Yair Rodriguez, Alexey Oleynik, Augusto Mendes and Frankie Saenz all received $50,000 bonuses for their work at UFC Fight Night 103 in at Talking Stick Arena in Phoenix on Sunday night.
Rodriguez earned a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” paycheck for his decimation of B.J. Penn in the evening’s main event. The Mexican featherweight kept Penn off balance with a multi-faceted arsenal during a lopsided first round before dropping his foe with a front kick and a right hand early in round two. From there, “Pantera” polished off his foe with a flurry of ground-and-pound to bring an end to the contest 24 seconds into the stanza.