Josh Koscheck strikes it rich with UFC 106 fight bonuses
Josh Koscheck was the big winner last evening in more ways than simply defeating Anthony Johnson during UFC 106. 140,000 way to be exact.
UFC 106 took place from the Mandalay Bay Events Center last night, featuring a headlining bout between Forrest Griffin and Tito Ortiz.
Kos ended up taking home both the submission, and fight of the fight bonuses for his second round rear naked choke victory over “Rumble” that capped off an electrifying battle. He walked away with a cool $70,000 for each honor, for a combined bonus total of 140 grand.
Also going home with a big pat on the back from the UFC in the form of an enormous paycheck was Johnson for his tussle with Koscheck, and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, who lit up Luiz Cane like a Christmas tree to collect his bonus.
Cory Brady is the managing editor of FiveOuncesOfPain.com, along with being a regular feature writer with Ultimate MMA Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/corybrady
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Weak-Sauce.
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Well-Done.
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Hot debate. What do you think?
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There were much better subs and forest and tito was fotn imo.
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Between the fake eye poke, to the blatant eye poke, to the illegal-but-we’ll-overlook-it almost knee to the head, that only hit his forarm… I was disgusted with this fight entirely!
Well-Done.
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Well-Done.
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Hot debate. What do you think?
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Definately agree with them getting foty. I thought they had a great back and forth battle minus all the fouls. Thought Kendall should of got sub of the night though.
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foty*… FOTN definately not good enough to take foty.
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Wow, whose ass did Kos kiss for that?
Sub of the Night was Kendal Grove, Knockout of the Night was Ben Saunders, Fight of the Night was Ortiz/Griffin.
Instead, the most annoying TUF graduate (besides Junie Browning and Matt Serra) walks away with $140K extra? I’m calling Bullshit!
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I can understand the UFC wanting to thank Kos and Rumble for making this fight happen on short notice, but I woulden’t do it through the fight Bonuses. Just toss them some extra cash in the dressing room.
My thought is Grove was Sub of the night, although the George S. also had a great sub on the undercard.
I don’t think you can really argue with Saunders as KO of the night. (Although little Nog had a sweet KO that is getting over looked).
If the third round wasn’t so one sided I’d have said Ortiz/Griffin for FOTN, but instead I’d say Volkman/Thiago .
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I thought also that Thiago / Volkman fight was good and Sub of the night was George S. was the sub of the night..Koscheck is freaking rich…
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I’ll take your word on George S. I haven’t seen the untelevised fights. He’s pretty slick with his jiu-jitsu though.
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The good old eye poke won him the extra $. Rumble had him ’til he faked the eye poke and recovered after those 5 min. Def not the sotn, grove’s arm bar / triangle should have won.
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I actually thought George S. and Jason Dent was well on its way to winning FotN, It was a very fast paced back and forth technical battle on the feet with some slick ground work near the end. How he didn’t atleast pull out SotN I won’t know, but I thought that fight was pretty exciting. And if not George, Kendall’s submission was also slick as hell. Disappointing…
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KOSCHECK IS A HAM SANDWICH-THE GUY SOUNDS WORSE THAN TITO-TAKE THE DYE OUT OF YOUR HAIR AND GET REAL
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