UFC Sacramento Bonuses: Main event takes Fight of the Night

Following Saturday’s UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs. Rodrigues event at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif., UFC CEO Dana White announced the recipients of the performance-bases bonuses.

Fight of the Night honors went to the main event. No. 7 ranked middleweight Anthony Hernandez and No. 10 ranked Gregory Rodrigues headlined the fight card and did not disappoint. Rodrigues won via unanimous decision but the match will likely be a Fight of the Year candidate. The back and forth war earned each an extra $100,000.

Banking the other two Performance of the Night awards were lightweight MarQuel Mederos and women’s flyweight Carli Judice.

Mederos stopped Mason Jones in the second round via TKO due to elbows and punches. Judice scored a first-round finish over Jeisla Chaves in main card action. A front kick to the body set up fight-ending punches.

UFC Sacramento featured 13 bouts. 10 of them resulted in stoppages. The six other fighters that stopped their opponents received $25,000 finishing bonuses. 16,867 spectators were in attendance at Golden 1 Center generating $3.3 million is gate receipts.