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HOUSTON, Texas – Héritage Fighting Alliance (LFA) and the two promotions that merged to create it, RFA and Legacy FC, saw several more alum show up in full force and shine on the biggest stage when the UFC hosted UFC 222 in Las Vegas this past weekend.
Seven former fighters competed, which included three former champions. The seven fighters included Brian Ortega, Sean O’Malley, Mackenzie Dern, Alexander Hernandez, Pedro Munhoz, Zak Ottow, and Jordan Johnson. That group made up 29.16% of the entire card. Six of the seven fighters were victorious with the lone loss coming via controversial split decision.
“I am always excited to watch the many fighters from LFA, RFA, and Legacy show what they can do in the UFC,” stated LFA CEO Ed Soares. “What we saw Samedi night at UFC 222 is further proof that we are are producing the top prospects in MMA.”
En cas de co-principal, former RFA featherweight champion Brian Ortega, stole the show with a first round knockout of former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar. The undefeated contender known as “T-City” is widely regarded as one of the most dangerous submission masters in the sport, but it was an uppercut that allowed him to become the first person to finish the future Hall of Famer. The win also earned Ortega a shot at the UFC featherweight title and a $50,000 UFC “Performance of the Night” bonus.
Le “Sugar Show” was also in full effect on the main card as Sean O’Malley continued to wow fans with his creative and wildly entertaining striking arsenal against Andre Soukhamthath. The LFA standout unleashed a flurry that nearly finished his opponent at the end of Round 1. Soukhamthath was literally saved by the bell as he was stumbling around as the round ended. The second round saw O’Malley impress on the ground with his underrated submission attack. Cependant, it was the third and final round, that etched O’Malley’s name in MMA lore. After badly injuring his right foot, to the point he couldn’t stand on it, O’Malley finished out the fight by grappling. The huge lead he had built on the score cards through the first two rounds gave him the Unanimous Decision win. It resulted in a $50,000 UFC “Lutte de la Nuit” bonus and the first time Joe Rogan interviewed a winning fighter while he was lying on his back.
Mackenzie Dern made the most anticipated UFC debut of the year in the final fight of the preliminary card. The multiple-time jiu-jitsu world champion got her start in MMA with LFA and Legacy FC. Dern has since seen every step of her progression in the sport followed closely by media and fans alike. The daughter of legendary jiu-jitsu and judo black belt Wellington “Megaton” journées, Dern possesses the greatest grappling skills of any woman to compete in MMA. Dern used those skills in her UFC debut to close out the final round on her opponent Ashley Yoder’s back. She was unable to finish the Rear Naked Choke, but it was enough to earn her the Split Decision win.
Alexander Hernandez made his UFC debut on a week’s notice against #12 ranked Beneil Dariush. Like the old adage states, “with great risk comes great reward.” The Texan powerhouse, who made his mark under the LFA and RFA banners, wasted no time in dispatching his heavily favored and much more experienced opponent. “Alexandre le Grand” connected with a big left hand to knock out Dariush in just 42-seconds. The win earned him the other $50,000 UFC “Performance of the Night” bonus.
Zak Ottow also picked up a quick first round win. The RFA and Legacy FC alum earned a TKO win over UFC mainstay Mike Pyle midway through the opening round. The bout served as Pyle’s retirement bout and Ottow gave a touching show of respect to Pyle in his post-fight interview. This was Ottow’s third UFC win and the first after signing a new extension with the promotion.
Jordan Johnson got things moving in the right direction for the LFA alum at UFC 222. The former RFA light-heavyweight champion kept his undefeated record intact with a Split Decision win over former UFC heavyweight Adam Milstead. The win should set up a marquee matchup for the man who was victorious in the final bout under the RFA banner.
