UFC Fight Island 5 Bonuses: Cory Sandhagen, Joaquin Buckley Earn $50,000
Joaquin Buckley and Cory Sandhagen earned highlight-reel knockouts and a little extra spending cash at UFC Fight Island 5.
The promotion forwent any Fight of the Night bonuses and instead handed four fighters $50,000 each for Performance of the Night. UFC announced the four performance bonuses Saturday night on Twitter.
Tonight’s POTNs go down in history!
–: Tom Breese
–: @ChrisDaukausMMA
–: @NewMansa94
–: @Cors_Life pic.twitter.com/JAcxrnQOmQ— UFC (@ufc) October 11, 2020
Sandhagen earned a second-round spinning heel kick knockout of Marlon Moraes in the card’s main event; meanwhile, Buckley earned one of the greatest finishes in UFC history with a jumping spinning back kick KO of Impa Kasanganay. The other two recipients were Chris Daukus, who made short work of Rodrigo Nascimento, and Tom Breese, who dispatched KB Bhullar in less than two minutes.
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