UFC Shanghai bonuses: Song Yadong's epic upset rewarded with $100,000

The UFC handed out four bonuses after Saturday's UFC Fight Night 286 card in “The Magic City,” including the Upset of the Year contender in the main event.

There were a total of 10 finishes on the card, but a few candidates were eliminated due to weight misses. Four fighters picked up an extra $100,000 for their performances at Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in China, including one loser for his size of the Fight of the Night. Additionally, five fighters got $25,000 extra checks for finishes that weren’t bonus-winners. 

Check out the list of winners below. 

There was no doubt Song Yadong (24-9-1 MMA, 13-4-1 UFC) was going to be rewarded after one of the most surprising main event results of the year when he became the first to finish a core Nurmagomedov family member in MMA with a mind-blowing second-round knockout of Umar in Shanghai, just shy of the nine-year anniversary of his octagon debut in the same city.

Just 18 days after winning a contract on Dana White's Contender Series, Bilal Hasan (10-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) experienced another fairytale moment when he got maximum bonus money for his one-punch knockout of Nilson Rojas in their bantamweight matchup on the main card.

It lasted less than four and a half minutes, but the light heavyweight brawl between Liu Ce (4-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) and Levi Rodrigues Jr. (5-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC) was good enough to take home Fight of the Night honors. It was a thrilling scrap while it last and was ultimately capped off when Ce landed a canon on the chin of Rodrigues Jr. that faceplanted him into the canvas and sent the crowd into elation.

• Denise Gomes
• Kai Asakura
• Rei Tsuruya
• Francesco Nuzzi
• Hector Santiago

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC Shanghai bonuses: Song Yadong's epic upset rewarded with $100,000