Ryan Jimmo, Matthew Riddle, Bryan Caraway and Mitch Gagnon each earned $65,000 bonuses for their performances at Saturday's "UFC 149: Faber vs. Barao" pay-per-view event.
Jimmo earned the "Knockout of the Night" award, Riddle won the "Submission of the Night" bonus and Caraway and Gagnon took home "Fight of the Night."
Jimmo's "Knockout of the Night" bonus may have been one of the easier decisions in UFC bonus history. Jimmo, making his long-awaited UFC debut, tied the official UFC record with a seven-second knockout of Anthony Perosh. �A right hand right behind Perosh's ear had him out instantly, and a follow-up shot on the ground only came because referee Josh Rosenthal couldn't get there sooner.
Riddle and Clements went back and forth in their fight to open the pay-per-view's main card. Riddle controlled things on the ground, but in the standup game it was more of a slugfest at times. And in that slugfest, when Clements threw a third-round spinning back elbow, Riddle caught it and turned it into a picture-perfect standing arm-triangle choke. After taking the choke to the canvas with a trip takedown, Riddle soon was able to make Clements tap.
Caraway's rear-naked choke finish of home favorite Mitch Gagnon came in the third round. But he had to survive a tough first round from Gagnon just to get there. After Caraway took dozens of punches from Gagnon in the first, he was the fresher fighter in the second and third. And after securing a takedown along the fence in the last frame, Caraway quickly took Gagnon's back and worked until he was able to sink in the fight-ending choke. But it was their back-and-forth early in the fight that earned them "Fight of the Night."
UFC 149 took place July 21 at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary.
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