It’s not typically that you just get nice MMA information on a Tuesday. This Tuesday after an prolonged weekend as a result of Memorial Day vacation inside the US introduced with it a chunk of reports that MMA followers and fighters have been most happy to listen to.
Over the weekend, girls’s MMA promotion Invicta Preventing Championships (Invicta FC) took to social media to publish an image with the caption “Invicta Preventing Championships: She rises”. The caption is a reference to the biblical story of the phoenix rising forward of the resurrection on Easter Sunday.
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— Invicta FC (@InvictaFights) Might 26, 2024
On Tuesday, Invicta FC took to X (Twitter) to announce that Shannon Knapp, Invicta FC President, can be making an look on Sirius XM’s Battle Nation channel throughout MMA In the present day for an interview with hosts Din Thomas and RJ Clifford. On the prime of the two pm ET/ 11 am PT hour, Knapp broke the information followers have been ready for since late October.
Invicta FC Again in Kansas Metropolis on June 28
One month from at the moment, the ladies’s MMA promotion shall be making its return to dwell motion in Kansas Metropolis, KS dwell from Memorial Corridor for Invicta FC 55 on June 28. The number of Kansas Metropolis for the cardboard is in homage to Memorial Corridor holding Invicta FC 1 by means of Invicta FC 4 between April of 2012 and January of 2013. Knapp introduced that there shall be a battle for the Invicta FC Bantamweight Championship in the principle occasion of the night.
Present Invicta FC Bantamweight Champion and UFC alumnae Talita Bernardo (10-4 MMA, 3-0 Invicta) shall be making her first stroll to the cage since January of 2023 subsequent month towards challenger and Bellator alum Olga Rubin (9-3 MMA, 2-1 Invicta) within the headliner. As with all Invicta FC championship fights, this one shall be an marketed most of 5 rounds at 5 minutes per spherical.
🚨BREAKING NOW 🚨 on @MMAonSiriusXM’s MMA In the present day w/ @RJcliffordMMA & Din Thomas#InvictaFC55 shall be on JUNE twenty eighth when @InvictaFights returns HOME to Kansas Metropolis
Headline by Olga Rubin vs Talita Bernardo for the bantamweight title. pic.twitter.com/AYEC36LxLA
— Invicta FC (@InvictaFights) Might 28, 2024
This brings an finish to what shall be an eight-month layoff for the promotion. Previous to the June 28 occasion, the final time Invicta placed on a present, Boston was the host metropolis for Invicta FC 54 on Oct. 27, 2023, the Friday earlier than Halloween. That autumn night time, towards the backdrop of the primary sport of the World Collection, Danni McCormack (8-2 MMA, 3-0 Invicta) defended her strawweight title with a fourth-round technical submission (rear-naked choke) towards Karolina Wojcik (11-5 MMA, 2-2 Invicta) in the principle occasion.
Subsequent to this information, Knapp talked about {that a} full card shall be revealed Friday, the identical day that passes for the occasion shall be on the market.
New Media Deal for Invicta
Whereas Shannon Knapp couldn’t go into specifics about it, she did point out that Invicta’s landed a brand new media rights deal. Previously, Invicta playing cards have been obtainable on linear TV inside the US on AXS TV and digitally on the promotion’s official YouTube channel worldwide.
“We have been fine-tuning the machine to be organized the way in which we wished to maneuver ahead and that distribution deal,” Knapp mentioned on Sirius XM. “And now we’re able to roll.”
With the return to dwell motion set for June 28, Invicta is concentrating on holding dwell occasions each six weeks. The promotion solely held 4 exhibits within the entirety of 2023.
“When Invicta shouldn’t be going, there’s a massive gap within the trade,” Knapp talked about. “There’s all the time one thing happening even when it’s not public data. We’ve been hunkered down discovering an excellent distribution deal that shall be a gamechanger for us.”
The Summer time of Aggressive Violence is Wanting Good
Summertime is all the time a busy three months of motion for any fight sports activities promotion, not simply these in MMA. Invicta’s return is the newest piece of fine information that followers of aggressive violence have acquired forward of the summer season solstice.
Invicta FC 55 is scheduled to happen on the night time of June 28. One night time later, the main focus of the MMA world shifts to T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas for UFC 303. In a nontitle foremost occasion on the month of June’s ultimate Saturday, “The Infamous” Conor McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) collides with former Bellator MMA Light-weight Champion Michael Chandler (23-8 MMA, 2-3 UFC) at welterweight.
In late July, Netflix would be the streaming residence of Mike Tyson‘s return to boxing towards Jake Paul, earlier than being adopted up per week later by the UFC’s return to the UK for UFC 304 in Manchester. The July 27 card is co-headlined by a rematch between defending interim champion Tom Aspinall (14-3 MMA, 7-1 UFC) and Curtis Blaydes (18-4, 1 NC MMA, 13-4, 1 NC UFC) for the UFC Interim Heavyweight Championship and headlined by the competition for the UFC Welterweight Championship matching present titleholder Leon Edwards (22-3 MMA, 14-2 UFC) and Belal Muhammad (23-3, 1 NC MMA, 14-3, 1 NC UFC).
Add to it the persevering with Bellator Champions Collection and the summer season of 2024 in MMA appears to be a enjoyable one.
Closing Ideas
Tuesday’s announcement that Invicta FC will return in a month’s time is an superior one. As somebody who’s been following Invicta for years, the promotion has all the time placed on nice playing cards.
Right here’s to a vivid future for Invicta. Might the promotion thrive for years to come back.
