Controversy or not, Kevin Lee is going to be $50,000 richer.
Aforementioned main eventer Kevin Lee, as well as Tim Boetsch, Dominick Reyes and Jeremy Kimball all took home $50,000 performance rewards.
Lee took on fellow lightweight standout Michael Chiesa in the evening's main event. Late in the first round, “The Motown Phenom” secured a rear-naked choke for the biggest win of his career at 4:37 of Round 1. Unfortunately, it appeared that referee Mario Yamasaki had halted the bout prematurely, as Chiesa had neither tapped nor lost responsiveness, immediately calling for a rematch following his defeat on account of Yamasaki's questionable refereeing.
The 36-year-old Boetsch upset former UFC welterweight champion Johny Hendricks in the evening's co-headliner, capitalizing on his overweight opponent, knocking him out with a salvo of second-round uppercuts just 46 seconds into the frame.
Reyes and Kimball both took home quick KO's at 205 pounds: in the night's curtain jerker, Kimball clobbered Josh Stansbury with, among other punches, an unusual yet damaging standing hammerfist, while Reyes, now 7-0, recorded his fourth career knockout in under 60 seconds, dropping Denmark's Joachim Christensen twice and finishing off his handiwork in a mere 29 seconds.