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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Four fighters earned $60,000 "Fight Night" bonuses for their performances at UFC 125: Resolution in Las Vegas on Saturday night. UFC officials revealed at the post fight press conference that Clay Guida, Jeremy Stephens, Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard each earned the bonuses.
Guida took the night's "Submission of the Night" for his second round guillotine choke over Takanori Gomi. He had Gomi out of his game the entire fight with a highly energetic style of movement, and used that to set up a takedown in the second, where he moved into position and locked on the choke before rolling to cinch it.
Stephens' come-from-behind knockout of Marcus Davis earned him the "Knockout of the Night." Davis controlled the fight through the first two rounds, and even the first couple of minutes of the third. But Stephens still had his right hand, and he landed it in the third in vicious fashion, putting Davis out cold and following up with an added shot before referee Kim Winslow could get to him.
The "Fight of the Night" was an easy call, as it went to the main event between Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard. In one of the single greatest fights in UFC history, Edgar rebounded from a first round beating at the hands of Maynard to win three of the four next rounds on two judges' scorecards. The resulting draw is setting up a third bout between the two to settle the score.
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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