{"id":39016,"date":"2026-06-27T22:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Four-Performance-of-the-Night-bonuses-handed-out-at-UFC-Baku-201670"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:21:38","slug":"four-performance-of-the-night-bonuses-handed-out-at-ufc-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/four-performance-of-the-night-bonuses-handed-out-at-ufc-baku\/","title":{"rendered":"Four &#8216;Performance of the Night&#8217; bonuses handed out at UFC Baku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/four-performance-of-the-night-bonuses-handed-out-at-ufc-baku.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p> Standout finishers ruled the day at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-June-27-112205\">UFC<br \/>\nBaku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main event winner <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Rafael-Fiziev-202657\">Rafael<br \/>\nFiziev<\/a> was one of four fighters to earn a $100,000 \u201cPerformance<br \/>\nof the Night\u201d award on Saturday at National Gymnastic Arena in<br \/>\nBaku, Azerbaijan. \u201cAtaman\u201d vanquished <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Manuel-Torres-297203\">Manuel<br \/>\nTorres<\/a> with a spinning wheel kick and follow-up punches 15<br \/>\nseconds into Round 2 of their lightweight headliner.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Chasing History<\/h2>\n<p>Elsewhere, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Asu-Almabayev-219183\">Asu<br \/>\nAlmabayev<\/a> garnered $100,000 for a late submission triumph<br \/>\nagainst <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Charles-Johnson-254715\">Charles<br \/>\nJohnson<\/a> in a flyweight scrap. \u201cZulfikhar\u201d tapped Johnson with a<br \/>\nkneebar 3:33 into the third stanza to secure his third consecutive<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a> triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Abdul-Rakhman-Yakhyaev-395509\">Abdul-Rakhman<br \/>\nYakhyaev<\/a> was an easy choice for a \u201cPerformance of the Night\u201d<br \/>\ncheck, as he made short work of <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Julius-Walker-366067\">Julius<br \/>\nWalker<\/a> at light heavyweight. Yakhyaev knocked out Walker eight<br \/>\nseconds into Round 1, tying him for the second fastest finish ever<br \/>\nat 205 pounds and seventh in the UFC overall.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Daniil-Donchenko-357199\">Daniil<br \/>\nDonchenko<\/a> received the card\u2019s final $100,000 \u201cPeformance of the<br \/>\nNight\u201d award thanks to a stoppage of Theodor Berggen in a<br \/>\nwelterweight pairing. Donchenko put his foe away with a head kick<br \/>\nand punches 1:35 into the second stanza.<\/p>\n<p><center readability=\"2.0132743362832\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.4424778761062\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/UFCBaku?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCBaku<\/a><br \/>\nwas packed with standout performances and memorable finishes.<\/p>\n<p>See which four fighters stood above the rest and earned Performance<br \/>\nof the Night bonuses \u2b07\ufe0f<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hduYdc3L9e\">https:\/\/t.co\/hduYdc3L9e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC News (@UFCNews) <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UFCNews\/status\/2070964265318842674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><br \/>\nJune 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standout finishers ruled the day at UFC Baku. Main event winner Rafael Fiziev was one of four fighters to earn a $100,000 \u201cPerformance of the Night\u201d award on Saturday at National Gymnastic Arena in Baku, Azerbaijan. \u201cAtaman\u201d vanquished Manuel Torres with a spinning wheel kick and follow-up punches 15 seconds into Round 2 of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}