Lo noquea! @NewMansa94
con otro tremendo KO!!!
#UFC255 pic.twitter.com/dZXpe4VmYu— ufcespanol (@UFCEspanol)
November 22, 2020
It probably won’t be a viral highlight, but Joaquin
Buckley’s latest knockout at
UFC 255 nonetheless made him $50,000 richer.
One fight removed from his “Knockout of the Year” candidate against
Impa
Kasanganay, Buckley received a “Performance of the Night” bonus
for his second-round finish of Jordan
Wright in a preliminary middleweight matchup on Saturday night
at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Buckley rocked Wright toward the end
of the first frame and his opponent was clearly still dazed at the
outset of Round 2. The St. Louis native then dropped Wright with a
left hook to end the bout 18 seconds into the period.
Elsewhere, Antonina
Shevchenko garnered the card’s other $50,000 “Performance of
the Night” award on the strength of a dominant victory against
former KSW champion Ariane
Lipski at flyweight. Shevchenko imposed her will on the ground
throughout and ended the contest with ground-and-pound from mount
4:33 into the second frame.
Finally, Sasha
Palatnikov and Louis Cosce
earned “Fight of the Night” honors and $50,000 apiece for their
wild welterweight scrap in the evening’s opening bout. Cosce
appeared to be on the verge of a finish on a couple occasions in
Round 1, but when the stoppage didn’t arrive, Palatnikov took
control down the stretch and finished his foe off with punches
after stuffing a takedown 2:27 into Round 3.