Anderson Silva, Griffin, Ortiz earn $75,000 post-fight awards

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Anderson Silva, Forrest Griffin and Tito Ortiz each earned $75,000 bonuses for their performances at Saturday’s UFC 148 event.

Silva earned the “Knockout of the Night” award and Griffin and Ortiz picked up “Fight of the Night” honors. With no submissions on Saturday’s sold-out pay-per-view card, there was no “Submission of the Night” bonus.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) learned of the winners and bonus amounts at the night’s post-event press conference, where they were announced by UFC president Dana White.

UFC 148 took place at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The event’s main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.

After being dominated in the first round against Chael Sonnen, Silva defended his middleweight title by stopping Sonnen with a second-round TKO. Sonnen took Silva down six seconds into the fight and kept him down, looking for ground-and-pound. But in the second, Silva took advantage of a Sonnen slip, landed a knee to the body and followed it with strikes to the head while Sonnen covered up.

In the co-main event, Griffin and Ortiz completed the rubber match of their trilogy with a back-and-forth battle that saw Griffin win a close unanimous decision, 29-28 on all three judges’ scorecards. The fight was Ortiz’s last before retirement.

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