On a UFC Kansas City card full of exciting fights and with finishes a plenty, one welterweight scrap stood head and shoulders above the competition.
As entertaining as Ian Machado Garry vs. Carlos Prates was, it was another 170lb affair that took home Fight of the Night at the Kansas City event. That was Randy Brown vs. Nicolas Dalby, a scrappy affair to say the least, and one that saw Brown, swinging wild, land a knockout blow in the second round.
To be more accurate, both men were swinging wild by that point. Despite already being hurt, Dalby did his best to fire back. The finishing sequence was, quite frankly, the closest thing to a real life iteration of Rock ’em, Sock ’em robots you’re about to find.
The slugfest takes home $50,000 per fighter for securing the bonus, and joins two Performance of the Night bonuses handed out on Saturday. Those went to newcomer Malcolm Wellmaker, and Chinese light heavyweight Zhang Mingyang.
Wellmaker, an undefeated 8-0 coming in, improved on that record by knocking out Cameron Saaiman with a picture-perfect right hook. Saaiman had once upon a time been a hot prospect coming in off the Contender Series, but has struggled more recently.
As for Mingyang, he sent Anthony “Lionheart” Smith into retirement care of a TKO finish, smashing the former title challenger with elbows inside of a round in the UFC Kansas City co-main event.
