UFC 160 bonuses: dos Santos, Hunt, Grant, Teixeira earn $50,000

LAS VEGAS – Junior dos Santos, Mark Hunt, T.J. Grant and Glover Teixeira each earned $50,000 bonuses for their performances at Saturday’s UFC 160 event.

Grant earned the “Knockout of the Night” award, Teixeira picked up the “Submission of the Night” bonus, and dos Santos and Hunt earned “Fight of the Night” honors.

UFC President Dana White announced the bonuses at the night’s post-fight press conference, which MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) attended.

UFC 160 took at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.

In the co-main event, former champion dos Santos continued to go after a finish against Mark Hunt, and deep into the third round he caught him with a spinning wheel kick. And one massive follow-up punch on the floor was all she wrote. White said dos Santos was going to get the “Knockout of the Night” award – but former boxing champion Mike Tyson, in attendance at the card, told him it should be Grant.

Grant stopped two-time lightweight title challenger Gray Maynard with a first-round TKO and earned a title shot against Benson Henderson.

Teixeira picked up the night’s lone submission when he took James Te Huna down. And when Te Huna tried to get back to his feet, he left his neck exposed. Teixeira, a 3-to-1 favorite, locked up a guillotine choke and Te Huna was forced to tap.

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(Pictured: Mark Hunt)