A night of MMA action was enjoyed by a very vocal crowd of fight fans as Legacy Fighting Championship brought the first ever professional fight card to the Allen Events Center on Friday night.
In the night's main event Will Campuzano captured the inaugural Legacy Fighting Championship flyweight title with a second round TKO over Jimmy Flick. Early on it was Flick who established dominance by using his patented wrestling acumen to stuff the attacks of Campuzano. However, Campuzano was able to rebound in the second round and after flooring Flick with a hard knee strike he was able to close out the fight behind some hard punches from the mount. The official time of he stoppage was at the 0:26 mark round two.
in the evening's co-main event Matt Hobar and Steven Peterson engaged in a battle for the ages trading leather and submission attempts throughout the three round contest. With tangible animosity heavy in the air both fighters wasted no time in ramping up the action from the opening bell. It was a closely contested battle but the fight may have been swayed in the third round when Peterson was docked a point for an illegal kick while Hobar was down. In the end it was Gobar who walked away with a majority decision behind scores of 29-27, 29-27,and 28-28.
Chas Skelly used his exemplary wrestling ability to control and dominate a game Rey Trujillo. Trujillo fought valiantly throughout the contest but was unable to keep Skelly off of him. in the end it was the unanswered punches from the mount by Skelly that eventually prompted the referee to call a halt to the fight at the end of the third round earning Skelly theTKO victory.
Ryan Benoit wasted little time in stopping Joseph Sandoval with a blistering boxing attack seconds into the opening round.after dropping Sandoval with a straight right Benoit pounced and unleashed a barrage of unanswered punches to prompt the referee stoppage. The official time of the stoppage was 1:02 in round one.
Eli Tamez was awarded a TKO victory in a somewhat anticlimactic fashion when Torres was unable to continue with the fight after separating his shoulder in the opening round. Torres injured the shoulder during some heavy grappling against Tamez in the opening round and his corner was forced to throw in the towel at the start of the second round.
Derrick Krantz was able to withstand the early charges of Charles Byrd before taking the fight to the ground and securing a rear naked choke submission to win the bout. The official time of the submission victory was 3:02 in the opening round.
Darrion Caldwell scored an impressive first round TKO stoppage of Quaint Kempf via ground and pound. The official time of the stoppage was 1:00 in the opening round.
Klayton Mai overcame some dangerous submission attempts from a very game Alex Russ to pull out a standing guillotine to earn the first round submission. The official time of the submission was 3:31in the opening round.
Russell Brewer used a suffocating wrestling game plan to earn a unanimous decision victory over Aaron Culpepper. Scores were 30-27, 30-27, 29-28 in favor of Brewer.
Evan Thompson forced Bobby Moore tap minutes into their contest after raining down some sharp elbows to the head of the mounted Moore. Moore's tap came at the 2:10 mark of the first round.
Sidney Cawdrey was able to weather the early onslaught of knees and elbows thrown by Joseph Salas to gut out a unanimous decision. The official scores were 29-28, 29-28, and 29-28.
Alfredo Leija battered and bruised a game but out-gunned Alex Madrid in route to a second round TKO stoppage due to strikes. The official time of the stoppage was 1:32 in the second round.
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