Bisping left with the title and a full pocket. Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC
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After winning the UFC middleweight belt with a knockout over Luke Rockhold at UFC 199, Michael Bisping He said he was having “the best day of his life”. And the statement gained yet another reason to be true. The “icing on the cake” came in the announcement of the event’s bonuses, which featured Bisping as one of the winners.
For the biggest victory of his career, the “Conde” received a check for US$ 50 thousand (approximately R$ 176 thousand, at the current exchange rate). In addition to the new champion, the other winner of the night was a veteran of the sport, Dan Henderson, which dispatched Hector Lombard with a devastating knockout, in what could have been the last fight of his long career in the sport.
In addition to Bisping and Henderson, two other fighters also took home a check for US$50 each: Mexican Polo Reyes and South Korean Dong Hyun Kim, who faced each other in the fight that opened the night's preliminary card. . The battle between Reyes and Kim was voted “Fight of the Night”.
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