Following Saturday’s UFC 277 occasion at American Airlines Center in Dallas, UFC president Dana White introduced the recipients of the performance-primarily based totally bonuses.

Fight Of The Night: Brandon Moreno vs Kai Kara-France

A rematch almost 3 years withinside the making concluded with Mexico’s Brandon Moreno claiming his spot because the meantime UFC flyweight champion following a 0.33-spherical end over Kai Kara-France of New Zealand.

After a lower back-and-forth first spherical, Moreno did strong paintings of evading Kara-France’s stress and proper hand to strengthen to an thrilling 0.33 spherical. In the 0.33, Moreno turned into reduce beneathneath his eye via way of means of the Kiwi following a sweep and quick series of heavy ground-and-pound moves, however it didn’t prevent him from touchdown an excellent kick flush to the liver, losing Kara-France earlier than completing him off with moves from the pinnacle earlier than referee Herb Dean stepped in with simply 26 seconds to move withinside the 0.33 spherical.

A capacity fourth combat withinside the Moreno-Figueiredo saga turned into installation withinside the Octagon whilst the undisputed flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo joined Moreno for a quick however respectful faceoff, including that he’d want to unify the flyweight department in his local Brazil.

Performance Of The Night: Alexandre Pantoja

With meantime flyweight gold on the road later withinside the night, Alexandre Pantoja staked his declare at a crack on the identify himself whilst he blitzed Alex Perez and sunk in a first-spherical submission much less than  mins into the outlet frame.

From the jump, Pantoja jumped on Perez, peppering him with punch and swarming him wholly. Soon, Perez subsidized up and Pantoja performed a lovely lower back-take, locking withinside the frame triangle at the same time as Perez stood towards the cage and centered on combating hands. Pantoja remained livid in his tries to complete the combat, and locked in a rear bare choke that wasn’t beneathneath the chin however positioned sufficient stress on Perez’s jaw and neck to get the tapout victory.

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Performance Of The Night: Drew Dober

Colorado’s Drew Dober stated he usually brings his chin and his heavy left hand to the Octagon, and he additionally depended on his grittiness to get a knockout win over Rafael Alves withinside the 0.33 spherical.

After weathering the early typhoon from the explosive Alves, Dober commenced to paintings Alves’ frame because the Brazilian tired. Although Alves slugged it out with Dober to stop the second, Dober without a doubt had received momentum and manage of the combat. The excessive tempo endured withinside the 0.33 spherical, and reputedly out of nowhere, Dober related with a wonderfully located left hook to the frame that melted Alves and earned Dober any other stoppage victory.