Overview
- Green submitted Stephens with a rear-naked choke at 4:20 of Round 1 on Saturday in Newark, opening the UFC 328 main card on Paramount+.
- The fight proceeded at a 160-pound catchweight after Stephens weighed in four pounds over the lightweight limit and forfeited 30 percent of his purse to Green.
- The victory pushed Green’s win streak to three, and after calling for extra pay he received a $25,000 finish bonus plus a promise of custom shorts from Dana White.
- Stephens set an unwanted UFC mark with his 20th loss, removed his gloves in the cage, then wrote on Instagram that he would recalibrate and keep moving forward.
- The outcome capped a week of money talk, as Green said he missed a past bonus and Stephens had criticized UFC bonuses before his miss on the scale.