Kevin
Holland, Alexander
Hernandez, Adrian
Yanez and Miles Johns
each received a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” check for their
work at
UFC Fight Night 181 on Saturday.
Holland overpowered Charlie
Ontiveros in their featured middleweight showdown at the UFC
Apex in Las Vegas. Early in Round 1, Holland secured a body lock
and slammed the Fury Fighting Championship veteran to the canvas.
The slam caused an apparent neck injury, which forced Ontiveros to
verbally submit 2:39 into Round 1.
Hernandez earned his performance bonus on the strength of a
first-round stoppage of Chris
Gruetzemacher in a preliminary lightweight clash. The Factory X
product had Gruetzemacher reeling early, as he dropped him with a
left hook, and when his opponent returned to his feet, Hernandez
teed off with a multi-punch combination for the TKO win at the 1:46
mark of Round 1.
Elsewhere, Dana White’s Contender Series alum Adrian
Yanez took home some extra income for a quick finish of
Victor
Rodriguez in a bantamweight showdown on the prelims. A head
kick 2:46 into the opening stanza put Rodriguez away and brought
Yanez his first Octagon triumph.
Finally, Miles Johns
garnered the evening’s final bonus as a result of his third-round
knockout of the debuting Kevin
Natividad in the card’s opening bout. After racking up a lead
on the scorecards through two rounds, Johns left no doubt when he
put his foe to sleep with an uppercut 2:51 into Round 3 of their
bantamweight encounter.