HOUSTON, TX, April 7, 2013 – It was quite the eventful night at Legacy Amateur Series 11 this past Saturday night at the Houston Arena Theatre with the show featuring several newsworthy performances and other tidbits worthy of note.
For one, the organization marked a landmark moment as far as attendance goes for their amateur shows go with 2,700+ showing up to catch Legacy Amateur Series 11 live. The show was also the first LAM event to be covered by Texas Fight Night – meaning all 13 bouts will air to over 45 million homes on Azteca, Fight network Canada, Pursuit Channel and Time Warner Cable sports channel in the coming weeks.
As far as the fights go, they delivered from top to bottom with only three out of thirteen reaching the judges’ scorecards.
In the main event of the evening, Kolton Englund achieved what has to be record in scoring his third championship win in three straight fights with three different organizations. This time around it was Metro Fight Club’s Luis Lara who fell to Englund in what ended up being a highly-competitive three round war as expected that came down to Kolton securing top position and pounding out his opponent in the third.
Also scoring a third round TKO win in his own title fight was Lara’s Metro Fight Club teammate Adrian Yanez. He was originally scheduled to take on GB North Houston’s Kody Williams but a staph infection resulted in BJJ Revolution’s Quentin Kiper getting the late opportunity to step into the featherweight title fight instead. The late change didn’t rattle Yanez however as he proved well-prepared and ready for war in earning the belt and several stitches along the way.
In other notable action…
Silverback Fight Club’s Jacob Silva picked up a disputed split decision over GB Texas’ Roberto Sanchez to end his amateur career with an impressive 8-3 record and 4 title wins to his name.
Jake Heffernan picked up a first-round submission (armn-triangle) over Eric Charalambous to keep Alex Morono’s GB North Houston MMA team undefeated in 2013 with a 3-0 record so far following their impressive 13-2 campaign last year.
Charles Sheppard upset highly-touted MMA newcomer and junior full-contact karate circuit vet Sage Northcutt with a vicious late-round haymaker that earns him TXMMA Knockout of the Night honors.
Last but not least here in our mentions is another younger in Jordan Carmona of 4OZ Fight Club debuting impressively with a first-triangle choke over Sijin Kurian.
See below for the rest of the fight results from April 6th in Houston.
Legacy Amateur Series 11 Quick Results
Main Event – Kolton England over Luis Lara by TKO, RD3
Co-Main Event – Adrian Yanez over Quentin Kiper by TKO, RD3
11 – Jacob Silva over Roberto Sanchez by split decision
10 – Jake Heffernan over Eric Charalambous by submission (arm-triangle), RD1
9 – Charles Sheppard over Sage Northcutt by KO, RD1
8 – David Acosta over John Ballah by KO, RD1
7 – Jason Langellier over Jeff Spangler by unanimous decision
6 – Rene Saucedo over Angel Zamora by unanimous decision
5 – Jordan Carmona over Sijin Kurian by submission (triangle choke), RD1
4 – Micah Williams over Jason Carter by submission (armbar), RD2
3 – Edward Longoria over Steven Vera by KO, RD1
2 – James Morales over Donald Davis by TKO, RD3
1 – Perry Scott over EJ Turner by TKO, RD2
Legacy Amateur Series 11 Photo Gallery
