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Las Vegas, Nevada – Legacy Fada Alliance (LFA) CEO Ed Soares announced the promotion will kick off 2018 with an action-packed event in southern California.
Babban taron na LFA 30 will feature the long-awaited clash between southern California kingpins and top LFA welterweights “Curtious” Curtis Millender and Nick “The Phoenix” Barnes. LFA 30 – Millender vs. Barnes takes place Jumma'a, January 12th at the Costa Mesa Hall at the OC Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, California. A gaba dayan babban katin na LFA 30 – Millender vs. Barnes will be televised live and nationwide on AXS TV at 10 p.m. DA / 7 p.m. Santa.
“I’m excited to kick off 2018 by bringing LFA back to southern California”, Ajali Soares. “Curtis Millender and Nick Barnes are coming off big wins in LFA headlining bouts where they won in enemy territory. Now they get to face each other in the main event of LFA 30 on their home turf in a perfect headliner to start the new year.”
Mill Karshen (13-3) returns home to the building where he fought and won his first seven fights. The Orange County juggernaut is looking to build off a perfect 2017 where he won three fights, including back-to-back LFA headliners. His most recent win came via highlight reel Head Kick KO in the main event of LFA 24. Millender will meet Barnes (12-2) in a long-awaited showdown between two of southern California’s finest. The welterweight stars started their careers in the southern California regional circuit, moved on to Bellator, and will finally meet in the main event of LFA 30. Barnes, like Millender, is coming off an impressive win in an LFA headliner this past August at LFA 20.
While the main event will feature a rivalry between two of the top welterweights in LFA, the co-main event will feature a rivalry between two of the LFA featherweight division’s most talented jiu-jitsu practitioners.
Fernando Padilla (10-1) put the division on notice in October, when he submitted longtime RFA vet Darrick Minner with a Triangle-Armbar in the first round of their co-main event bout at LFA 25. Padilla, who is a 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu brown belt, has now won 90% of his fights by first round stoppage. He will now face a man equally dangerous on the ground when he meets Talison Soares (9-2) in the co-main event of LFA 30. Soares is a jiu-jitsu black belt from the famed Checkmat BJJ team who has made a name for himself competing in his native Brazil. Soares has a 100% finishing rate in the nine bouts he has won and will now make his international debut in the co-main event of LFA 30.
A halin yanzu sanar Main Card (Talabijin a kan AXS TV a 10 p.m. DA / 7 p.m. Santa):
Babban Event | Welterweight fadan (170 laba)
– Curtis Millender (13-3) vs. Nick Barnes (12-2)
Co-Main Event | Featherweight fadan (145 laba)
– Fernando Padilla (10-1) vs. Talison Soares (9-2)
Flyweight fadan (125 laba)
– Maikel Perez (4-1) vs. Charlie Alaniz (11-2)
Middleweight fadan (185 laba)
– Craig Wilkerson (7-3) vs. Jordan Wright (8-0)
Welterweight fadan (170 laba)
– Christian Aguilera (8-4) vs. Maycon Mendonça (6-3)
Bantamweight fadan (135 laba)
– Vince Cachero (3-0) vs. TBD
A watan Satumba 2016, Legacy FC and RFA officials announced that they would be merging to form the premier developmental organization in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fara a watan Janairu 2017. RFA da Legacy FC sun kaddamar da yabo da kan 150 'yan wasa da suka kai pinnacle na MMA da gasar a UFC.
LFA 30 will serve as the second LFA event to take place in the state of California after the merger. RFA hosted eight events inside “The Golden State” kafin ci. A gaba dayan babban katin na LFA 30 za a talabijin live da kasar a kan AXS TV a 10 p.m. DA / 7 p.m. Santa.
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