LAS VEGAS, Nevada —LFA CEO Ed Soares introduced that the promotion will return to the Brazilian coastal metropolis of Caraguatatuba in Could with a Championship Doubleheader at LFA 159. This would be the third LFA occasion to be held on a Saturday and will probably be the tenth LFA occasion to happen in Brazil after the promotion’s worldwide enlargement started in the summertime of 2021.
LFA 159: Polastri vs. Conceição takes place Saturday, Could twenty seventh on the CIDE Casa Branca Sports activities Advanced in Caraguatatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. The primary occasion will characteristic a girls’s strawweight title struggle when champion Julia “Psyco” Polastri defends her title towards prime undefeated challenger Rose Conceição. The co-main occasion will characteristic an interim light-heavyweight title struggle between prime prospects Rodolfo “Trator” Bellato and Acácio “Pequeno” Dos Santos. All the foremost card can be obtainable worldwide on UFC FIGHT PASS® at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT.
“We’re excited to carry two championship fights to the southeast coast of Brazil at LFA 159,” acknowledged Soares. “The primary occasion will characteristic the primary title protection of the LFA girls’s strawweight champion Julia Polastri. She is going to face prime undefeated prospect and fellow LFA standout Rose Conceição. Then within the co-main occasion, we’ll crown an interim light-heavyweight champion when prime prospects Rodolfo Bellato and Acácio Dos Santos struggle for the interim light-heavyweight title. The winner will then get an opportunity to unify the title towards present champion Bruno Lopes later this yr.”
Polastri (11-3) returns to the LFA for the third time on the lookout for a 3rd win, however this time she’s going to arrive along with her championship belt in tow. The proud Fluminense gained the title in January by defeating prime undefeated Argentinian prospect Brenda Göttig with a primary spherical Arm-Triangle Choke within the co-main occasion of LFA 151 in Cajamar. Now the newly topped champion, affectionately often known as “Psyco”, heads to the coast of São Paulo for her first title protection and first LFA foremost occasion. A win will see Polastri be a part of elite firm as the one three girls to efficiently defend their LFA titles had been all signed by the UFC. These girls are Andrea Lee, Sabina Mazo, and Jaqueline Amorim. The 25-year-old may also, as soon as once more, be seeking to acquire bragging rights. After profitable a global rivalry towards an Argentinian opponent in her final struggle, she is now set to face a rival from the north of her nation in a basic southern Brazil vs. northern Brazil showdown.
Conceição (6-0) is a prime undefeated prospect from the Natal, Rio Grande do Norte within the northeast of Brazil. The Norte-Rio-Grandense gained her LFA debut in September when the promotion visited her area of the nation at LFA 143. Conceição defeated Pernambuco fan favourite Mayara Thays with a powerful Unanimous Determination. The win stored her undefeated report intact and earned her a nominee for LFA Followers’ Selection Awards: Feminine Fighter of the 12 months. Now the 26-year-old has her sights set on a lady who was additionally nominated for a similar award. Extra importantly, it’ll write the following chapter within the nation’s north vs. south rivalry. This pleasant rivalry has produced most of the nation’s biggest fights and in flip the 2 areas have grow to be two of Brazil’s largest hotbeds for producing MMA expertise. The stakes are excessive and Conceição is able to problem for the title within the first LFA occasion in Brazil headlined by girls.
The co-main occasion of LFA 159 will characteristic an interim light-heavyweight title struggle between two of Brazil’s prime prospects as Bellato (9-2) and Dos Santos (15-5) vie to grow to be the LFA’s seventh light-heavyweight champion. This interim alternative grew to become obtainable to each males because the promotion await the return of its sitting champion Bruno Lopes. The undefeated champion is predicted to struggle the winner of Bellato vs. Dos Santos in a title unification bout later this yr. Bellato and Dos Santos have taken related paths over the previous 12 months. After selecting up wins early in 2022, each males had been invited to compete on Dana White’s Contender Collection final summer season. Now they want to get again on the UFC boss’ radar. That started earlier this yr with each prospects incomes dominant TKO wins. Now it continues as each males have their sights set on putting LFA gold at LFA 159.
At present Introduced Combat Card:
Essential Occasion | Ladies’s Strawweight Title Bout (115 lb): Julia Polastri (11-3) vs. Rose Conceição (6-0)
Co-Essential Occasion | Interim Mild-Heavyweight Title Bout (205 lb): Rodolfo Bellato (9-2) vs. Acácio Dos Santos (15-5)
Bantamweight Bout (135 lb): Fernando Laurenço (16-3) vs. Marciley Alves (11-3)
Welterweight Bout (170 lb): Geraldo Neto (16-6) vs. Argemiro Delmandes (15-8)
Flyweight Bout (125 lb): Lucas Rocha (15-1) vs. Matheus Da Silva (11-3)
Heavyweight Bout (265 lb): Hugo Cunha (6-1) vs. Fernando Batista (11-7)
Bantamweight Bout (135 lb): Vinicius Pires (6-1) vs. Kaua Fernandes (6-1)
Featherweight Bout (145 lb): Gabriel Silva (9-3) vs. Lerryan Douglas (8-4)
Flyweight Bout (125 lb): Marcos Degli (8-3) vs. Hugo Paiva (6-1)
Bantamweight Bout (135 lb): Isaias Simões (8-5) vs. João Paulo Santos (11-3)
Ladies’s Strawweight Bout (115 lb): Rafaela Silva (0-0) vs. Aieza Bertolso (0-0)
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