UFC veteran Michinori
Tanaka will square off against Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist
Ary
Farias in the Legacy Fighting Alliance 138 headliner on Aug.
5.
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The promotion announced the bout on Monday. LFA 138 takes place at
the Grand Hotel & Resort in Shawnee, Okla., and airs on UFC Fight
Pass at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. The card also includes a bantamweight
clash between Askar Askar
and Diego Silva and a featherweight tilt pitting Elijah
Johns against Masuto
Kawana.
Japan’s Tanaka enters the matchup on a three-fight winning streak
that includes a unanimous decision triumph over Ricardo
Dias at LFA 117 this past November — his first appearance in
more than two years. A former Pacific Xtreme Combat champion,
Tanaka went 2-3 during his UFC tenure, posting wins over Joe Soto and
Roland
Delorme.
A seven-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion, Farais owns an
11-3 professional mark in MMA, with seven victories coming by way
of submission. The X-Gym representative is 1-1 in LFA, including a
56-second KO loss to Marcos
Breno in his last outing in July 2021.