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| Kansas City, Kansas at Memorial Hall @Talita_MMA(c)
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— Invicta FC (@InvictaFights)
May 28, 2024
It’s been a while, but Invicta Fighting Championships is coming back
in full swing this summer.
On Tuesday, organizational chief Shannon Knapp announced on the
“MMA Today” show on the MMA on SiriusXM radio channel that Invicta
would be staging its first event of the year in June. The
women’s-only league last ran a show in October 2023, and rumors had
spread that Invicta was in jeopardy. According to a press release
on Friday, a full seven-fight offering will be held at the Memorial
Hall in Kansas City, Kansas. The broadcast arrangements have not
yet been made public, but Invicta later posted
that this would mean the beginning of a deal that would allow for
events every six weeks.
Invicta FC 55 on June 28 will be headlined by a bantamweight
championship battle between Talita
Bernardo (10-4) and Olga Rubin
(9-3), with Bernardo looking to make the first defense of her
throne after winning it in January 2023. The Ultimate Fighting Championship vet left the
promotion after losing three of four appearances, but since
departing, has rattled off four straight wins including three under
the Invicta banner. Her foe Rubin came up short by split decision
to Taneisha
Tennant in 2022 for the title, and a pair of wins over Serena
DeJesus and Claire
Guthrie propelled her into another championship
opportunity.
The co-main attraction will see the promotional return of Kay Hansen
(7-6) against relative Colombian neophyte Sayury
Canon (3-0). Hansen saw her four-fight stint in the UFC come to
an end in 2022 when she dropped three straight decisions, and she
will return to the company where she made her pro debut. Fellow
strawweight Canon turned professional before Hansen, winning once
in 2016 and taking over five years off before her return.
The remainder of the lineup will see a few newcomers from Japan
interspersed against Invicta vets and MMA newcomers. Top-ranked
Saori
Oshima (14-4) will be lent from Jewels to face Andressa
Romero (6-4-1) in an atomweight affair; Taylor
Guardado (4-2) and Yoko
Higashi (8-4) will both drop back down to bantamweight in a
collision of former Professional Fighters League fighters;
Elisandra Ferreira de Oliveira (6-2) tries to make it three for
three under the Invicta lights as she takes on the well-traveled
Katie
Saull (6-6) at atomweight; former amateur standouts come to
blows when former GAMMA competitor Zoe Nowicki
(0-0) battles ex-IMMAF champ Josiane
Oliveira (0-0) in a double debut flyweight tilt; the card opens
with Scorpion Fighting System upstart Fallon
Johnson (0-0) turning pro in a flyweight contest against
one-time Combate Global victor Violeta
Mendoza (1-0).