Legacy Fighting Alliance hosts a Fight Night
Red Trunks: Stan Dorsainville (Greenacres, Florida, USA)
White Trunks: Dan Holt (Chorlton, Manchester, England)
LFA, otherwise known as Legacy Fighting Alliance, made its way to the WNY region for its 4th time in two years. Three of the past fights were held at Seneca Niagara resort and casino. LFA found a new host for fight fans, both local and far, in this round of LFA 233. The Fight card was held at Seneca Allegheny Event Center for a change of scenery on 05/22/26, which drew in an astounding packed house, looking to watch two gladiators go to battle in the octagon cage, no bigger than 30ft.
The energy in the atmosphere was electric and unforgettable. The crowd filled with frantic boos, yays, yelling and screaming. Everyone’s eyes were glued to the cage because even just one look away could cause one to miss some of best mixed martial arts the WNY area has ever seen.
This isn’t your glorious, but standard stand up and duke it out with just punches, feints and jabs. It’s more than that, now add kicks, elbows, knees and wrestling style takedowns. The octogen cage that might as well be the Roman Colosseum, which forces a test of will, strength and courage like no other. Welcome to the wild world of mixed martial arts. Between 4 preliminary Bouts of up-and-coming fighters who fought for 3, 5-minute rounds and an unforgettable main card that featured 5 bouts in itself.
The Crowd witnessed it all in Friday night’s line up. Everything from first time fights, too men looking to redeem their own losing records then more excitingly we got a battle of the undefeated, along with 2 big title defenses on the night
Starting at:
Prelim 155: Clayton Lee (1-0) > Easton Edmond (0-1) decision by KO/TKO, PUNCH
Prelim 160: Allen Holloway (3-0) > Jake Hixenbaugh (3-6) decision by SUBMISSION, BRABO CHOKE
Prelim 155: Kevin Carrier (5-2) > Zaki Mohsin (2-3) decision by SUBMISSION GUILLOTINE CHOKE
Prelim 145: Soufiane Kabil (4-0) > Eli Evangelista (4-2) decision by UNANIMOUS DECISION
Main card 155: Ednilson Santos (14-7-1) > Shaheen Santana (9-7) decision by UNANIMOUS DECISION
Main card 160: Stan Dorsainville (5-0) > Dan Holt (4-1) decision by KO/TKO, PUNCHES FROM BACK MOUNT
Main card 145: Roman Kurashvili (9-6) > Ezequiel Peralta (6-1) decision by DISQUALIFICATION, ILLEGAL KNEE
Co-Main Event 155 for the LFA Lightweight Championship: Richie Miranda (13-1) > Robert Varricchio (8-2) decision by SUBMISSION, BULLDOG CHOKE
Main Event 170 for the LFA Welterweight Championship: Jonathan Piersma (12-3) > Diego Bianchini (10-3) Decision by KO/TKO, GROUND AND POUND
Rochester native Jonathan Piersma ups his record to 13-2 after successfully defending his LFA Welterweight Championship with a ground and pound KO/TKO in the Main Event of the evening
Rather you are a local fight fan, who follows the scene of mixed martial arts or combat sports for years, or you are a person who is new to the sport of MMA and now your interest is peaked, put Legacy Fighting Alliance, otherwise known as LFA in your bucket lists of up-and-coming events next time it is in town. LFA will return to the Niagara Seneca Casino sometime in the future, but the date has not been set.