{"id":568285,"date":"2026-03-29T08:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568285\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:47:10","slug":"violent-finish-easy-choice-for-performance-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568285\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent finish easy choice for ‘Performance of the Night’"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\nAlexa Grasso made a statement against Alexa Grasso. |
\nGetty\/UFC<\/p>\n

Alexa
\nGrasso<\/a> authored one of the most memorable finishes in recent
\nmemory in the
\nUFC Seattle<\/a> co-main event.<\/p>\n

The former flyweight queen dropped Maycee
\nBarber<\/a>, then applied a rear-naked choke to her already
\nunconscious foe, earning an emphatic stoppage victory at the 2:42
\nmark of Round 1 on Saturday at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. As
\na result, Grasso was the recipient of a $100,000 \u201cPerformance of
\nthe Night\u201d bonus.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Joe Pyfer<\/a>
\ngarnered the evening\u2019s other $100,00 Performance of the Night\u201d
\naward for his finish of ex-middleweight ruler Israel
\nAdesanya<\/a> in the evening\u2019s headliner. Pyfer weathered a slow
\nstart, then shifted momentum by rocking his opponent with power
\npunches on the feet in the second round. From there, \u201cBodybagz\u201d
\nlanded a takedown and eventually put Adesanya away with
\nground-and-pound at the 4:18 mark of the period.<\/p>\n

Preliminary Barnburner Earns $100K
\n
\nFinally, Tofiq
\nMusayev<\/a> and Ignacio
\nBahamondes<\/a> garnered \u201cFight of the Night\u201d honors and $100,000
\napiece for their preliminary lightweight duel. Bahamondes had the
\nedge early, especially when he dropped his adversary with a right
\nhand early in the second stanza. Musayev would rally, however, as
\nhe cut Bahamondes wide open with an elbow and proceeded to turn the
\ntide behind takedowns, control and ground-and-pound to capture a
\nunanimous decision triumph. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexa Grasso made a statement against Alexa Grasso. | Getty\/UFC Alexa Grasso authored one of the most memorable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1331,43,45555,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-568285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-https-www-sherdog-com-news-news-ufc","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}