UFC Long Island was a success. There were many exciting finish, and eight fighters received $50,000 bonus.
Eschewing the standard two Performances of the Night and one Fight of the Night award structure, officials handed out six additional bonuses to make it eight winners in total. Amanda Lemos and Ricky Simon were the Performance of the Night winners. Dustin Jacoby and Punahele Sorio were the Fight of the Night award recipients.
A Fight of the Night Bonus was also given to Matt Schnell (and Sumudaerji), who fought in a fight that was widely considered one of the best of the year.
Lemos and Li’s finishes both came on the main card, with Lemos utilizing a suffocating guillotine choke to defeat strawweight veteran Michelle Waterson and become the first fighter to finish Waterson since April 2017. Li defeated Muslim Salikhov in a big fight with a second round TKO.
On the preliminary portion of the card, Simon submitted the previously undefeated Jack Shore, Algeo survived a submission scare to pick up a TKO win over Herbert Burns, Jacoby scored a walk-off KO against Da Un Jung, and Soriano finished Dalcha Lungiambula with strikes in the featured prelim bout.
