The Ultimate Fighting Championship awarded four fighters performance bonuses on the UFC 281 pay-per-view card.
Alex Pereira received an extra $50,000 for the impressive middleweight championship win. Pereira's historic performance saw the Brazilian defeat Israel Adesanya in the fifth round with a series of punches. Additionally, Weili Zhang received the same monetary bonus for her submission win over Carla Esparza to regain the UFC strawweight championship.
In no surprise, fight of the night went to Dustin Poirier and Michael Chandler. The two lightweights delivered an instant classic with a back-and-forth brawl that eventually was claimed by Poirier as the former UFC lightweight interim champion locked in a rear-naked choke that forced Chandler to tap.