UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs Holland concluded with 13 total fights resulting in 13 winners. Some of them were lucky enough to walk away with more than just their fight purses. Most notably, strawweight Mackenzie Dern, and middleweight Julian Marquez, were on the list for their respective efforts. They both earned an extra 50k along with two others.
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Mackenzie Dern won the Performance Of the Night bonus for her sensational first-round submission win over Nina Nunes. The strawweight contender has put herself in an excellent position in the 115lbs division with her win over the fifth-ranked fighter.
Julian Marquez and Sam Alvey won the Fight Of the Night bonus for their slugfest in the middleweight division. ‘The Cuban Missile Crisis’ eventually got a submission win after hurting Alvey on the feet.
Mateusz Gamrot also won the Performance of The Night bonus as he earned a second-round finish over Scott Holtzman in their clash at the lightweight division.
Where does a win over Nina Nunes take Mackenzie Dern?
Since joining the UFC in 2018, Dern has picked up six wins in the promotion to go with one defeat. Her loss against Amanda Ribas is the only setback of her professional career following which the submission wizard has gone on a four-fight winning streak.
On the back of her stellar run, she should get an opponent from the top five. This means the UFC may book her against the likes of Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Carla Esparza, or Yan Xiaonan. What’s sure, though, is that she will see her a massive leap from the current slot as the #11 ranked strawweight.
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