UFC 134 Wrap-Up: Nogueira, Barboza and Pearson take home 100k
Posted on August 27, 2011, 10:55 PM by Joey Santosus
UFC 134 promised and delivered an action packed night of fights tonight from the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Reigning Middleweight Champion Anderson "The Spider" Silva made his 9th successful title defense in the headlining bout, scoring a vicious second-round TKO victory over Yushin Okami. In the co-main event, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua evened the score with Forrest Griffin, defeating the TUF 1 winner via knockout in the opening round, while Edson Barboza outpointed Ross Pearson to take a split decision. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira returned to action, picking up his own first-round knockout win over Brendan Schaub and Stanislav Nedkov TKO'ed Luiz Cane in his octagon debut.
The UFC awarded extra generous $100,000 bonuses to the night's top performers, who were announced by Dana White immediately following the event.
UFC 134: Silva vs. Okami Bonuses
Fight of the Night: Edson Barboza vs. Ross Pearson
Submission of the Night: N/A
Knockout of the Night: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Full Results (via FightoftheNight.com):
Main Card
Anderson Silva defeats Yushin Okami by TKO at 2.04mins of Rd2
Mauricio Rua defeats Forrest Griffin by KO at 1.53mins of Rd1
Edson Barboza defeats Ross Pearson by split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira defeats Brendan Schaub by KO at 3.09mins of Rd1
Stanislav Nedkov defeats Luiz Cane by TKO at 4.13mins of Rd1
Prelims:
Thiago Tavares defeats Spencer Fisher by TKO at 2.51mins of Rd2
Rousimar Palhares defeats Dan Miller by unanimous decision (29-27, 30-27, 30-25)
Paulo Thiago defeats David Mitchell by unanimous decision (30-27 x3)
Raphael Assuncao defeats Jonny Eduardo by unanimous decision (30-27 x3)
Erick Silva defeats Luis Ramos by TKO at 0.40mins of Rd1
Yuri Alcantara defeats Felipe Arantes by unanimous decision (30-27 x2, 29-28)
Yves Jabouin defeats Ian Loveland by split decision (30-27, 28-29 x2)
Photo: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira before his fight with Heath Herring during UFC 73 at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, CA on July 7, 2007. Credit: Francis Specker
Comments
bet someone wish they would have submitted someone huh. Kinda ironic not 1 brazilian submitted anyone >.
Bullshit FOTH, it should of went to Hares vs Miller, and since there was no SOTN their should of been an extra bonus KOTN maybe to Erik Silva
yea or at least give miller n him a oddest fight of the night bonus or something
Palhares vs Miller was indeed fight of the night!
so with you on that one. Erick Silva knocked the f out of that guy. And The Palhares vs Miller fight had me on my FEET!
I think UFC should have just given out 3 KO of the night bonuses Nog Shogun n Silva
I agree with the FOTN only because I think Palhares vs. Miller was very one sided which takes away from the suspense a bit and also their fight's 3rd round was very slow and mainly consisted of 1 slow punch for 1 slow punch.
Barboza Pearson was super fast pace from start to finish, was a split decision which shows how close it was and was a pretty back and forth fight with a lot of nice stand up action and techniques shown. Both fighters were also comign forward for the full 15 minutes.
Tricky FOTN to Call but I think they got it right.
The KOTN was the most controversional of the awards in my opinion and I feel Dana should of given out 2 since there was no submissions tonight.
Shogun had a more brutal TKO and against a higher caliber opponent but I think Nog got it just for the situation; being arguably the most popular fighter on the card, most legendary fighter on the card, coming back from almost a 2 year lay-off and smashing a much younger and more athletic opponent, scoring a big win getting him back in the mix, being the underdog and just because he did what everyone expected to happen to him.
Shogun could have just as easily got the KOTN but I have no arguement with Nog getting it.
These judges are ridiculous. I'm not going to say "he should have won, or he didn't deserve to win etc." but look at some of the score differences between individual judges for a single fight, it's crazy they need to get on the same page.
no one is mentioning the beating Nedkov was taking until he TKOd Cane. to me that was a shocker and just came out of no where