OH MY! @MeganA_mma finishes it w/ the right hand! #UFCNorfolk pic.twitter.com/QPC02CqsJ2
— UFC (@ufc) March 1, 2020
The Australian featherweight received a “Performance of the Night” bonus for her first-round knockout of Norma Dumont Viana in a main card affair at Chartway Arena on Saturday night. A perfectly-timed counter right hand sent Viana to the canvas and forced referee Kevin MacDonald to wave off the bout 3:31 into the opening stanza.
Elsewhere, Kyler Phillips and Gabriel Silva garnered “Fight of the Night” honors and $50,000 apiece for their preliminary bantamweight scrap. Ultimately, multi-punch combinations and competent grappling work carried Phillips to a unanimous decision triumph and his second consecutive victory.
Finally, Jordan Griffin earned the evening’s other $50,000 “Performance of the Night” award thanks to a submission of T.J. Brown in a preliminary featherweight pairing. Griffin countered a takedown from his foe with a guillotine choke and forced the submission with Brown still in side control at the 3:38 mark of Round 2 to halt a two-bout skid.