The reigning flyweight champion earned a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” bonus for his second-round submission of Kai Asakura in the UFC 310 headliner on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. After an entertaining first round, “The Cannibal” took his foe’s back in a scramble and eventually secured a rear-naked choke, rendering the former Rizin Fighting Federation title holder unconscious at the 2:05 mark of Round 2.
Elsewhere, Vicente Luque took home a $50,000 “Peformance of the Night” check by making short work of Themba Gorimbo in a preliminary welterweight showdown. The Kill Cliff FC representative rocked his foe with a right hook and shortly thereafter, locked in an anaconda choke to put Gorimbo to sleep just 52 seconds into the opening stanza.
In other action, Chase Hooper garnered a $50,000 “Performance of the Night”…