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UFC heavyweight Pat Barry earned a $120,000 bonus on top of his $14,000 fight purse for his victory last month at UFC 104 in Los Angeles. A dramatic increase in wealth and recognition, especially for someone who, a week prior, had nothing to his name, was eating rice and ketchup, and was still hopelessly awaiting acceptance from a former mentor.

Barry improved his MMA record to 5-1 by stopping former training partner Antoni Hardonk in the second round with punches. For Barry, who has been competing since 2002, it took much more than a single training camp and enduring two accidental eye pokes and leg kicks during the fight for his big payday.

"People think it took seven-and-a-half minutes to make all this money," Barry told FanHouse. "It took seven years to make this. This wasn't seven-and-a-half minutes of work. This is seven years straight -- no family, not around my friends, not married, I got no kids. It's just me on the grind, chasing the dream. It took seven years to finally make a payday."

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LOS ANGELES -- Pat Barry was very emotional following his second-round TKO victory over Antoni Hardonk on Saturday night at UFC 104, and the former K-1 fighter, who has been involved in more than 30 kickboxing or MMA fights, told FanHouse immediately following fight that this was the biggest victory of his life.

Barry also talked about his improvement as a complete mixed martial artist and why he wants to fight Cheick Kongo next. Check out the video below.

This is the UFC 104 live blog for Antoni Hardonk vs. Pat Barry, a heavyweight bout between former K-1 kickboxers on the Spike TV portion of card.

Both strikers are looking to get back on the winning track. Prior to their most recent loss, Barry won his UFC debut in impressive fashion by leg kicks and Hardonk compiled a three-fight win streak in the UFC.

The live blog begins below.

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The UFC will show two live undercard fights on Spike TV during its UFC 104 show, once again giving fans a couple of fights for free to whet their appetites for pay-per-view.

Spike said today that it will air two preliminary fights -- Ryan Bader vs. Eric Schafer and Antoni Hardonk vs. Pat Barry -- live at 9 PM ET on October 24, an hour before the UFC 104 pay-per-view broadcast begins. The one-hour broadcast will air without commercials and could include other fights on tape delay, time permitting.

Cheick Kongo has taken another step toward getting a UFC heavyweight title shot, defeating Antoni Hardonk by second-round TKO Saturday night at UFC 97.

Welcome to the FanHouse UFC 97 live blog of Saturday night's undercard fights, where we'll have live results and round-by-round updates of the three undercard fights on the pay-per-view show: Cheick Kongo vs. Antoni Hardonk, Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Brian Stann and Luiz Cane vs. Steve Cantwell.

The fights are underway and the live blog begins below.

Cheick Kongo	vs.	Antoni Hardonk
13-4-1	Record	8-4
No. 10 heavyweight	Rank	No. 35 heavyweight
8-1	(T)KO Record	6-0
2-0	Sub. Record	2-1
3-3-1	Dec. Record	0-3
W-2	Streak	W-3
233	Weight	246
6-4	Height	6-4
33	Age	32
Wolfslair	Camp	Vos Gym
Paris, France	Hometown	Weesp, The Netherlands

Cheick Kongo will take on Antoni Hardonk Saturday night at UFC 97 in a battle that could go a long way toward establishing the winner as a future heavyweight title contender. The full preview is below.

The April 18 UFC 97 show in Montreal has added a solid heavyweight match-up of Cheick Kongo vs. Antoni Hardonk to an already impressive card featuring Chuck Liddell vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Anderson Silva vs. Thales Leites in the co-main events.