News ACR Poker Ambassador Tommy McMillen Survives a Noche UFC War and Moves to 12-0 Owen Gaines Owen Gaines is a professional poker player and author who has played an estimated ten million hands and written four poker strategy books. September 16, 2026 McMillen rallied after a dangerous second round to beat Marwan Rahiki by unanimous decision, earn Fight of the Night and collect his third straight $100,000 UFC bonus.ACR Poker ambassador Tommy “Gun” McMillen went into Noche UFC on Saturday, September 12 with a perfect record and an opponent who had never lost either. Three rounds later, one of those zeros was gone. McMillen beat Marwan Rahiki by unanimous decision at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, moving to 12-0 professionally and 3-0 in the UFC.The result alone was important. The way he got there made it better. Rahiki had McMillen in genuine trouble in the second round, forcing him to survive before he could turn the momentum back. McMillen answered in the third with a knockdown, pressure and enough control to take all three judges’ scorecards.The reward was bigger than another win. The fight earned Fight of the Night and another $100,000 bonus — McMillen’s third $100,000 UFC bonus in three appearances. That is $300,000 in bonus money in his rookie UFC year.Two Unbeaten Fighters. One Had to Blink.McMillen entered Noche UFC at 11-0. Rahiki arrived at 9-0. That made the matchup unusually clean: two young featherweights, two perfect professional records and no need to manufacture stakes.The first round gave both men room to settle into the fight. The second did not. Rahiki found a surge, hurt McMillen badly and came close enough to a finish that simply reaching the third round became part of the story.The Second Round Was the TestMcMillen’s first two UFC wins had ended by stoppage. Against Manolo Zecchini in April, he finished the fight in the first round. Against Alberto Montes in July, he poured on offense until the referee stopped it in round three.Rahiki made him solve a different problem. He forced McMillen to fight while hurt, manage the danger and get through a round that was moving away from him. It was the kind of spot that does not show up in an undefeated record until somebody finally creates it.McMillen survived it. Then he came back out for round three looking like a fighter who understood the fight was still there to be won.Round Three Flipped the Fight BackThe last five minutes became McMillen’s answer. He scored a knockdown, pushed the grappling exchanges and kept Rahiki working as the round moved toward the final horn.The official scorecards were unanimous: 29-28, 29-28 and 29-27 for McMillen. Rahiki took his first professional loss. McMillen kept his perfect record.Afterward, McMillen summed up the experience in eight words: “I had the time of my life in there.” McMillen’s UFC Run So Far Fight Results Date Opponent Result Key Stat Bonus Apr. 4 Manolo Zecchini TKO, R1 3:57 UFC debut Fight of the Night — $100K Jul. 18 Alberto Montes TKO, R3 3:29 252 significant strikes Bonus — $100K Sept. 12 Marwan Rahiki UD, 29-28 / 29-28 / 29-27 Moves to 12-0 Fight of the Night — $100K Three UFC Fights, Three $100K BonusesMcMillen has not just won his first three UFC fights. He has been paid an extra $100,000 after every one of them.His debut against Zecchini became a first-round brawl and earned Fight of the Night. The July win over Montes brought another $100,000 award after McMillen set a UFC record for significant strikes landed in a three-round fight. Noche UFC made it three in a row.For a fighter who has openly talked about wanting to stay active and chase bonuses, the pattern is difficult to miss: every UFC appearance so far has produced both a win and a six-figure bonus.The 252-Strike Fight Set the StageThe Rahiki win makes more sense when placed next to what happened two months earlier. On July 18 in Oklahoma City, McMillen landed 252 significant strikes against Alberto Montes before stopping him late in round three.The UFC record book lists 252 as the most significant strikes ever landed in a three-round fight. It was not simply volume for the sake of a statistic. The pace eventually broke Montes down and gave McMillen his second UFC stoppage.That performance also showed why Rahiki’s second-round success mattered. Noche UFC was not another fight where McMillen could simply increase the output until the opponent disappeared. He had to absorb a major momentum swing first. Poker Never Really Left Fight WeekMcMillen’s second fight as an ACR Poker ambassador also produced a few scenes that looked nothing like a standard fight camp.In clips shared with ACR Poker, McMillen kept playing online while cutting the final bit of weight and moving through training week. One clip shows a laptop beside the training mats. Another has him playing from a hot tub. The caption on one fight-week post summed it up as “peak life” while he was still cutting weight.There is an obvious contrast there. Most fight-week coverage is built around pads, scales, faceoffs and recovery. McMillen apparently had room for a few poker hands too.The Ambassador Role Fits His PersonalityMcMillen is not a poker professional who happens to fight. He is a full-time mixed martial artist who genuinely likes poker, and that distinction is part of what makes the crossover work.The ACR Poker clips do not need much setup. There is McMillen in the middle of a fight week, laptop open, getting hands in whenever the schedule allows. For poker players, that is more relatable than trying to turn every appearance into a formal endorsement.ACR Poker has been following the run as part of Team ACR, and the result in Glendale gave the partnership another easy headline: the ambassador is still unbeaten.What Comes Next?McMillen has already said he wants to stay active and fight again before the end of 2026. That would fit the pace he has kept all year. His April debut was followed by the July win over Montes, then Noche UFC arrived only 57 days later.The next opponent is not confirmed. What is confirmed is the trajectory: 12-0 as a professional, 3-0 in the UFC, three straight $100,000 bonuses and a first decision win that required him to recover from the toughest round of his UFC career.For more player, ambassador and tournament stories, follow the latest ACR Poker news.There will be cleaner wins. There will probably be less stressful rounds. But if McMillen really wants the fights that make him dig deep, Noche UFC gave him exactly that — and he still walked out with the win.