LFA brings the Interim
#LightHeavyweight Championship to @Caragua_Oficial,#SãoPaulo,
#Brazil at
#LFA159! 🏆Rodolfo “Trator” Bellato🆚Acácio “Pequeno” Dos Santos
TOMORROW!#CIDECasaBranca#Caraguatatuba,
#SaoPaulo,
#Brazil#MMA#LFANation@UFCFightPass
pic.twitter.com/fqvYCo0uyh— LFA (@LFAfighting)
Could 26, 2023
The
Legacy Preventing Alliance returns to Brazil for
LFA 159, which is headlined by an interim gentle heavyweight
title struggle.
Preventing for the interim belt in the primary occasion shall be gentle
heavyweight prospects Rodolfo
Bellato and Acacio
dos Santos. Each headliners efficiently made weight, as
Bellato (9-2) checked in at 204.6 kilos, whereas dos Santos weighed
202 kilos. Three fighters didn’t make the contracted weight for
their respective fights, although, as Luiz
Cesar da Silva Junior, Argemiro
Delmandes and Rafaela
Silva all got here in obese.
Bellato comes into the title struggle having received 4 of his final 5
fights. His lone setback got here throughout a Dana White’s Contender
Sequence occasion, the place he was knocked out by Vitor
Petrino. In the meantime, dos Santos (15-5) has received two of his final
three, having additionally fallen quick within the Contender Sequence within the kind
of a choice loss to Anton
Turkalj. Each males will look to show they’re value one other
look.
The LFA 159 essential card will air dwell on UFC Battle Move at 9 p.m.
ET/6 p.m. PT on Saturday.
LFA 159 Weigh-in Outcomes:
Rodolfo
Bellato (204.6) vs. Acacio
dos Santos (202)
Anderson Ferreira de Souza Santos (155.6) vs. Luiz
Cesar da Silva Junior (159)*
Geraldo Coelho de Lima Neto (170.8) vs. Argemiro
Delmandes (173)**
Lucas
Rocha (124.6) vs. Matheus
da Silva Severino (124.8)
Vinicius
Pires (136) vs. Kaua
Fernandes Pinheiro (136)
Hugo
Cunha (258) vs. Fernando
Batista (256)
Marcos
Degli (126) vs. Hugo Paiva
(126)
Isaias
Simoes (135) vs. Joao
Paulo Santos (132.8)
Manuel
Robson Minoto (155.4) vs. Juan
Pablo Vieira (155.2)
Levi
Rodrigues (204.6) vs. Jose
Carlos Lima (203.2)
Rafaela
Silva (117)*** vs. Aieza
Ramos Bertolso (114.2)
* Junior missed weight by three kilos and has been fined a
share of his purse.** Delmandes missed weight by two kilos and has been fined a
share of his purse.*** Silva missed weight by one pound and has been fined a
share of her purse.
