a whole. You pratts getit fro free, **** about how sh1t it is, how the fights sucked, and that how it’s on at a difficult time of day, and, that Bisping, ( yet again in your eyes) was not a good fighter and should have done more, and that Leben should have won.
Well, I was there, it was amazing, the night was great. The prelims were good, altho you didn’t get to see it on your FREE, yes let’s remind you lot, FREE card. What the hell do you expect to see for piss all ?
All titles on the same night ?
get real.
If you are REAL mma fans you’ll appreciate the card for what it is, we had a few decent british guys fighting for us, and it was a buzz.
Sorry if the fights didn’t meet your high standards but quit ****ing about it COS YOU DIDN’T BLOODY PAY FOR IT.
Now get off your high horses and chill out.
You lot always get free cards from ther UK.
Don’t bothert watching anymore UK cards cos they are crap aren’t they boys?
Nah, didn’t think you could refuse a freebie no matter who it was fighting.
You guys will not be happy until Bisping beaats Anderson Silva, and that’s that. I mean, Rich Franklin lost twice to him, I don’t hear you barking on about how he sucks, Jesus.
I hope Bisping KO’s the **** out of Silva just to shut you lot up. Stop bashing him,
I love Silva but when / if he fights Bisping I would like Bisping to win.
Enough said. Ran over.
It just sometimes seems like it’s never enough, even for free.
and, whoever it was bashing Taylor vs Lytle for fight of the night, you are out of line mate.
They were slogging it out all the way, and if they did let off for a bit it was probably cos they burned up more energy in 3 rounds than alot of other guys. That was a bloody war, I totally enjoyed it, so how about you get your backsides in there and do better ?
I mean, come on you lot, nothing seems to please, not even fight of the night.
How childish to think they were holding off because of that, really.
Taylor is an animal and he loses wars not crappy fights, wars. He should have won against Lytle tho I think, and we brits were pissed off he didn’t .
No disrespect to Lytle, he made the fight a war with Taylor and that was what we wanted to see.
Ryan-S, preach son, now up until Bisbing ko’ing Silva I was with you nice to hear someone just throw a true bitter rant out there cheers….
FR702, hey man, what’s up ?
lol, I think I know at the end of the Day Silva is a machine, but, Bisping is NEVER gonna be respected until he does someone like Silva, and that’s how i feel so many oin here are going on about him. Oh yeah, let’s bring the Hamill fight up time and time and time again.
It’s the judges decision guys ?????
Anyhow, I like Bisping but just can’t hack the bashing he gets all the time. He’s doing just fine, nobody has really STOPPED him yet, not even the god-forsaken-HAMILL.
So there, Hamill couldn’t stop him, end of story.
I think I would like to see Bisping vs Marquardt as I feel it’ll be a good stand up.
People on here are bashin Bisping cos he back tracked some in the leben fight, so what? Machida does it permenantly and get’s a pat on the back.
Also, bisping sure did mess up leben’s face for him. So he must have done SOME damage guys, come on.
heres an Idea , stick bisping in with Paulo filho after he comes to the ufc . If bisping can beat him I would be impressed ….. but he won t and we all know it .Acually a bisping vs sonnen would also be a good test of his skills .Bisping has some talent , and he fights smart . unfortunately this makes for a lousy mma match …. if he was a boxer it would be good , but most mma fans wanna see it finished not left up to judges.
Ryan-S,
I was the one that said it seemed at times Lytle and Taylor backed off (not sure why I said Lytle/Davis in the actual comment, I know it was Taylor). I don’t disagree that they were fight of the night, and I don’t disagree that they were entertaining. I thoroughly enjoyed that fight. I recognize that I couldn’t do any better, at least not without training and getting some fights under my belt, but then I never said I could do better. To quote myself “I don’t know if it was just me, but there times in that fight where it looked like one of the fighters thought “Oh I’m about to finish him, I better give him a chance to recover, we can’t get fight of the night if we don’t go the whole distance.” And I thought both did this at times.” If I were to just watch that fight, not knowing that at the weigh-ins they had agreed to go for fight of the night, I would probably have not had any thought of them laying up to keep the fight going. The way I worded that, I was just throwing that out there, and I recognized that people would probably disagree, I wanted to get other peoples’ opinion to see if I was the only one that thought that or not. You attacking me personally saying I was out of line, and that I should get in there and try to do better was uncalled for.
ryan-s , how do you really feel? hahaah. i think we were in agreement on all the points but i still feel like i just got yelled at for sayin davis by mistake, lol.
and to retort comment on the lytle decision, i coulda seen it goin either way on the stand up cuz both fighters had a grip of shots land, but after watchin the fight again, i think the takedowns are what put him over the top. it sucked that taylor had to lose cuz i really like that guy but as far as i’m concerned they both looked good and fight of the night will keep him movin up in the ranks as it did with guida.
and for bisping, everyone gettin pissed about what the critics say can do themselves a favor and read what’s bein put down 99% of the time. rarely are people saying he’s not a good fighter, just that he’s overrated. he gets hyped as this animal who’s runnin thru the middleweight division and leben is the first real 185er that he’s faced. he IS a good fighter, but he even admitted that he’s not at a level to be thinkin about title shots yet, and he also admitted that he always gets asked about it. that to me sounds like he himself knows he’s overhyped. and lookin at how he fought leben, yes he fought a smart fight and won hands down, but i think he was exposed a little as bein a bit scared of someone that wasn’t a weak opponent. he may have received the W but leben takin those shots at the end of the fight made it very clear that bisping wasn’t as crazy as many think. even with leben askin to get punched, bisping was still runnin backwards! what’s he gonna do against someone like hendo with an equally strong chin and in my opinion a much better offense than leben.
Watching the fight unfold I knew Bisping was going to win. He was doing just enough counter-punching and kicking to not make it look like he was running away (which I don’t think he was, but appearances and all..). Leben was clearly the aggressor throughout and pressed the fight, Bisping was content to sit back and counter-attack, which is fine for winning a fight but it can make for one helluva boring fight. Bisping was faster than Leben and the leg kicks slowed Chris down plenty so it was easy for the Count to get in there and out-point Leben.
Bisping said at the end that that was his game plan all along. It worked. It sucked to watch, but it worked, so more power to him there. It could be that this is the kinda stuff we’ll see out of him, adapting to his opponents style and trying to “survive to win”. It might not be pretty, but neither is a “lay-and-pray” win.
Justin, 2girls2cups ,
hey you lot, what’s up?
Youknow,
firstly I must apologise if it seemed I got a little heated with some comments, lol. We all have our own opinions, and I just thought that recently Bisping was getting a bit too much crap than he deserved.
Good comments about Taylor, I wasn’t aware they had agreed to go for fight of the night, and I also saw the weigh ins live, what a donut eh??
So, with that in mind, sorry you folks.
I am just also still buzzing from the fight night, and the weekend, so to hear it was crap tv viewing was not really what I expected.
Anyway, I cannot disagree that Bisping has a few fights before a title, and, I also think he’s not the best in the UFC either.
He will do good, but I just felt I had to toss in Anderson Silva as an expample of someone he’d have to beat to be respected.
Christ, I like Bisping more than Machida I think, don’t you?
Anyway, thanks for the replies guys, and no hard feelings,
I was just a little pissed off.
lol.
cheers
Ryan-S,
No hard feelings, mate. The problem with Bisping is that the Hammil fight, and his actions after the decision have really polarized a lot of people, they either hate him and think he’s terrible, or they love him and think he’s the best fighter in the world. Then when people that are really in the middle try to argue one way or another about a particular performance (like Sat. night) they get lumped into one of the extreme groups and attacked as such.