Brandon Royval Looking to Test Whether Casey Kenney is Afraid to Get Hit at LFA 53
Looking back over his 2018 so far, flyweight Brandon Royval has admittedly had kind of a crazy year, but it has been a successful year at the same time.
After winning his first bout of the year against Jerome Rivera at LFA 39 in May via injury, Royval was stuck waiting for a fight until he got a last-minute replacement opportunity and defeated Charles Johnson by unanimous decision at LFA 48 in September.
“I think I’ve done awesome in all my fights so far,” Royval told MMAWeekly.com. “Against Jerome, his arm broke early in the fight. 17 seconds in I dropped him with a punch. I had my timing fairly well. He was an old LFA title contender, but I think even if his arm didn’t break I was going to walk right through him.
“Then in my last fight it was pretty much just a striking clinic (on Johnson). I kind of emptied the gas tank a little too much in the first round, but it was pretty much a just a clinic I ran on him with the exception of that third round.”
Royval (8-3) will look to cap off an undefeated 2018 when he faces Casey Kenney (9-1-1) at LFA 53 this Friday in Phoenix, Arizona, in a 125-pound interim championship main event.
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