Dana White awards Wang Cong with extra $50K bonus after ‘improbable’ UFC Vegas 96 knockout

Wang Cong broke a epic in her octagon debut at UFC Vegas 96, and now she’s getting a powerful deserved bonus for her efforts.

The Side toll road to the UFC outdated made relatively a splash in her first UFC battle by demolishing Victoria Leonardo with a brutal knockout factual 62 seconds into the opening round. The immediate-fire knockout helped Wang form the quickest observe for any debuting flyweight in UFC ladies’s historical previous and the second-quickest knockout in all of the historical previous of the UFC ladies’s flyweight division.

That’s why she modified into reasonably of upset to learn that her vivid observe didn’t contrivance at the side of a $50,000 bonus at the tip of the evening.

“Regain up and gain available in the market is no longer the kind of thing as a [Performance of the Night],” Wang wrote on Instagram. “Subsequent battle you will ogle more spectacular observe UFC. Don’t play with Joker all all over again!”

While he wasn’t in attendance at the match at the UFC APEX on Saturday, White caught up to ogle the fights and replied to Wang by informing her that she would primarily gain the $50,000 bonus she surely deserved.

“I modified into out of town and watched the battle at Mystique Boston on TV. You regarded AMAZING. I’m in conjunction with yet any other [Performance of the Night] bonus for u. Congrats u gain $50k”

This isn’t the fundamental time White has decided to hand out a bonus when he wasn’t in the constructing to pick who gets the more money at the tip of the evening. Fortunately for Wang, the UFC CEO saw her handiwork and seemingly she surely must maintain left with an additional $50,000 in her pocket.

The score moved Wang to 6-0 in her MMA profession and she additionally boasts a ambitious résumé in kickboxing, which involves a 2015 score over outdated UFC champion Valentina Shevchenko.