The Octagon returned to Abu Dhabi for today’s UFC 321 event, with four fighters ultimately taking home performance bonuses.
The pay-per-view fight card was headlined by a heavyweight title fight pitting Tom Aspinall against Ciryl Gane. The highly anticipated match ended in disaster after ‘Bon Gamin’ accidentally hit the Brit with a double eye punch, leaving the champion unable to continue (see that here).
UFC 321 was headlined by a women’s strawweight title fight between Mackenzie Dern and Virna Jandiroba. The fight resulted in a fiercely contested back-and-forth affair, with Dern ultimately emerging victorious by unanimous decision (48-47 x2, 49-46) to claim the promotion’s vacant 115-pound title.
Following today’s conclusion eventUFC officials announced at the post-fight press conference that four fighters would take home performance bonuses.
Fight of the Night: Lightweight fighters L’udovit Klein and Mateusz Rebecki earned $50,000 each for their exciting war on today’s UFC 321 preliminary fight card. Klein ultimately won the match by majority decision (29-28, 28-27 and 28-28).
Performance of the evening: Valter Walker earned an additional $50,000 for his first-round submission of Louie Sutherland. The promising heavyweight used a heel hook to earn the tapout.
FOUR HEEL HOOK SETTINGS IN A ROW?!?!
Valter Walker continues his streak of heel hook entries on #UFC321 pic.twitter.com/3H0KdLTADx
— UFC (@ufc) October 25, 2025
Performance of the evening: Quillan Salkilld earned an additional $50,000 for his first-round knockout win over Nasrat Haqparast in today’s preliminary round. Salkilld ended the fight with a brutal head kick.
Quillan Salkilld
WHAT I AM #UFC321 pic.twitter.com/c9Z19WDFml
— Spinnin Backfist (@SpinninBackfist) October 25, 2025
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