FanHouse PatBarry

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.

Pat Barry used powerful, effective punching to beat his rival Antoni Hardonk in a hard-hitting heavyweight bout at UFC 104.

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.