Sean O’Malley and Kris Moutinho will both go home with an extra $75,000 after winning Fight of the Night at UFC 264, but Dana White actually believes their battle could have ended even sooner than it did.
Taking the fight against O’Malley on less than two weeks’ notice, Moutinho showed incredible toughness and durability as he took the best shots from the highly touted bantamweight prospect and just kept moving forward. Unfortunately by the third round, Moutinho had absorbed a mountain of punishment and after O’Malley connected with one particularly brutal combination, referee Herb Dean decided to stop the fight.