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UFC Singapore Bonuses: St. Preux’s Comeback Submission Earns Him $50,000

UFC Fight Night 132 emanated this morning (Saturday, June 23, 2018) from Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. The slate was main-evented by a welterweight clash between veteran action fighter Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and up-and-comer Leon Edwards. Their fight was contested at a simmer for much of the full 25 minutes, with the Brit controlling […]

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UFC Fight Night 132 emanated this morning (Saturday, June 23, 2018) from Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. The slate was main-evented by a welterweight clash between veteran action fighter Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and up-and-comer Leon Edwards. Their fight was contested at a simmer for much of the full 25 minutes, with the Brit controlling most of the action with his power and distance management. Though Edwards earned a unanimous decision in the biggest win of his career, he would not take home any bonus money.

Fighting in the co-main event, Ovince St. Preux did with a Performance of the Night. His short but back-and-forth battle with Tyson Pedro ended in under four minutes. Pedro hit OSP with a head kick and then dropped him to the base of the fence with a right hand. The Tennessean popped up and reversed a takedown attempt to end up in top position. Soon after, he had a kimura grip on Pedro’s arm and transitioned to the straight armlock. OSP’s strength was on full display, as he elicited the tap a moment later, earning an extra $50,000 in the process.

On the undercard, 20-year-old Chinese prospect Song Yadong moved his record to 2-0 in the UFC by taking out Felipe Arantes in the second round. Yadong was able to counter failed takedowns by the Brazilian, get on top, and beat him up. Late in the second frame, with Arantes’ back to the cage, Yadong unleashed a vicious elbow over the top that put down the BJJ brown belt. Coffin-nail punches brought an end to it with one second left in the round. “The Terminator” will pocket an extra $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus for his efforts.

Also in preliminary action, the Fight of the Night went to featherweight strikers Rolando Dy and Shane Young. The two traded heavy leather on the feet for the duration of the fight. Young hurt the Filipino with a vicious elbow strike late in the second round. Rocked and compromised, Dy covered up against the cage, where “Sugar” Shane swarmed. Dy fell to his knees, forcing the referee to jump in on his behalf, but both men will leave Singapore $50,000 richer for their entertaining scrap.

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Twitter Reacts To UFC Singapore

UFC Fight Night 132 went down this morning (Saturday, June 23, 2018) from Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. The event was headlined by a welterweight scrap between fan-favorite Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and rising contender Leon Edwards. The co-feature saw heavy-handed light heavyweights Ovince St. Preux and Tyson Pedro exchange heavy leather. See how Twitter […]

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UFC Fight Night 132 went down this morning (Saturday, June 23, 2018) from Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. The event was headlined by a welterweight scrap between fan-favorite Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and rising contender Leon Edwards.

The co-feature saw heavy-handed light heavyweights Ovince St. Preux and Tyson Pedro exchange heavy leather.

See how Twitter reacted to these two action-packed bouts below:

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UFC 217 Bonuses: Three New Champions Pocket Extra $50,000

UFC 217 popped off tonight (Saturday, November 4, 2017) from Madison Square Garden in New York, NY, headlined by a trio of title clashes. The three challengers all dethroned the champions in epic and stunning fashion, and so the three of them took home Performance of the Night honors. Rose Namajunas unseated formerly dominant strawweight […]

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UFC 217 popped off tonight (Saturday, November 4, 2017) from Madison Square Garden in New York, NY, headlined by a trio of title clashes. The three challengers all dethroned the champions in epic and stunning fashion, and so the three of them took home Performance of the Night honors.

Rose Namajunas unseated formerly dominant strawweight queen Joanna Jedrzejczyk in stunning and brutal fashion, dropping her twice and finishing her in the first round. The second knockdown was a lunging left hook that folded the champion, buckling her legs completely. “Thug” Rose came through as the biggest underdog on the card in sensational fashion and took home an extra $50,000 for her efforts (as well as a shiny new belt).

In the co-headliner, TJ Dillashaw also sprang an upset via knockout. In the long-awaited grudge match with former Team Alpha Male teammate and champion Cody Garbrandt, the former bantamweight ruler got it done with a head kick and a massive left hook. Dillashaw had to survive a harrowing end to round one, when he himself was dropped and nearly finished. He was saved by the bell and staggered back to his corner, but he made Garbrandt pay for failing to finish the job. Dillashaw got his belt back and will enjoy an extra $50,000 in his bank account come Monday.

In the main event, a historic third title changed hands as Georges St. Pierre returned from a four-year retirement and looked like he never left. He outstruck and out-wrestled champion Michael Bisping for most of the fight, particularly in the first and third rounds. “Rush” closed the show in the third by dropping Bisping with a left on the chin. He followed the Brit to the mat, forced him to turtle from the ground and pound onslaught that followed, took the back, and sunk in the fight-ending rear-naked choke. Bisping elected to go unconscious rather than tap. With that, GSP became the fourth man in history to hold UFC belts in two different weight classes.

No Fight of the Night bonus was handed out. Instead, the last Performance of the Night bonus was split between undercard finishers Ovince St. Preux and Ricardo Ramos, who both took home an extra $25,000.

Ramos obliterated Aiemann Zahabi – brother of TriStar gym head coach Firas – with a spinning back elbow in the second round of their bantamweight fight to open the card. St. Preux came back to dust fellow ranked light heavyweight Corey Anderson with a flush third-round head kick after being outwrestled for most of the first ten minutes. Both Zahabi and Anderson were unconscious before they hit the deck, follow-up shots unnecessary.

