LAS VEGAS, Nevada — LFA CEO Ed Soares introduced right this moment that the promotion will return to the Land of 10,000 Lakes in September with a Championship Headliner at LFA 193. In the principle occasion, the interim ladies’s flyweight title will be on the road. This would be the seventh ladies’s 125-pound title battle in LFA historical past. The occasion may even be the twenty-second LFA occasion to happen within the state of Minnesota. Twenty-one of those occasions have taken place on the Mystic Lake On line casino Lodge, which is situated simply 25 minutes southwest of the Twin Cities.
LFA 193, introduced by Monster Vitality, takes place Friday, September twentieth on the Mystic Lake On line casino Lodge in Prior Lake, Minnesota. The principle occasion will now characteristic an interim ladies’s flyweight title battle between high contenders Cheyanne Bowers and Veronika Borisova. Your complete fundamental card shall be accessible worldwide on UFC FIGHT PASS® at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT.
“We’re excited to deliver the Interim Girls’s Flyweight Championship to Minnesota at LFA 193,” said Soares. “The principle occasion will crown an interim ladies’s flyweight champion in our oldest ladies’s division. LFA ladies’s flyweight champion Shannon Clark is ready to compete on Dana White’s Contender Collection on September third. This created an interim title alternative for Cheyanne Bowers and Veronika Borisova, who’re the highest two contenders within the division. If Clark wins and will get signed to the UFC, Bowers and Borisova will battle for the undisputed title. The Mystic Lake On line casino Lodge is a world-class venue and we sit up for internet hosting one other stacked battle card for our nice battle followers within the Higher Midwest.”
Tickets for LFA 193: Bowers vs. Borisova can be found for buy by means of Ticketmaster.com.
Bowers (4-1) is a lady that shall be coming house to Minnesota wanting so as to add to the lengthy listing of athletic accomplishments she has racked up within the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Bowers set a number of athletic information in her hometown of St. James, Minnesota, whereas attending St. James Excessive Faculty. The 29-year-old excelled in Cross-Nation and Observe & Subject. She was a four-time MVP, two-year captain, four-time All-Convention, two-time Educational All-State, and held all staff and particular person information in cross nation and pole vault upon commencement. These achievements earned her a scholarship to compete on the NCAA Division I degree at South Dakota State College, the place she competed on the Jackrabbits Cross-Nation and Observe & Subject groups. Bowers’ athleticism, work ethic, and endurance has since translated seamlessly into MMA as she trains underneath Bruce Hoyer at Subsequent Edge Academy in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 4 of her 5 LFA bouts have taken place between Minnesota and South Dakota, however none have been extra vital as her subsequent battle as she appears to win an LFA title in her house state.
Borisova (6-0) signed with the LFA earlier this 12 months to a lot fanfare from her followers again house in Russia. The 23-year-old prospect grew up training Judo and by the point she was age 16, she was already coaching for a profession in MMA. Borisova achieved the standing of Grasp of Sport in Hand-To-Hand Fight, which can also be a self-discipline the place she turned a World Cup champion. Then on the age of 19, only one week shy of her twentieth birthday, she started her professional MMA profession. Borisova’s first 5 fights came about in her native Russia and neighboring Kazakhstan. It was within the latter of the 2 nations, the place she turned a regional MMA champion in 2023. That caught the eye of world promotions and the younger Russian would quickly take her skills stateside for her LFA debut. The highest Russian prospect would make her promotional and American-soil debut earlier this summer season towards high Bosnian prospect Nejra Repp within the co-main occasion of LFA 186. It was an action-packed battle that noticed Borisova maintain her undefeated report intact. Now she appears so as to add an LFA title to her worldwide trophy case.
Foremost Card (Obtainable worldwide on UFC FIGHT PASS®):
Foremost Occasion | Interim Girls’s Flyweight Title Bout (125 lb)
Cheyanne Bowers (4-1) vs. Veronika Borisova (6-0)
Co-Foremost Occasion | Bantamweight Bout (135 lb)
Mitch McKee (6-0) vs. Ashton Caniglia (8-6)
Heavyweight Bout (265 lb)
Steven Asplund (3-0) vs. Denzel Freeman (4-1)
Flyweight Bout (125 lb)
Devon Lozej (6-2) vs. Nate Smith (8-4)
Featherweight Bout (145 lb)
Michael Blockhus (2-0) vs. Roland Pruden (2-0)
Catchweight Bout (140 lb)
Santos Verdinez (5-1) vs. Felipe Martinez Donis (5-2)
Heavyweight Bout (265 lb)
Alvin Hines (3-0) vs. Taylor Escamilla (2-1)
Preliminary Card (Featured bouts accessible on LFA FIGHT NETWORK™):
Middleweight Bout (185 lb)
Jackson McVey (4-0) vs. Ben Fowler (3-2)
Light-weight Bout (155 lb)
Kelton Sneve (3-0) vs. Steve Collins (2-0)
Featherweight Bout (145 lb)
Ansar Khamzaev (1-0) vs. Abbas Abasov (3-0)
Catchweight Bout (165 lb)
Coty Milhausen (3-3) vs. Isaiah Mahto (2-2)
Catchweight Bout (165 lb)
Clay Uddley (1-1-1) vs. Danny Somers (1-0)
Light-weight Bout (155 lb)
Kendall Sandifer (2-0) vs. Mitchell Wilson (5-1)
Light-weight Bout (155 lb)
Ryan Motley (3-1) vs. Aaron Skipitaris (3-5)
Heavyweight Bout (265 lb)
Ezayah Gomez (2-0) vs. Conor Hoy (3-2)
Catchweight Bout (150 lb)
Isaiah Joans (1-1) vs. Stephen Lesko (2-3)
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