There was plenty of money to be made Saturday night as all three tri-feature dogs cashed tickets at UFC 92. Led by Frank Mir’s (+360) win over Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Rashad Evans (+150) and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (+120) also scored major victories. All three features and eight of ten matches on the action packed card ended in knockouts.

Evans remained undefeated and won the UFC (205 lb) light heavyweight by stopping Forrest Griffin at 2:46 of the third round. Griffin had won the first two rounds of the judge’s cards but slipped breaking his hand in the fall. Evans seized the opportunity by pouncing on Griffin who was unable to offer effective guard.20The bout was stopped on strikes.

Evans will likely face the winner of Thiago Silva and Lyoto Machida who fight Jan 17th in Ireland on UFC 93 as his first title defense.

Nogueira had never been stopped in his legendary 36 fight career, until last night. Mir dominated start to finish taking down the “Minatauro” with a leg sweep and dropping him twice with punches in the first five minutes. In round two, Mir struck again with a left hook that sent Nogueira to the canvass. More Mir punches on the floor and Herb Dean called it at 1:56.

Mir, the new interim heavyweight champ earned the right to face Brock Lesnar for the heavyweight (265) belt. Mir submitted Lesnar with an arm bar in the former WWE wrestler’s UFC debut. 

Quinton Jackson had been knocked twice by Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva while the two fought in Pride. The third time was the charm for Rampage who knocked Silva out cold with a left hook and added three big rights to the defenseless Brazilian’s head before getting pulled of at 3:21 of the first.

Jackson has legal problems to resolve but will likely take a rematch with Griffin as his next fight. Griffin took Jackson’s belt on a controversial split decision six months ago.