UFC 116 Bonuses: $75k each

Gerald Harris, Brock Lesnar, Stephan Bonnar, Krzysztof Soszynski, Chris Leben and Yoshihiro Akiyama each earned $75,000 fight-night bonuses for their performances at Saturday's UFC 116 event.

Harris earned the "Knockout of the Night" award, Lesnar earned the "Submission of the Night" bonus, and Bonnar, Soszynski, Leben, Akiyama all earned "Fight of the Night" honors.

Its bullshit that Lytle doesn't get SON. He needs the money way more than Brock

Not only that, he actually had the best Sub of the night, not that Brock's wasn't impressive.

Andrew the Raider King wrote:

Not only that, he actually had the best Sub of the night, not that Brock's wasn't impressive.

Brock's was more impressive because of how Rogan said Carwin was safe because of his arm, and then Brock tapped him 3 seconds later.

Nah Lytle was impressive too for real.

Lytle pulled off one of the coolest subs I've seen this year. Totally screwed tonight.

MMAjunkie has an article up:


"What I expect of these guys is I expect these guys to go out and perform," White said. "Let me tell you this, and I mean it, we're writing some [expletive] checks tonight. We're writing checks – more than what you heard here tonight. Guys are going to get well taken care of tonight. Sounds like Lytle and everyone else is going to get money just not the title of sub of the night.

http://mmajunkie.com/news/19806/after-action-packed-ufc-116-fight-card-more-bonus-checks-on-the-way.mma

The difference is Lytle is a seasoned veteran known to pull some slick subs out of his hat at times. I didn't see anyone at all predicting Brock to win the fight by Sub. We just had this discussion about Fight of the Year candidates. How Werdum's Sub over Fedor has an edge simply because of the high level of both fighters. This is almost in the same concept as far as the "star power" factor. Brock Lesnar subbed undefeated Shane Carwin, Chris Lytle subbed a guy he already subbed three years ago.

I actually liked Lebens sub the best last night.