Cage Warriors is upping the ante for fighters on its cards hoping that more of them will go after not just finishes, but unique finishes.

Starting with Cage Warriors 70, which takes place Saturday in Dublin, any fighter on the promotion’s cards who ends a fight with one of 10 of what it has deemed to be the rarest of finishes will earn a $2,000 bonus.

Cage Warriors CEO Graham Boylan revealed the new bonus plan to MMAjunkie on Friday and said the awards will be available to any fighter on the card, regardless of their placement on the show.

The $2,000 “bounty” will be available for the following finishes: Head kick knockout, twister, knee bar, heel hook, gogoplata, flying knee knockout, Superman punch knockout, knockout in less than 60 seconds, spinning knockout and slam knockout.

“This is for every Cage Warriors event moving forward,” Boylan told MMAjunkie.

Other promotions have offered up bonuses to fighters who finish fights, regardless of style, as a means of encouraging athletes to keep fights exciting for the fans. But Cage Warriors’ plan to give out bonuses based on the type of finish appears to be the first of its kind in MMA.

At Cage Warriors 69 earlier this summer, for example, Brett Caswell would have made an extra $2,000 for his second-round heel hook win over Spencer Hewitt. (Check out that full fight video below.)

The UFC, of course, is the industry leader when it comes to post-fight bonus awards. It gives out $50,000 awards each event for a “Fight of the Night,” plus two “Performance of the Night” bonuses. It recently changed its structure from a “Submission of the Night” and “Knockout of the Night” each event to allow two individual performances to be singled out in the case of no knockouts or no submissions on a card.

But Boylan’s new challenge to Cage Warriors fighters might produce some interesting attempts by fighters going after some extra money.

Cage Warriors 70 takes place Saturday in Dublin with a main card that streams on MMAjunkie (4 p.m. ET) following prelims on Cage Warriors’ Facebook page (2:45 p.m. ET). The England-based promotion then returns less than a week later for Cage Warriors 71 next Friday in Amman, Jordan.

And now we wait to see who will be the first to pick up one of the promotion’s new “bounty” awards.

For more on Cage Warriors 70 and the rest of the promotion’s upcoming events, check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.

(Pictured: Brett Caswell vs. Spencer Hewitt, Cage Warriors 69)

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