Tai
Tuivasa needed to put in just 67 seconds of work to pad his
bank account by an extra $75,000.
The Australian received a “Performance of the Night” bonus at
UFC 264 for his first round knockout of Greg Hardy
in a featured heavyweight affair. After a couple Hardy right hands
put Tuivasa on wobbly legs, he responded with a massive left hook
that dropped the ex-NFL star. A few follow-up punches on the canvas
sealed Tuivasa’s victory.
Elsewhere, Sean
O’Malley and Kris
Moutinho captured “Fight of the Night” honors and $75,000
apiece for their main card bantamweight scrap. While O’Malley was
largely masterful in a dominant third-round TKO victory, Moutinho
undoubtedly raised his profile with a game performance on short
notice before the fight was halted.
Finally, Dricus Du
Plessis garnered the evening’s other $75,000 “Performance of
the Night” check by virtue of a second-round knockout of Trevin
Giles in a preliminary middleweight encounter. The former KSW
champ floored Giles with a right hand to the chin and finished the
contest with ground-and-pound at the 1:41 mark of Round 2.