MINNEAPOLIS – If Francis Ngannou didn’t get a bonus for his UFC on ESPN 3 performance, then the system must have gotten broken somewhere along the way.
But Ngannou (14-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) did, in fact, earn a performance of the night award after needing just 1:11 to finish former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos (21-5 MMA, 15-4 UFC) in the evening’s main event.
Ngannou earned an extra $50,000 for his efforts. As did Joseph Benavidez, Alonzo Menifield, and Eryk Anders, during an evening in which the company went with four performance bonuses and skipped Fight of the Night.
Benavidez (28-5 MMA, 15-3 UFC), for his part, put on an impressive show in finishing Jussier Formiga (24-5 MMA, 10-4 UFC) for the second time, which seems to earn him the inside track on a fight with bantamweight/flyweight champ-champ Henry Cejudo.
The up-and-coming Menifield (9-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC) put the light heavyweight division on notice with an impressive finish of Paul Craig (11-4 MMA, 3-4 UFC).
And Anders (12-4 MMA, 4-4 UFC) got back into the win column in a big way with a ferocious finish of Vinicius Moreira (9-3 MMA, 0-3 UFC).
UFC on ESPN 3 took Saturday at Target Center in Minneapolis. The card aired on ESPN.
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