Budo Sento Championship 8: Linares vs. Calzada is an upcoming mixed martial arts event scheduled for May 20, 2022 at the Gimnasio Juan de la Barra in Mexico City, Mexico.
Fight Card
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Derian Calzada vs. Freddy Emiliano Linares 145 lbs Featherweight Championship
Rosaldo vs. Almeida
Brian Mengeli vs. Victor de Paula 265 lbs
Leonel Rojas vs. Romario Orozco 185 lbs
Giovanny Zamora vs. Daniel Villa 125 lbs
Salcido vs. Ramirez
Botello vs. Raya
Guilherme Antunes vs. Alexis Rosaldo 145 lbs
Background
7 MMA fights, 1 championship for the 145 lb. belt. Freddy Linares (Ecuador) VS Derian Calzada (Mexico). 7 Muay Thai fights, stellar fight for the 70 kg championship. : José Ruelas (Mexico) VS Axl "Demonio" Magallán (Mexico). 1 Super Fight in Submission Combat. Plus 5 Amateur MMA fights.
The Ecuadorian Emiliano Linares, considered the best featherweight of the moment in the country, will defend his title of the 145-pound division of mixed martial arts (MMA) of the Budo Sento Championship league against the Mexican Derian Calzada.
Before facing Calzada, the 26-year-old from Guayaquil was linked to a potential fight on Dana White's Contender Series in Las Vegas.
Linares captured the 145-pound Budo Sento Championship on October 8, 2021, by winning a five-round unanimous decision over local Eddy Alexis Rosaldo at Budo Sento vol. 4.
The title with which he won corresponds to the grand finale of the Budo Sento Vol. 3 men's grand prix, whose initial rounds were held last July, the occasion on which he obtained his first two victories.
After becoming the first martial artist to lift a featherweight belt in the history of the Budo Sento Championship, Linares' team set out to earn a place in the Contender Series to make the leap to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where Ecuador currently has bantamweight Marlon Chito Vera and welterweight Michael Morales.
Linares, with seven fights won and one lost in professional MMA, is confident that he has the skills to beat jiujitsu player Calzada, who successfully defended his 155-pound title in submission on March 4. His record so far is 4-0 in MMA.
