The FIGHT PASS Prelims Have Been Home To Some Of The Most Jaw Dropping Performances On Some Of The Biggest Cards. Take A Look At The FIGHT PASS Prelim Fighters Who Stole The Show!
Muslim Salikhov – UFC 242
On a card that featured Islam Makhachev, Edson Barboza, Paul Felder and more, it was Muslim Salikhov who landed a “blink of an eye” right hand that also earned him a Performance of the Night check.
Silvana Gomez Juarez was a Zhang Weili spinning backfist away from being the talk of UFC 275. The Singapore crowd saw their fair share of excitement with five KO finishes, but Gomez Juarez landed strikes that had the sound and effect of a small car accident. There was no doubt she’d be going home $50,000 richer.
Ricardo Ramos of Brazil celebrates after defeating Aiemann Zahabi of Canada in their bantamweight bout during the UFC 217 event at Madison Square Garden on November 4, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC)
The first fight of the night held its own with the last fight of the night, which was no easy task when Ricardo Ramos was opening the show for Georges St-Pierre vs Michael Bisping. Ramos put the fight game on notice when he landed back-to-back spinning back elbows worthy of a Baba O’Riley compilation video and had the arena rocking long before GSP even entered the building.
UFC 282 featured the most performance bonuses in a single UFC event and Dana White definitely wasn’t about to leave out Cameron Saaiman who represented for South Africa when he won by way of a last minute knee-induced stoppage in his UFC debut.
Ismael Bonfim of Brazil reacts after his knockout victory over Terrance McKinney in a lightweight fight during the UFC 283 event at Jeunesse Arena on January 21, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Zuffa LLC)
Terrance McKinney had just begun to put himself out there as one of the most explosive and exciting young strikers in the game when he met Ismael Bonfim on the UFC 283 FIGHT PASS Prelims. Bonfim taught the fans a lesson for sleeping on his 18-3 record with 12 finish wins. It didn’t take long to figure out somebody was going to sleep and just when the broadcast team put Bonfim’s undefeated brother on screen, McKinney was eating a knee and timbering face first into the mat.
Following Jimmy Flick’s upset submission over hometown favorite Malcolm Gordon, it was up to fellow Canadian Jasmine Jasudavicius to right the ship and that’s exactly what she did. Jasudavicius mauled and battered Priscila Cachoeira for almost an entire fight before sinking what felt like a mercy anaconda choke for the win.
On one of the most stacked cards of all time before the most stacked card of all time, Gegard Mousasi got the action rolling with a standout performance on the FIGHT PASS Early Prelims.