Patricky Freire pocketed an event-high $80,000 for his victory over Josh Thomson in the Bellator 172 headliner this past Saturday.
A right uppercut and follow-up hammerfists from “Pitbull” ended Thomson’s night 40 seconds into round two of their lightweight encounter. Thomson earned a disclosed $10,000 in defeat The California State Athletic Commission released salaries from the event to MMAFighting.com on Wednesday.
Other top earners for the event included Cheick Kongo, who garnered $75,000 for a lopsided unanimous decision triumph against Oli Thompson in the heavyweight co-main event and Josh Koscheck, who took home $75,000 for his promotional debut, a first-round TKO defeat to Mauricio Alonso ($20,000).