LFA 193: Bowers vs. Borisova is a mixed martial arts event promoted by Legacy Fighting Alliance and that will take place on September 20, 2024, at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Minnesota, United States.
Fight Card
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Women's Flyweight Cheyanne Bowers vs. Veronika Borisova Interim Women's Flyweight Championship
Bantamweight Mitchell McKee vs. Ashton Caniglia
Heavyweight Denzel Freeman vs. Steven Asplund
Flyweight Devon Lozej vs. Nate Smith
Featherweight Michael Blockhus vs. Roland Pruden
Featherweight Santos Verdinez vs. Felipe Martinez Donis
Heavyweight Alvin Hines vs. Taylor Escamilla
Preliminary Card (LFA Fight Network)
Middleweight Jackson McVey vs. Ben Fowler
Lightweight Kelton Sneve vs. Steve Collins
Featherweight Ansar Khamzaev vs. Abbas Abasov
Lightweight Coty Milhausen vs. Isaiah Mahto
Welterweight Clay Uddley vs. Danny Somers
Amateur bouts
Lightweight Mitchell Wilson vs. Kendall Sandifer
Lightweight Ryan Motley vs. Aaron Skipitaris
Heavyweight Ezayah Gomez Oropeza vs. Conor Hoy
Lightweight Isaiah Joans vs. Stephen Lesko
Background
LFA brings Interim Women’s Flyweight Championship to the Land of 10,000 Lakes at LFA 193!
LFA announced today that the promotion will return to the Land of 10,000 Lakes in September with a Championship Headliner at LFA 193. In the main event, the interim women’s flyweight title will be on the line. This will be the seventh women’s 125-pound title fight in LFA history. The event will also be the twenty-second LFA event to take place in the state of Minnesota. Twenty-one of these events have taken place at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, which is located just 25 minutes southwest of the Twin Cities.
LFA 193 takes place Friday, September 20th at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Minnesota. The main event will now feature an interim women’s flyweight title fight between top contenders Cheyanne Bowers and Veronika Borisova.
“We are excited to bring the Interim Women’s Flyweight Championship to Minnesota at LFA 193,” stated LFA CEO Soares. “The main event will crown an interim women’s flyweight champion in our oldest women’s division. LFA women’s flyweight champion Shannon Clark is set to compete on Dana White’s Contender Series on September 3rd. This created an interim title opportunity for Cheyanne Bowers and Veronika Borisova, who are the top two contenders in the division. If Clark wins and gets signed to the UFC, Bowers and Borisova will fight for the undisputed title. The Mystic Lake Casino Hotel is a world-class venue and we look forward to hosting another stacked fight card for our great fight fans in the Upper Midwest.”
Bowers (4-1) is a woman that will be coming home to Minnesota looking to add to the long list of athletic accomplishments she has racked up in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Bowers set multiple athletic records in her hometown of St. James, Minnesota, while attending St. James High School. The 29-year-old excelled in Cross-Country and Track & Field. She was a four-time MVP, two-year captain, four-time All-Conference, two-time Academic All-State, and held all team and individual records in cross country and pole vault upon graduation. These achievements earned her a scholarship to compete at the NCAA Division I level at South Dakota State University, where she competed on the Jackrabbits Cross-Country and Track & Field teams. Bowers’ athleticism, work ethic, and endurance has since translated seamlessly into MMA as she trains under Bruce Hoyer at Next Edge Academy in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Four of her five LFA bouts have taken place between Minnesota and South Dakota, but none have been more important as her next fight as she looks to win an LFA title in her home state.
Borisova (6-0) signed with the LFA earlier this year to much fanfare from her fans back home in Russia. The 23-year-old prospect grew up practicing Judo and by the time she was age 16, she was already training for a career in MMA. Borisova achieved the status of Master of Sport in Hand-To-Hand Combat, which is also a discipline where she became a World Cup champion. Then at the age of 19, just one week shy of her twentieth birthday, she began her pro MMA career. Borisova’s first five fights took place in her native Russia and neighboring Kazakhstan. It was in the latter of the two countries, where she became a regional MMA champion in 2023. That caught the attention of global promotions and the young Russian would soon take her talents stateside for her LFA debut. The top Russian prospect would make her promotional and American-soil debut earlier this summer against top Bosnian prospect Nejra Repp in the co-main event of LFA 186. It was an action-packed battle that saw Borisova keep her undefeated record intact. Now she looks to add an LFA title to her international trophy case.
