LFA 189: Kuziutina vs. Ellen Results

Legacy Combating Alliance (LFA) has persistently been one of the crucial standard proving grounds for UFC hopefuls, and is about to return for its 189th card on Friday evening stay from the Seneca Allegany Resort & On line casino in Salamanca, New York.

The New York MMA followers can be handled to an LFA girls’s interim strawweight championship battle between defending champion Natasha Kuziutina and Bruna Ellen.

Combat followers can catch LFA 189 streaming stay on UFC Combat Move, starting at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT for the principle card.

LFA Ladies’s Interim Strawweight Championship — Kuziutina vs. Ellen

A co-main occasion battle that might have seen Renato Valente tackle Chermen Kobesov at 185 kilos was scrapped within the lead as much as Friday evening. Subsequently, the followers in New York can be handled to only one Russia vs. Brazil conflict, thought the Kuziutina vs. Ellen itself was rescheduled from June following a Kuziutina sickness late in battle week.

Kuziutina has a novel background as a adorned Russian judoka, having competed in three Summer time Olympic Video games (2012, 2016, 2020). She earned a bronze medal in 2016, and following the 2020 video games transitioned to a profession in MMA. After debuting with a win in Jorge Masvidal’s Gamebred Boxing promotion, Kuziutina took on maybe just a little an excessive amount of too quickly with Invicta FC’s Fatima Kline, who has since gone on to a profession within the UFC. Since then, nevertheless, Kuziutina has ripped off 4 straight wins with two first-round armbar finishes, and received the interim title in opposition to Giovanna Canuto earlier this 12 months.

Bruna Ellen, nevertheless, can be a troublesome out for the previous judo practitioner. Ellen previously competed in Bellator, the place she fought the “who’s who” of the Bellator girls’s flyweight division: former Invicta FC title challenger Kristina Williams, and Bellator champions Julianna Velasquez, and Ilima-Lei Macfarlane. She went 5-4 within the promotion, and left for LFA shortly earlier than the corporate’s merger with PFL. Friday will mark her first battle exterior of Bellator in 9 years, and whereas her expertise could possibly be a decider in opposition to Kuziutina, she has additionally proven a propensity to be managed by grapplers.

Per LFA CEO Ed Soares, the winner of Friday evening’s primary occasion may have an opportunity to unify the belts in opposition to present champion Rose Conceição, who is about to look on Dana White’s Contender Collection later this summer time.

Remainder of the Card

Friday’ co-main occasion can be contested between James Gonzalez and Kyrgyzstani prospect Ilyor Bakhtiyar Uulu. Uulu is an aggressive fighter who’s on the lookout for his first win stateside. He does personal a win over Charleston Pou in Battle MMA, however the outcome was overturned from an early Pou knockout following an enchantment from the Uulu camp. He additionally missed weight for that battle, which was contested at featherweight. Time will inform if Uulu can reinvent himself at light-weight, the place he’ll battle Gonzalez, an eighteen-fight veteran, on Friday.

One of many extra intriguing fights of the principle card will happen at bantamweight, with Ashiek Ajim taking over Micaias Ureña. Ajim will not be solely an alum of Dana White’s Contender Collection, however a former CES bantamweight champion. Most of his fights are received or misplaced on the toes, and it’s affordable for that development to proceed in opposition to Ureña, a Dominican prospect who has competed on a handful of Titan FC’s co-promoted playing cards with Combating Drive. Heavyweight prospects Matt Adams and Alex Marro are additionally scheduled to compete on the principle card.

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