Paulo Henrique Costa and Yoel Romero went toe-to-toe for three memorable rounds at UFC 241, padding their respective bank accounts in the process.
Costa and Romero received “Fight of the Night” honors and $50,000 apiece for their featured middleweight bout at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday night. In a back-and-forth slugfest where the combatants combined to land 243 significant strikes, Costa emerged with a hard-fought unanimous decision triumph.
Elsewhere, Stipe Miocic captured a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” check for his enthralling come-from-behind victory against Daniel Cormier in the evening’s headliner.