The standard four bonuses were handed out after UFC Vancouver, and it was no surprise that the main event was not included.
A lackluster four-round affair between Reinier de Ridder and Brendan Allen ended in a stoppage, especially when former ONE Championship doubles champion RDR was unable to advance before round five. That TKO didn’t do much for the fans’ mood after a tough struggle that, after the opening frame, seemed to show more delay than submission attempts or improving position.
The biggest winner of the night might have been Nassourdine Imavov, who is now one step closer to a title shot against middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev.
Bonus winners, however, included Kyle Prepolec, who is still winless in the UFC but is still locked in a war with Drew Dober. After a low blow halted the action in the third, Dober took advantage and stormed back into the fight, scoring a TKO shortly after the action resumed. After a point was deducted, Dober might have gotten to that point.
That confrontation earned Fight of the Night, with Prepolec’s compatriot Charles Jourdain earning a Performance of the Night bonus for his submission of English bantamweight Davey Grant. Jourdain finished Grant with a guillotine after the fight was promoted to the main card at the end of the week.
The final $50,000 US post-fight bonus went to Aoriqileng, for a quick and violent knockout of Cody Gibson during the preliminaries.
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