Legacy Fighting Alliance will return to the Lone Star State with a
heavyweight championship fight on July 30.
The promotion recently announced Vernon
Lewis will square off against Thomas
Petersen for the vacant belt in the LFA
113 headliner at Bell County Expo Center in Belton, Texas. The
card will be held in front of a live audience and airs on UFC Fight
Pass at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. It will mark the 20th time LFA has
traveled to Texas.
“I am excited to bring the LFA heavyweight title to Texas at LFA
113,” stated Soares. “Vernon Lewis and Thomas Petersen are two of
the most successful heavyweights in LFA history and are always
looking for the knockout. They say everything is bigger in Texas
and this fight is no different. On Friday, July 30 at the Bell
County Expo Center, the winner will become the third heavyweight
champion in LFA history.”
A Fort Worth, Texas-based police officer, Lewis has the most
heavyweight wins in LFA heavyweight history. The 37-year-old Relson
Gracie Waco representative is victorious in his last four
promotional appearances, including a first-round TKO of Austen Lane
in his last outing at LFA 83 in March 2020.
Petersen, meanwhile, is 4-0 in his burgeoning MMA career, with all
of his victories coming via first-round knockout or technical
knockout. The Minnesota native is 3-0 in LFA and is coming off a
stoppage of Odell
Pantin at LFA 104 on April 16.