Johnny
Walker’s spectacular UFC Vegas 124 main event win got even
better after being awarded a $100,000 performance bonus.
Walker earned “Fight of the Night” honors for his heavyweight scrap
against Waldo
Cortes-Acosta, who also took home $100K. The back-and-forth
fight saw Walker show off his chin as he survived some hard punches
from “Salsa Boy.” Ultimately, a
head kick and a back fist proved too much for Cortes-Acosta,
who wilted under Walker’s onslaught (24-10, 1 NC) in the third
round.
An explosive knockout from Elijah
Smith earned the exciting bantamweight prospect a performance
of the night bonus. “Swift” needed just one minute to blitz through
Davey
Grant, who succumbed to
a brutal left hook. The huge KO moves the 24-year-old’s
professional mixed martial arts record to 11-1.
Finally, Thomas
Petersen’s impressive
third-round comeback against Gabriel
Lourenco earned the heavyweight $100,000. The finish came with
just 13 seconds left in the final frame, as Petersen showed off
impressive ground-and-pound. “The Train” is now 12-5 as a pro and
evens his UFC record at 4-4.