En Septembre 2016, les responsables RFA et l'héritage FC ont annoncé qu'ils fusionneront pour former LFA. This new powerhouse promotion would serve as the premier developmental organization in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) à partir de Janvier 2017. RFA et l'héritage FC ont lancé la carrière de plus 130 les athlètes qui ont atteint le sommet de MMA en participant à l'UFC.
LFA returns this Vendredi, March 9th with LFA 35 – Newell vs. Luque. The main event will feature the comeback fight of bona fide MMA star and inspirational congenital amputee “Célèbre” Nick Newell when he faces the gritty south Texan and Bellator vet Sonny “Fou” Luque. The event will take place at the Arena Theatre in Houston, Texas.
LFA 35 will be the fourth LFA event to take place in the City of Houston. It will also be the ninth time that the LFA has traveled to “Le Lone Star State” du Texas. La carte principale complète de LFA 35 seront retransmis en direct et à l'échelle nationale sur AXS TV au 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT.
Se il vous plaît visiter LFAfighting.com les mises à jour de combat et informations. LFA est sur Facebook à Héritage Fighting Alliance. LFA est également sur Instagram à @LFAfighting et Twitter @LFAfighting.
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Petrov remplace Anthony Yigit, Qui était Contraint à l'abandon pour cause de maladie
Invaincu poids lourd junior Fa à face Craig Lewis dans l'ouverture Bout de SHOWTIME tripleheader
BOXE SHOWTIME: ÉDITION SPÉCIALE Live At 10 p.m. ET/PT de Deadwood Mountain Grand à Deadwood, Dakota du Sud
NEW YORK (Mars 6, 2018) – Undefeated 140-pound contender Ivan Baranchyk will now face former world title challenger Petr Petrov this Friday, Mars 9, in the co-featured bout on SHOWTIME BOXING: ÉDITION SPÉCIALE en direct sur SHOWTIME à 10 p.m. ET/PT de Deadwood Mountain Grand à Deadwood, Dakota du Sud. The contest will be an eliminator for the No. 2 position in the IBF junior welterweight world rankings.
Petrov replaces Anthony Yigit, qui s'est retiré pour cause de maladie.
Also added to the SHOWTIME BOXING: SPECIAL EDITION tripleheader is a heavyweight matchup featuring undefeated prospect Junior Fa taking on once-beaten Craig Lewis in an eight-round bout to open up the telecast at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
In the previously announced 12-round main event, Invaincu 140 livres Regis Prograis affrontera l'ancien champion du monde unifié Julius Indongo pour le WBC intérimaire des super-légers du Championnat du Monde.
« Baranchyk et Petrov sont tous deux connus pour leurs styles tout-action et ne sont jamais dans un mauvais combat. Il est un ajout formidable à cette carte et je suis très heureux que nous avons pu mettre le combat ensemble à court préavis. Le fait que Petr a été la formation d'un autre combat une fois de plus a permis de créer un combat supérieure dans des circonstances difficiles,» A déclaré Lou DiBella, Président de DiBella Entertainment. « Nouvelle-Zélande des poids lourds perspective junior Fa fait une déclaration énorme dans sa dernière apparition sur Showtime et il va chercher à garder cet élan ce vendredi à Deadwood Mountain Grand contre la dure Craig Lewis. Boxing fans will remember Fa’s two amateur victories against Joseph Parker, who will attempt to unify heavyweight title belts against Anthony Joshua on SHOWTIME on Mars 31.”
Sporting a record of 38-5-2 avec 19 KOs, the 34-year-old Petrov, of Ryazan, Russie, and based in Madrid, Espagne, will look to bounce back into the win column following a hotly contested 12-round decision loss to WBO Lightweight World Champion Terry Flanagan on April 8, 2017, à Manchester, Angleterre. Prior to the loss to Flanagan, Petrov was on a six-bout winning streak, including victories over Michael Perez, Marvin Quintero and Gamalial Diaz. Over the last 10 ans, Petrov’s only other losses have come against world champions Marcos Maidana and Dejan Zlaticanin.
le Baranchyk (16-0, 10 KOs) vs. Petrov bout is promoted by DiBella Entertainment, en association avec Fight Promotions Inc., Holden Productions, Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing.
