Alexandre Pantoja, UFC 310 ceremonial weigh-in Credit score: Gabriel Gonzalez/Cageside Press
The ultimate Pay-Per-View card of 2024 for the UFC is within the books, with some large finishes transpiring on the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas on Saturday.
These large finishes led to 4 Efficiency of the Evening bonuses being awarded, in lieu of a Combat of the Evening. Among the many profitable fighters cashing in, flyweight champ Alexandre Pantoja, who proved that a right away title shot for RIZIN star Kai Asakura was too large of an ask.
A uncommon scenario within the fashionable period (Gilbert Melendez and Joe Soto obtained rapid photographs at gold in 2013 and 2014, respectively, although the latter was an damage alternative), Asakura was the most recent fighter to attempt to fail for a UFC championship in his promotional debut. After an enormous bounce knee try within the opening seconds of the UFC 310 important occasion, Asakura didn’t make a lot of an influence, with reigning champ Pantoja out-striking him within the opening spherical. Within the second, “The Cannibal” took the combat to the mat, obtained a physique lock in place, and choked the Japanese challenger unconscious.
That was sufficient to earn Pantoja an additional $50,000 by the use of a Efficiency of the Evening bonus. It was additionally the second technical submission to money out, with Vicente Luque choking out Themba Gorimbo earlier within the evening for one more Efficiency bonus.
The remaining two Efficiency of the Evening bonuses at UFC 310 went to Kennedy Nzechukwu, who put away Lukasz Brzeski for his second victory at heavyweight, and Chase Hooper. Hooper was one other fighter whose submission expertise shined vivid within the desert on Saturday, as he put away veteran Clay Guida with an arm-bar.
