It was a card wildly derided by fans, much to the annoyance of UFC President and CEO Dana White this week. Still, UFC Vegas 110 produced a few memorable scraps, even if they weren’t always for the right reasons.
One of four Performance of the Night bonus-winners fell in that category. Ante Delija seemed to have Waldo Cortes-Acosta finished in the night’s heavyweight co-main event, lighting him up alongside the fence. However as replay showed and the ref caught real time, Cortes-Acosta had been poked in the eye right at the start of the deluge.
Despite Delija thinking he had won, Cortes-Acosta was given recovery time, opted to continue, and immediately knocked Delija out.
In the main event, headliner Steve Garcia took another Performance of the Night bonus for his TKO finish of David Onama. The featherweight fight was much-maligned as lacking the appropriate main event star power, and Onama’s name was on the marquee for the first time in his UFC tenue. The end came at 3:34 of round one.
Newcomer Donte Johnson, for a guillotine choke submission of Sedrique Dumas at middleweight, and flyweight Allan Nascimento, who put away Cody Durden with an Anaconda choke to open the UFC Vegas 110 main card, picked up the remaining bonuses.
No Fight of the Night was handed out Saturday; all four bonus winners take in $50,000 U.S. for their efforts.