The 28-year-old Fa made an astounding statement in his U.S. network debut, l'arrêt Fred Latham au premier tour en Novembre 10, 2017, à Cleveland sur ShoBox: La Nouvelle Génération. Avant de devenir professionnel, la Nouvelle-Zélande natale a battu le champion du monde poids lourd actuel WBO Joseph Parker deux fois dans les amateurs.
Combats de Detroit, Michigan, Lewis (14-1-1, 8 KOs) retourne au combat suite à un KO au deuxième round de Galien Brown Août 12, 2017. Il a été invaincue dans le premier 15 combats de sa carrière professionnelle et a été le 2014 Gants d'or national médaillé de bronze des poids lourds.
L'événement est présenté par DiBella Entertainment. Billets, au prix de $200, $80 et $60, sont maintenant en vente, et peuvent être achetés sur Ticketmaster.com ou en appelant (877) 907-4726. Les portes ouvertes et le premier combat commence à 5:30 p.m. Plus d'informations sur la montagne Grand Deadwood se trouve sur leur site Web à www.DeadwoodMountainGrand.com.
Dmitriy Salita of Salita Promotions proudly announces the signing of undefeated Korean Ukrainian junior featherweight prospect Arnold Khegai. From the town of Razdelnoye in the region of Odessa, in the Ukraine, Khegai (11-0-1, 8 KOs) was last seen ripping away the undefeated record of then 11-1 Russian prospect Valery Tretyakov via last-second tenth-round KO.
“I really want to win over the audience in the US with my exciting style and my physical strength and endurance,” said the 25-year-old Khegai. “I am ready and willing to fight the best fighters in my weight class; anyone who stands in my path of getting a world title belt.”
Khegai switched over from being a world champion Thai boxer to a professional boxer in 2015 and has torn through a stiff level of domestic competition along the way.
Married with a degree from the Institute of Food Academy, Khegai says the deal with his promoter will set all of his dreams in motion. “I am very excited about signing this deal with Salita,” il a continué. “Now that I have time to properly prepare, my goal is to fight my way through the 122-lb division and become undisputed world champion.
“Arnold is a proud member of the small Korean community in the Ukraine,” ledit Dmitriy Salita. “He is incredibly strong and powerful and will be a challenge for anyone in the division. I am excited to have him make his debut on American soil on my show on Avril 20. I have no doubt he will quickly become a fan favourite and world champion.” |
Myriam Lamare, Belinda Laracuente, Jessica Rakoczy,
Mary Jo Sanders, Vonda Ward, Julie Lederman,
Belle Martell & Bernie McCoy |
The International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame has announced the 2018 intronisés. The eight honorees include five retired boxers, a referee, a boxing judge and a journalist. The fighters include Myriam Lamare, Belinda Laracuente, Jessica Rakoczy, Mary Jo Sanders and Vonda Ward; the boxing judge is Julie Lederman, the referee, honored posthumously, is Belle Martell and the journalist, the first male ever so honored, is Bernie McCoy.
Le 2018 inductees bring the five-year IWBHF total to thirty-seven. The Hall was conceived and founded in 2014 par Sue Fox, publisher and editor of WBAN, the longtime site of record for the sport of Women’s boxing. WBA, for over two decades, has spotlighted and brought awareness to the sport of female boxing and five years ago, Fox crystallized that focus with the establishment a Hall of Fame, centered solely on the sport.
The five boxers being honored represent headline fighters from the past two decades in the sport and represented an era when the best of the female boxers, more often than not, were matched with other top fighters in their weight class. The five inductees represent countries ranging from France, Puerto Rico and Canada and include two U.S. athlètes, an indication of the burgeoning international flavor into which the sport has evolved.
