Kavanagh and Volkanovski Take UFC 333 Performance Bonuses

Lone'er Kavanagh and Alexander Volkanovski were named Performance of the Night winners at UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi, and Petr Yan and Merab Dvalishvili shared Fight of the Night.

Kavanagh earned his bonus with a first-round TKO of Ramazan Temirov in the flyweight bout. The finish came at 4:28, when referee Mike Beltran stepped in to stop it. Volkanovski took the other award for his second-round TKO of Movsar Evloev in the main event, which he won at 4:54 to keep the featherweight title.

Fight of the Night

The bantamweight title fight between Yan and Dvalishvili went the full five rounds. Yan won it by unanimous decision, with all three judges scoring it 48-47.

Every fighter who won by a finish without receiving a bonus got an extra $25,000.

The rest of the finishes

Five of the first six fights on the card went the distance, so the finishes began with the mid-level prelims. Abus Magomedov submitted Cam Rowston with a guillotine choke at 1:44 of the first round, a middleweight bout. Four of the next five fights ended early.

• Kody Steele knocked out Noah Gugnon with punches in the first round, at 3:54.
• Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev knocked out Nikita Krylov with a knee at 2:38 of round one.
• Dominick Reyes beat Azamat Murzakanov by head kick and punches at 2:40 of the first round.
• Aaron Pico stopped Losene Keita with punches at 1:14 of round one.

The remaining fights went to the scorecards. Alexander Volkov beat Rizvan Kuniev by unanimous decision, Grant Dawson beat Nurullo Aliev, Abubakar Vagaev beat Jacob Malkoun, Daniel Santos beat Bolaji Oki, and Iasmin Lucindo beat Nicolle Caliari at a catchweight of 120.5 pounds. Colby Thicknesse beat Asaf Chopurov by split decision.

Source: Yahoo Sports