Kayla Harrison and Merab Dvalishvili placed on a pair of standout performances to win their championship bouts Saturday at UFC 316.
In the principle occasion of the night, males’s bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili submitted Sean O’Malley to score a second victory over his rival, whereas Kayla Harrison placed on a dominant efficiency towards Julianna Peña within the co-main occasion to turn out to be the brand new ladies’s bantamweight champion.
For his or her efforts, the winners had been rewarded with $50,000 Efficiency of the Evening bonuses.
No Combat of the Evening bonus was given, that means there have been two extra efficiency bonuses, which went to Kevin Holland, making his third look of 2025, and UFC debutant Joo Sang Yoo.
Holland confirmed off his grappling abilities to open the principle card as he scored a slick submission of Vicente Luque. That is Holland’s ninth Efficiency of the Evening bonus.
Yoo made an unbelievable first octagon impression by needing just one punch to knock out Jeka Saragih. The South Korean fighter improved to 9-0 with the win.
