Make It Rain! Six Fighters Get Bonuses After UFC Vegas 31

It’s no $75,000 bonus, but the UFC did throw a little something extra at the fighters competing on this weekend’s UFC APEX card.

UFC events back at the APEX are always a little flat after a big sold out crowd show, and UFC Vegas 31 was no different after the insanity that was UFC 264. But that didn’t stop the fighters on the card from delivering big, and in turn UFC brass decided to award the fighters with extra performance of the night bonuses. Normally there’s a Fight of the Night and two Performance of the Night bonuses worth $50,000 each.

This time for UFC Vegas 31, the UFC dished out four Performance of the Night bonuses instead of two.

Your fight of the night? Gabriel Benitez vs. Billy Quarantillo, which saw Quarantillo dismantle a very stubborn Benitez who never stopped trying to win.

As for the Performances of the Night money, it went to Miesha Tate, Rodolfo Vieira, Rodrigo Nascimento, and Mateusz Gamrot.

While Tate’s finish of Marion Reneau wasn’t the flashiest, it sure was rock solid after five years away from competition. Rodolfo Vieira re-affirmed how dangerous he is as a submission specialist by putting Dustin Stoltzfus to sleep with a rear naked choke. Rodrigo Nascimento opened the prelims up with a come from behind knockout of Alan Baudot. And Mateusz Gamrot went through Jeremy Stephens like a hot knife through butter, taking him down and submitting him with a kimura (remember those?) in just over a minute.

Each fighter pockets $50,000 for their hard work in the cage.