UFC Fresno : Brian Ortega's second-round finish nets him $100,000
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Brian Ortega landed a huge victory in Fresno, and as a result managed to earn himself an extra reward $100,000.
“T-City” faced off with Cub Swanson on the ticket's main event of the UFC Fight Night card in Fresno, Calif. The event took place on Saturday night, where Ortega was able to tap out the veteran with a standing guillotine in the second round.
Dana White was asked to comment on the fight and in particular Ortega’s dominant performance. The following is what he had to say about the fight:
“Ortega is the real deal. This guy has an incredible chin, he is willing to mix it up, stand up and bang with anybody. And his jiu-jitsu is ridiculous, I have never seen, and let’s remember Cub is a black belt in jiu-jitsu,” White told UFC on Fox Sport’s Laura Sanko.
“He has the choke in, takes the hand out to readjust while he is up in the air, gets it and, wow, the kid is incredible and he is absolutely, positively the future. This kid is a grounded, humble, down-to-earth kid and he came up and said, ‘I want to do big things inside and outside the Octagon, I want to do a lot of charity work. A lot of great things like that. For all the people that admire him, he is worth the admiration I will tell you that,” he concluded.
Ortega, who managed to move his record to an impressive 13-0 in MMA added his fifth straight stoppage victory in the UFC, along with two bonuses. He was awarded Performance of the Night and Fight of the Night, by the UFC. It wasn't all bad news for Swanson either, finished his contractual obligation and becoming a free agent after UFC Fresno and also receiving an extra $50,000 purse in defeat.
Ortega's stunning victory will certainly shake the division and be a message to other worthy fighters that they better train hard considering he just took out one of the most-experienced and seasoned veterans in all of MMA with a spectacular finish in his first-ever headlining bout for the promotion.
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Some killers in the Featherweight division!
Cub Swanson is a beast too. Very impressive
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That's also the second UFC event in a row where the winner is respectful and doesn't do any trash talk.