UFC Fight Night 106 bonuses: With no 'Fight of Night,' who took home the 4 performance honors?

FORTALEZA, Brazil – Kelvin Gastelum, Edson Barboza, Paulo Borrachinha and Michel Prazeres each earned $50,000 fight-night bonuses at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 106 event.

All four earned “Performance of the Night” awards; no “Fight of the Night” honors were handed out.

UFC officials announced the winners following the event, which MMAjunkie attended.

Gastelum (14-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC) emerged as a new contender in the middleweight division with a first-round TKO of former light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort (25-14 MMA, 14-10 UFC) in the main event. Belfort had his moments and hurt Gastelum, but ultimately succumbed to punches, making him a perfect 4-0 as a middleweight in the UFC.

Barboza (19-4 MMA, 13-4 UFC) has a bunch of highlight-reel finishes on his resume. He added another in his lightweight fight against Beneil Dariush (14-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC). It wasn’t easy going for the Brazilian in the first round, or in the first half of the second. But when Dariush came forward with a punch, Barboza timed a perfect knee that cracked Dariush on the jaw and put him out cold on the canvas in an instant.

Borrachinha (9-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) made quite an impression on the middleweight division in his UFC debut against Garreth McLellan (13-6 MMA, 1-4 UFC). Borrachinha needed just 77 seconds to rip through his South African opponent to open up the card on UFC Fight Pass. After scoring with a body kick, Borrachinha unleashed punches along the fence until McLellan dropped.

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Prazeres (22-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) took out Josh Burkman (28-15 MMA, 6-10 UFC) with a first-round north-south choke in their lightweight fight on the prelims. After the fight, Burkman lamented his most recent UFC stint and his struggles and doesn’t believe he’ll be back in the promotion – leaving him to contemplate retirement.

UFC Fight Night 106 took place at Centro de Formacao Olimpica do Nordeste in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. The card aired on FS1 following early prelims on UFC Fight Pass.

For more on UFC Fight Night 106, check out the UFC Events section of the site.