See who walked away with some additional change of their pocket following the awarding of the UFC 285 post-fight bonuses
With two historic championship bouts in the primary and co-main occasions, together with a number of spotlight performances, UFC 285 proved to be one for the historical past books — simply as a lot financially because it did action-wise.
An introduced complete of 19,471 offered out the T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas, which hosted the UFC pay-per-view card. This introduced in a complete gate of $12.15 million.
This gate, in accordance with TSN’s Aaron Bronsteter, is nice sufficient for the fourth-highest in UFC historical past — and the most important gate ever for a UFC heavyweight essential occasion.
Three fighters — Jon Jones, Alexa Grasso and Bo Nickal — have been awarded Efficiency of the Evening bonuses. In the meantime, the primary card bout between Geoff Neal and Shavkat Rakhmonov earned Struggle of the Evening honors for UFC 285.
Jon Jones, Alexa Grasso, Bo Nickal win UFC 285 efficiency bonuses; Geoff Neal vs. Shavkat Rakhmonov named Struggle of the Evening
In the primary occasion, Jones scored an approximate two-minute submission of Ciryl Gane to win the vacant UFC heavyweight championship. The struggle was Jones’s first in three years and his first at heavyweight.
Jones turned the eighth UFC fighter to win championships in two weight lessons — the third to do it at heavyweight and light-weight heavyweight, becoming a member of former archnemesis Daniel Cormier and Randy Couture.
Within the co-main occasion, Grasso scored an upset, fourth-round submission of Valentina Shevchenko to seize the UFC girls’s flyweight championship. Grasso turned the primary girl to submit Shevchenko and ended the flyweight title reign that started at UFC 231.
The highly-touted Nickal, a former three-time NCAA wrestling champion, made a profitable UFC debut in the primary card opener, scoring a first-round submission of Jamie Pickett.
Rakhmonov scored a final-minute end of Neal of their essential card bout, submitting him with a standing choke. UFC President Dana White stated Neal would nonetheless be paid his bonus regardless of lacking weight.
