UFC 194 Fighter Bonuses: No Surprise Here, Conor McGregor Leads the Way
UFC 194: Aldo vs. McGregor broke all kinds of records on Saturday night in Las Vegas, and is poised to break even more when all the pay-per-view tallying is said and done. But for all the records broken and those still to fall, none of it would have happened without the fighters.
It particularly wouldn't have happened without the enigma that is Conor McGregor, who not only unified the belts at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, he also led the charge on the UFC's post-fight bonuses.
That will happen when you knock out a champion that hadn't lost a fight in more than a decade. Especially when you knock that champion out 13 seconds into the fight, which is what McGregor did to Jose Aldo, unifying his interim belt with Aldo's featherweight championship.
The Performance of the Night award pocketed McGregor an additional $50,000 bonus, which is likely pocket change for him.
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The other Performance of the Night bonus went to Leo Santos, who knocked out Kevin Lee in the first round of their fight, and then bolted from the Octagon.
Fight of the Night honors went to the middleweight championship co-main event bout between Chris Weidman and Luke Rockhold. The fight went into the fourth round, but after battling back and forth early on, Rockhold's athleticism and more dynamic game took over. He finished Weidman via TKO stoppage in the fourth round, but each of them goes home with a $50,000 bonus.
