Following last night’s UFC Fight Night 247 event in Las Vegas the recipients of the evening’s $50,000 bonus awards were announced.
Four ‘Performance Of The Night’ awards were dished out on this occasion and they included main event winner Carlos Prates, who was able to dismantle Neil Magny within the space of a round.
Prates looked comfortable from the start, but he really started to assert his striking dominance when he rocked Magny with a short elbow. From that point on Magny was on the back foot as Prates stalked him around the Octagon, and then in the closing stages of the round caught him on the temple with a punch that knocked the veteran out. Prates has now marked himself out as a rising star, having finished all four of his UFC fights by KO so far.
Mansur Abdul-Malik dominated Dusko Todorovic in their main card fight, putting him down early in the fight, and then half-way through the round he sent him crashing down again after punching his way into range and then landing a flush knee. Todorovic somehow remained conscious, but the thumping ground-and-pound that followed led the referee to step in, leading to a TKO victory for the debuting Abdul-Malik.
Charlie Radtke lit up Matthew Semelsberger in the opening minute of their prelim fight, initially hurting him with a left hook, then buckled his legs again with a right before a couple of straight punches down the pipe sent him falling forward onto his hands and knees for a 51 second TKO finish.
Da’Mon Blackshear earned the other performance bonus on the night after he hurt Cody Stamann with a knee to the head, attempted to finish him with a guillotine choke and then switched to a rear-naked choke to secure a submission victory at 4.19mins of the opening round.
