Rising UFC Lightweight Ignacio Bahamondes had quite the response to his $50,000 UFC 313 bonus.
A training partner of UFC Welterweight Champion Belal Muhammad, Chile’s Ignacio Bahamondes snagged the largest win of his 22-fight profession on Saturday night with a triangle choke submission of Jalin Turner.
This win can be Bahamondes’ third-straight within the shark tank that’s the UFC lightweight division.
The joys and the agony can be heard backstage, Turner turning in an early retirement from the game at 29 years old and Bahamondes cashing in on his top-15 rating, come Tuesday.
Belal Muhammad delivers news of $50K bonus
In his corner, Muhammad couldn’t be more pleased with Bahamondes’ performance— the identical could possibly be said for the UFC brass, who handed out $200,000 in bonuses at UFC 313.
Certainly one of them had ‘La Jaula’ written throughout it. Muhammad touched up on his Spanish to inform Bahamondes he received the bonus, met by much fanfare from the newly-minted contender.
“I used to be gonna say, I’ve been doing Spanish classes and tell me how this sounds… ‘Ganaste el bonus de noche,’” Muhammad told Bahamondes backstage, which translates to ‘you won the bonus of the night’.
Bahamondes let loose a yell in celebration before embracing Muhammad.
“I’m just practicing my Spanish,” Muhammad joked. “Labor, brother. Labor.”
Brotherhood between titleholder & title-hopeful
Muhammad took the road most traveled for his UFC title shot against Leon Edwards last summer, defeating ‘Rocky’ by decision to turn into the brand new welterweight champion of the world.
The 27-year-old Bahamondes has his own dreams of UFC gold, and is willing to work for it just as Muhammad did on his 10-fight unbeaten streak, beating the likes of Gilbert Burns, Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson, Sean Brady and more.
“After all, after all, he showed me the trail himself,” Bahamondes told Hablemos MMA of coaching with Muhammad.
“He showed me the way it must be done, and he had the hardest path of all of them.
“He showed me that with pure exertions and consistency, I could make it, too. It’s only a matter of time.”
