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The Legacy Fighting Alliance crowned a new heavyweight champion in the LFA 224 main event.
Fighting for the vacant title were Matthew Adams and Arslan Bilalov, who sported a flawless 5-0 professional record coming in. Adams (5-2) gave up a takedown early, which allowed Bilalov to unload with punches. The Russian stayed in control by getting into mount position and bloodying “Bad” with elbows. Bilalov pivoted to a rear-naked choke in order to win the belt and advance to 6-0 as a pro. The tap came at 4:47 of the first round.
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The co-main event saw welterweights Josiah Harrell and Bekmyrza Dosmatov battle for a likely title shot. In a wild fight full of scrambles and hard punches being thrown, it was the grueling pace of the undefeated Harrell (11-0) that proved to be too much. An exhausted Dosmatov (13-3) gave up mount in the final round and eventually succumbed to punches from “Muscle Hamster” at the 3:28 mark after his corner waved off the fight.
In the lone main card women’s mixed martial arts bout, Giovanna Canuto faced fellow strawweight Janaina Silva. A heavy betting favorite, Canuto (7-1) had to work for her victory over Silva (5-3), who was the busier fighter on the feet. However, in the third round, Canuto was able to lock in a face crank for the tap at 2:38.
In featherweight action, Shaheen Santana took on the undefeated Taner Trembley. Surprisingly, it was the grappling of Trembley (6-0) that wound up impressing as he locked in a tight guillotine choke on Santana (9-4). While “Shazam” gave a valiant effort, he eventually tapped at 3:32 of Round 1.
Lightweight prospect Canon Swanson needed less than a round to put Jimmy Washington to sleep. After securing a takedown, Swanson (5-1-1) secured a tight arm-triangle choke. Washington (2-1) was too tough to tap out, but a technical submission was called at 2:59 after he went unconscious.
In the main card opening bout, Abbas Abasov went up against Andy Waters in a fight between young featherweights. The striking of Avasov (5-1) wound up being the difference as he was able to knock out Waters (4-3) with a nasty head kick and follow-up punches. The stoppage came at 3:39 of the second round.
LFA 224 Prelim Results:
In preliminary action, Tyree Overton took a hard-fought unanimous decision over Pedro Trujillo with three 29-28 scorecards in his favor; Ezayah Gomez Oropeza used a kimura to submit Braden Peterson at 1:02 of Round 1; Noah Gasho overwhelmed David McKinney with a flurry of punches to get a TKO win at 2:27 of the second round; Mitchell Wilson submitted Sedric Richard with an arm-triangle choke at 1:20 of Round 1; McCoy Tekautz needed just 21 seconds to put away Hykeem Green via KO; Xavier Judge outworked Alex Martin to get three 30-26 scorecards in his favor; Cadin Vowels took an unanimous decision victory over fellow middleweight Armani Webster (29-28, 30-27, 30-26); and Daysi Perez submitted Jessie Hays with a rear-naked choke at 1:26 of Round 3.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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