Shara Magomedov picked up a performance bonus for his submission win at UFC Oklahoma City, according to MMA Mania.<\/p>\n
The outlet reported Sunday that the middleweight<\/a> scored one of the night’s post-fight awards for a finish described as unique. UFC Oklahoma City took place Saturday at Paycom Center, with Magomedov adding another stoppage to his promotional resume.<\/p>\n Du Plessis books Usman next<\/p>\n Middleweight<\/a> champion Dricus Du Plessis has agreed to face former welterweight<\/a> king Kamaru Usman in his next title defense, per the same report. No date or venue has been announced for the matchup, which pairs the South African titleholder against a fighter moving up from 170 pounds.<\/p>\n Elsewhere on the card, referee Herb Dean came under scrutiny for a stoppage that drew criticism from fans and media. MMA Mania noted the incident as the latest in a string of controversial calls involving the veteran official.<\/p>\n UFC has not yet confirmed the next event location or when Du Plessis and Usman will meet.<\/p>\n Photo: Sexto Round \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, CC BY 3.0<\/a><\/p>\n Original reporting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shara Magomedov picked up a performance bonus for his submission win at UFC Oklahoma City, according to MMA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-751688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751688","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=751688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}