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February 7, 2026
The
Legacy Fighting Alliance has a new middleweight champion after
Joseph
Kropschot pulled off an upset against David
Allakhverdiev.
The
LFA 226 main event saw the previously undefeated
Allakhverdiev’s title on the line against Kropschot, who was on a
three-fight win streak heading into the championship bout. The
striking of Allakhverdiev (7-1) did damage early, but it was the
grappling of Kropschot (8-3) that ultimately made the difference.
In the second round, Kropschot took his opponent’s back and
sunk in a rear-naked choke to win the title. The tap officially
came at 3:24 of Round 2.
The co-main event featured the night’s two most veteran fighters as
lightweights, Dedrek
Sanders and Nikolay
Kiosse, who had a combined 29 fights on their résumés going
into tonight. It was a wild back-and-forth affair with Kiosse
coming close to getting a rear-naked choke in the second round.
However, Sanders (11-5) had the better cardio and was able to rock
Kiosse (10-4-1) and then followed up with
a series of brutal knees to get the stoppage 28 seconds into
the final frame.
In the main card’s lone women’s mixed martial arts bout, Mackenzie
Stiller faced Kendrar McIntyre. Stillere (6-1) made
surprisingly quick work of McIntyre (3-3) as she outclassed her
opponent on the ground. After just 1:48, Stiller locked in a
spectacular scarf hold armlock to get the submission win.
Heavyweights Benjamin
Wunder and Charlie
Cleveland delivered the hard-hitting action that fans expected.
Cleveland (5-1) made quick work of Wunder (3-2), who couldn’t deal
with the power of “The Reaper.” After scoring a knockdown,
Cleveland
clubbed his opponent until the referee stepped in at 1:03 of
the first round.
Middleweight prospect Travon
Eller failed his latest test against the more experienced
Zayne
Havener. While “Notorious GGG” looked to be in control, Havener
(4-2) threatened with a kimura before transitioning to a triangle
choke. Havener
officially locked in the choke and forced Eller (3-1) to tap at
3:33 of the first round.
The main card opener saw flyweights Bryce
Woerner and Randy
Rivera-Santiago clash. The striking of the undefeated Woerner
(3-0) proved to be too much for Rivera-Santiago (1-2), who crumbled
under the power. The “Ragin Cajun”
punched his way to a TKO victory at 3:36 of Round 3.
LFA 226 Prelim Results:
Johnathan
Waid submitted Lane Roe with
a slick armbar at 1:02 of Round 1; Alexander
Schenk used his superior grappling to submit Carter
Beekman with
a rear-naked choke at 4:50 of Round 2; Blake
Mitchell quickly finished debuting heavyweight Nathan
George with
a knee to the body and follow-up punches at 2:15 of the first
round; Briven
Sullivan choked out Cody Noel
with a triangle choke at 4:51 of Round 3; Shamar
Perez outworked Trevor
Grice over three rounds to pick up a split decision win;
Drake
Patterson battered Josh Ward to
pick up a TKO victory after 2:41 of action; and Garret Gean used a
triangle choke to submit Randy
Shores Jr. in just 1:15.