After nearly a month off, the Legacy Fighting Alliance is back with a
vengeance in a mile-high arena in Colorado.
LFA
116 goes down in the Dobson Arena in Vail, Colo., on Friday
night on UFC Fight Pass. Capping off the 13-fight billing is a
middleweight clash pitting Josh Fremd
(7-2) against Renato
Valente Alves (8-4). Of the 26 competitors to hit the scales –
including the first eight in the amateur ranks – only one fighter
missed weight: Dan Argueta
(138)*, who came in two pounds above the bantamweight limit. His
matchup with Rodney
Mondala will otherwise continue as planned, although Mondala
will receive a percentage of Argueta’s purse as a result.
Fremd will be looking to rebound from the first knockout loss of
his career, as he fell short to future Ultimate Fighting Championship signee Gregory
Rodrigues in May by knockout at the end of the middleweight
tournament. Three wins under the LFA banner led him into the
tournament and to its finals, with first-round finishes of Lamar Gosey,
Antonio
Jones and Bruno
Oliveira to his credit. Fremd hit the scales well below the
186-pound cap, weighing in at 184.4 pounds.
Valente’s promotional debut in April did not go his way, when
Mark
Martin defeated him by a razor-close split decision. The
Brazilian was able to bounce back just over two months later when
he topped Chibwikem
Onyenegecha by split verdict. Valente made his way to the
organization by choking out Abraham
Vaesau in Bellator MMA in 2019, but Bellator did not pick him up
at the time. After over 19 months on the shelf, Valente joined the
LFA. Valente countered his foe by weighing in at 185.8 ready pounds
while proudly sporting an Indigenous peoples’ headdress.
The main card of LFA
116 can be watched on UFC Fight Pass on Friday at 10 p.m. ET/7
p.m. PT. The six-bout preliminary portion of LFA 116 does not have
any publicly disclosed broadcast plans.
LFA 116 Weigh-in Results:
Josh
Fremd (184.4) vs. Renato
Valente Alves (185.8)
Dan
Argueta (138)* vs. Rodney
Mondala (135.2)
Michael
Stack (146) vs. Jackson
Filho (145.4)
Pauline
Macias (115) vs. Marnic Mann
(114.8)
Haris
Talundzic (170.6) vs. Brock Smith
(170)
Jacobi
Jones (155.8) vs. Logan
Paxton (155)
Llorrvic
Acevedo (125.4) vs. Josiah
Reyes (125.6)
Jena
Bishop (125.4) vs. Helen
Lucero (124.4)
Brittany
Camozzi (113.4) vs. Kelsey
Arnesen (114.8)
Jovan
Gasper (145.8) vs. Jota
Ninomiya (145.6)
Isaiah
Diggs (145) vs. Gabe
Parrott (144.4)
Luis
Gurule (135.4) vs. DeMarcus
Patterson (135.8)
David
Evenson (160.2) vs. Bryant
Ireland (165.2)
* Argueta missed weight by two pounds and has been fined a
percentage of his purse.