UFC on FOX 20 Bonuses: Eddie Wineland and Felice Herrig Bank $50,000
UFC on FOX 20 was live from Chicago, Illinois Saturday night (July 23, 2016), and produced it’s fair share of both wild and technically sound fights.
A featherweight brawl between Jason Knight and Jim Alers took place on the UFC Fight Pass preliminary card, and rightfully so took home ‘Fight of the Night’ honors. Knight entered the contest prepared to put the pressure on his Puerto Rican counterpart, talking mad trash throughout the entertaining three round contest.
Knight’s aggressive striking style and lack of fear to take the Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt to the ground earned him the unanimous decision victory. Both men’s spectacular performances where awarded with $50,000 each.
On the FOX preliminary card former WEC bantamweight champion Eddie Wineland took on up-and-coming 135-pound contender Frankie Saenz. The two bantamweight studs put on quite the show of their own, but ultimately the veteran Wineland would finish Saenz with a barrage of punches in the beginning of the third round. Both men were also given $50,000 for their ‘Fight of the Night’ efforts.
Finally coming off over a year-long layoff from the sport since losing to Paige VanZant in April of last year, Felice Herrig opened up the main card in Chicago with a rear-naked choke victory in the first round of her contest against Kailin Curran, to make quick work of the UFC veteran. Herrig was given $50,000 for her ‘Performance of the Night’ award.
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