ONE's first event of 2022, "Strike Hard"
After all the competitions of the first one championship 2022", "Heavy Punch", which was held on January 15, three best performance awards were officially awarded, each of which awarded $50,000. The three were: Sergid Itzhagomayev (who defeated his opponent in round 2), Shinzo Ikeda (KO opponent in round 3), and Ikatrina vandayeva (who lost to her opponent in disagreement).
Three winners
This is not the first time ONE has issued this award, but ONE said that from this time on, the event will be awarded the best performance, becoming a fixed prize that matches the "best of the night" of the UFC event, and the prize money is $50,000 per person (the number of people judged each time is uncertain).
We all know that the UFC has the best prize of the night very early, usually 4 people win, but at the most there are 8 people winning, 50,000 US dollars per person, which is also a big expense for the event side. So apart from the wealthy UFC, few other events have been able to give the best reward of the night every time.
So this one-time winner's decision is indeed good news for the one-one champions and an appreciated decision.
Here's the question, why did Vandayeva win the prize this time and the super girl who beat her didn't win?
Vandayeva fiercely fights supergirls
First of all, let's explain the original intention of ONE to set up this award, ONE set up this award to emphasize that this award is for the outstanding players in the competition, not necessarily the winner. Looking at the performance of "Boxing Barbie" Van dayaeva in this battle, it is indeed superior in terms of distance control, strike effect, including the number of effective blows, it is very normal to judge her victory, but the referee camp awarded supergirl, it is said that the ONE boss came down angry, "I am not a referee, but I know Muay Thai, this is Van Dayeva's easy victory, even very disparity, I just don't know what the referees are watching, what they are judging." "The boss can't change the referee's decision, but he can decide who to give the prize money to, so there is a scene where the loser gets the prize money and the winner doesn't have the bonus."
In fact, there is another deep reason here, that is, a competition committee composed of 14 senior people set up before the ONE Championship was dissolved. In this way, the referee's judgment on the night of the game is final, and there is no place to appeal and cannot be changed. So, this time the super girl won the victory, and the boxing barbie won the prize money, which is also a balance.
In addition, it is a pity that Xiong Jingnan did not get this award this time. I don't know in advance she knows to evaluate this award no, this time if you can KO Miura Caijia, she will definitely be able to get this 50,000 prize, and she really has the ability to KO opponents, but still play a little conservative, unfortunately.