Myriam Lamare epitomized the noun “fighter.” She had one gear, “all out” and knew only one direction, “straight ahead.” It is not an overstatement to call her two bouts with Anne Sophie Mathis fights that served to ignite interest in the sport of female boxing in Europe. Lamare fought 177 rounds over her career and was in the ring with every top boxer in the sport, ranging from Mathis to Holm to Braekus.
Belinda Laracuente set the bar high for a “go anywhere, fight anyone” reputation. The Puerto Rican born boxer fought every good fighter in the sport, including Christy Martin, Sumya Anani and Holly Holm in this country and Myriam Lamare in France, Esther Phiri in Zambia, Duda Yankovich in Brazil, Jelena Mrdjenovich in Canada and Emiko Raika in Japan. It was said that Laracuente, dans le ring, had every move in the book along with some that were only in rare editions.
Jessica Rakoczy came out of Hamilton, Ontario et a suivi le modèle des autres intronisés en recherchant le classement des adversaires, combattre Layla McCarter, Jenifer Alcon et Jane Couch. Mais c'était elle 2007 perte d'Ann Marie Saccurato dont on parle souvent quand le sujet “meilleurs combats, déjà,” dans le sport. Pour Rakoczy, le combat était un exemple de livre de texte de l'adage du ring selon lequel même en cas de défaite, la “bons” font souvent ressortir le meilleur d'eux-mêmes et de leur sport.
Mary Jo Sanders a remporté vingt-cinq victoires sur une brillante carrière à la sortie de la ville de combat par excellence de Detroit. Elle a également eu une perte et un nul sur son record, à la fois contre le “visage” du sport, à l'époque, Holly Holm. Les combats Holm ont été les points forts d'une carrière pour un combattant très fondamentalement qualifié qui a remporté de grandes victoires contre Layla McCarter et Chevelle Hallback.
Vonda Ward might well be considered the best all-around female athlete ever to box professionally. She was an outstanding high school basketball player in Cleveland before matriculating to the University of Tennessee to play for legendary coach Pat Summitt. Dans le ring, Ward compiled an estimable 23-1 record, beating heavyweight fighters such as Carleton Ewell, Martha Salazar and Marsha Valley, losing only to highly regarded Ann Wolfe.
Julie Lederman grew up in a boxing household. En tant que tel, it is fair to assume she was probably exposed to the sport from a young age. Those two circumstances may have had something to do with her gravitating to the sport as a boxing judge. Those two circumstances have nothing to do with her becoming one of the top officials in the NYSAC. Similar to the fighters honored by the IWBHF, she is a very good boxing judge, not a very good female boxing judge; she is also not a very good judge with a well- known last name. She is a very good judge well worthy of induction into the IWBHF.
Belle Martell, who is honored with induction posthumously, was the first female referee licensed in California in April,1940. She continued, along with her husband, Art, to be a factor in boxing for the following two decades serving also as an active promoter in the state’s amateur ranks along with being a highly-sought after ring announcer.
Bernie McCoy began writing while in the Army, serving with the Armed Forces Press Service. Upon discharge, he alternated between advertising (copywriting for the Reynolds Tobacco and Coca-Cola accounts) and the newspaper business (sports writing in St. Louis, New Orleans and various New York suburban papers) before retiring from two decades as part of the Media department at Pepsi Cola. Subsequently, he has written extensively about Women’s boxing for a number of Internet sites, most notably, WBA. Founder and publisher, Sue Fox remarked “while always a staunch advocate and strong supporter of the sport, (McCoy) never pulled his punches in his writing.”
While the fifth class of the IWBHF may be slightly more diverse than previous groups, including three “non-participant” intronisés, this ground breaking enterprise continues to forge ahead with its focus and mission, to provide recognition to a sport and it’s integral figures, past and present, who have contributed to the progress thus far achieved and to the future growth of the sport and it’s athletes.
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