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UFC Fight Night 117 Bonuses: Main Card Stars Bank Cash

UFC Fight Night 117 emanated tonight (Friday, September 22, 2017) from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The main event saw a weird, late-notice pairing between 205-pound Ovince St. Preux and former middleweight title challenger but recent welterweight Yushin Okami. OSP would garner himself one of the two $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus […]

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UFC Fight Night 117 emanated tonight (Friday, September 22, 2017) from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The main event saw a weird, late-notice pairing between 205-pound Ovince St. Preux and former middleweight title challenger but recent welterweight Yushin Okami.

OSP would garner himself one of the two $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus checks for somehow hitting his signature move, the Von Flue shoulder choke, on the experienced Okami in the first round. OSP now has two more Von Flue chokes than Jason Von Flue, perhaps solidifying it as the “Von Preux choke” from now on.

The other $50k Performance of the Night bonus went to Gokhan Saki, whose highly anticipated debut delivered the violence and highlight-reel finish blood-thirsty fight fans sought. His victim, Henrique “Frankenstein” da Silva, lived up to his nickname, eating insane amounts of punishment and refusing to go away. The Brazilian finally seemed to be turning the momentum in his favor with a flurry of knees, elbows, and punches on the fence when a counter left hook ended it in a flash.

The Fight of the Night and its matching $50,000 bonus checks went to the strawweights in the bloody co-main event clash. Claudia Gadelha and Jessica Andrade tore into each other for three rounds, with Andrade gradually taking over in a more and more one-sided affair. Brutal power hooks on the fence, jaw-dropping slam takedowns, and merciless ground and pound highlighted Andrade’s upset and statement-making victory over a fellow former title challenger.

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Betting Odds For UFC Fight Night 117: Top Name Favored Big

UFC Fight Night 117 is here, and it goes down tonight (Friday, September 22, 2017) from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The event will be the fifth that the promotion has hosted in Saitama, and first since UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs. Nelson in September 2015. The preliminary card will air on FXX […]

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UFC Fight Night 117 is here, and it goes down tonight (Friday, September 22, 2017) from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The event will be the fifth that the promotion has hosted in Saitama, and first since UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs. Nelson in September 2015. The preliminary card will air on FXX at 8 p.m. ET. The six bout main card airs on FXX at 10 p.m. ET.

A light heavyweight bout between Yushin Okami and Ovince Saint Preux will headline this event. Claudia Gadelha vs. Jessica Andrade in a women’s strawweight bout will serve as the co-main event. Rounding out the main card is Takanori Gomi vs. Dong Hyun Kim in a lightweight bout, Gokhan Saki vs. Henrique da Silva in a light heavyweight bout, Teruto Ishihara vs. Rolando Dy in a featherweight bout, and  Charles Rosa vs. Mizuto Hirota in a featherweight bout.

According to oddsmakers, St. Preux is a -550 favorite over Okami, who is a +425 underdog. Other odds for the main card include Takanori Gomi being a +300 underdog against Hyun Kim, who is a -360 favorite. Here are the full betting odds:

MAIN CARD (FXX/10 p.m. ET)

Ovince St. Preux (-550) vs. Yushin Okami (+425)

Dong Hyun Kim (-360) vs. Takanori Gomi (+300)

Claudia Gadelha (-270) vs. Jessica Andrade (+230)

Gokhan Saki (-165) vs. Henrique da Silva (+145)

Teruto Ishihara (-145) vs. Rolando Dy (+125)

Jussier Formiga (-450) vs. Yuta Sasaki (+360)

PRELIMINARY CARD (FXX/8 p.m. ET)

Alex Morono (-130) vs. Keita Nakamura (+110)

Chan Mi Jeon (-120) vs. Syuri Kondo (EVEN)

Luke Jumeau (-245) vs. Shinsho Anzai (+205)

Hyun Gyu Lim (-125) vs. Daichi Abe (+105)

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Ovince St. Preux vs. Marcos Rogerio De Lima Full Fight Video Highlights

Barely a year removed from his interim title shot against legendary former champ Jon Jones, Ovince St. Preux had his back against the wall following three straight losses heading into his bout with Marcos Rogerio de Lima at last night’s UFC Fight Night 108 from his adopted home state of Tennessee. The pressure was compounded by

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Barely a year removed from his interim title shot against legendary former champ Jon Jones, Ovince St. Preux had his back against the wall following three straight losses heading into his bout with Marcos Rogerio de Lima at last night’s UFC Fight Night 108 from his adopted home state of Tennessee.

The pressure was compounded by the fact that de Lima missed weight by a whopping four pounds, raising questions as to if he actually had trouble making weight or just wanted to have the biggest size advantage possible for the bout.

In the end it didn’t matter, however, because after some heavy body kicks from his foe in the first round, St. Preux settled into a groove in the second frame to batter and bloody a grounded de Lima. The Brazilian slugger then chose to hold on to a headlock from bottom half guard, a decision we’ve seen one of St. Preux’s adversaries pay for dear in a previous bout. Not surprisingly, the hometown favorite locked on his patented Von Flue choke to get the win and some loud chants of “OSP” to go with it.

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