[Event] LFA 200 - Johns vs. Douglas - Jan 25

Dent · **Posted:** Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:43 pm

LFA 200: Johns vs. Douglas is an upcoming mixed martial arts event promoted by Legacy Fighting Alliance that will take place on January 25, 2025, at the Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, Minnesota, United States.

Fight Card

Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Featherweight Elijah Johns (c) vs. Lerryan Douglas (ic) Featherweight Championship
Women's Flyweight Shannon Clark (c) vs. Cheyanne Bowers (ic) Women's Flyweight Championship
Welterweight Vanilton Antunes (c) vs. Shamidkhan Magomedov (ic) Welterweight Championship
Welterweight Joey Hart vs. Chris Mixan
Flyweight Devon Lozej vs. Enrique Pacheco Parra
Heavyweight Alvin Hines vs. Matt Adams
Bantamweight Santos Verdinez vs. Ethyn Ewing

Preliminary Card (LFA Fight Network)

Heavyweight Steven Asplund vs. Hammer Morton
Bantamweight Jeremy Strobel Jr. vs. Shad Walters
Lightweight Kelton Sneve vs. Steve Collins
Lightweight Canon Swanson vs. Jake Bower
Featherweight Felipe Martinez Donis vs. Alex Coover

Amateur Card

Heavyweight Ezayah Gomez Oropeza vs. Jackson Ross
Middleweight Mac Kukowski vs. Brett Wittmann
Lightweight Mitchell Wilson vs. Brok Hopwood

Background

The event will feature the three titles fight unification bout:

LFA Featherweight Championship bout between current champion Elijah Johns and interim champion Lerryan Douglas.
LFA Women's Flyweight Championship bout between current champion Shannon Clark and interim champion Cheyanne Bowers.
LFA Welterweight Championship bout between current champion Vanilton Antunes and interim champion Shamidkhan Magomedov.

LFA announced today that the promotion will celebrate its historic bicentennial event in the Land of 10,000 Lakes in January with a Championship Tripleheader at LFA 200. Each of the three world title fights will unify championships between current LFA champions and interim champions. LFA 200 will be the ninth LFA event to be held on a Saturday. The event will also be the twenty-third LFA event to take place in the state of Minnesota. Twenty-two of these events have taken place at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, which is located just 25 minutes southwest of the Twin Cities.

LFA 200, takes place Saturday, January 25th at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Minnesota. The main event will feature a featherweight title unification bout when champion Elijah “Baby” Johns faces interim champion Lerryan “The Gunslinger” Douglas. The co-main event will showcase a women’s flyweight title unification bout when champion Shannon “MMA Barbie” Clark meets interim champion Cheyanne “Chey” Bowers. The feature fight will see a welterweight title unification bout when champion Vanilto Antunes battles interim champion Shamidkhan Magomedov.

“We are excited to bring three Title Unification Fights to Minnesota to commemorate LFA 200,” stated LFA CEO Ed Soares. “In our 8 years as a promotion, we have only had three LFA title unification bouts, where we have a current champion and interim champion fight to unify the title. On Saturday, January 25th, that number will double to six, when we bring three of these incredible bouts to the Upper Midwest. These three bouts will unify our featherweight, women’s flyweight, and welterweight world titles. The Mystic Lake Casino Hotel is a world-class entertainment destination that has hosted more LFA events than any venue in the world. This made it the perfect location to host our historic bicentennial event.”

Johns (10-2) is the younger brother of former LFA bantamweight champion and current UFC star Miles Johns. The 28-year-old prospect followed his brother from their native Kansas to Dallas, Texas where the two developed into world-class prospects and LFA champions at Fortis MMA. The younger Johns brother, affectionately known as “Baby Johns”, captured his first world title earlier this year in the promotion that he grew up in. That journey began all the way back at LFA 1, where he made his amateur MMA debut, and it culminated with him winning the title in what was a record-tying tenth professional fight for the LFA. Johns earned the title shot by dominating U23 World Wrestling Championships gold medalist Masuto Kawana at LFA 138. He then captured gold to continue the Johns brothers’ winning ways and championship pedigree by defeating Alfred Walker at LFA 176. Now the only man to compete in every year of LFA’s existence defends his title for the first time. The bout will give him the record for the most professional fights for the LFA (11), and if he wins, he will tie Victor Altamirano for the most professional wins in LFA history (9).

Douglas (11-5) is a Brazilian that has taken the LFA featherweight division by storm over the past 14 months. In that time, the 29-year-old has obliterated three of the division’s top prospects in Ivan Tena, Nathan Ghareeb, and Javier Reyes with his ungodly punching power. The human highlight reel captured the interim title this past summer by dispatching Reyes and he now looks to unify the crown. Douglas hails from Paranaguá, Paraná in southern Brazil. This is a city in the same Brazilian state that has produced MMA legends Anderson Silva, Wanderlei Silva, Maurício “Shogun Rua, and Cris Cyborg. Douglas would later meet Cyborg upon moving to the United States and now calls the women’s MMA icon a friend and training partner. The man known as “The Gunslinger” also has a head coach in the UFC Hall of Fame. That would be the legendary Cub Swanson, who has already produced two other LFA greats Dan Argueta and Danny Silva, who are currently fighting in the UFC. Douglas trains with Swanson, Argueta, Silva, and LFA contender Richie Miranda at Bloodline Combat Sports in Costa Mesa, California.

Clark (5-1) signed with the LFA as the top women’s flyweight prospect from Canada and wasted little time showing the world why in her LFA debut in October of 2023 at LFA 170. The 32-year-old bullied the highly-touted Bosnian prospect Nejra Repp en route to a Unanimous Decision victory. The win earned the former Canadian college soccer standout a shot at the vacant LFA women’s flyweight world title this past February at LFA 177. That is when the Canadian powerhouse showed the world she is more than just an elite athlete with punching power. That night, the woman known as “MMA Barbie” fought a young Brazilian prospect in Thaiany Lopes, who was a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu and nearly a decade younger. Lopes, like Clark, also signed with the LFA as a regional champion in her home country. None of that would matter as the Canadian striker flipped the script and submitted the grappling ace with a vicious Bulldog Choke midway through the second round. The choke put Lopes to sleep and went viral online. More importantly, it made Clark the new LFA women’s flyweight world champion.

Bowers (5-1) is a woman that will return 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 30-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. Five of her six pro bouts have taken place between Minnesota and South Dakota, but none have been more important than her next fight as she looks to unify the LFA title in her home state.

Antunes (16-7) is a man that earned his shot at the LFA welterweight title the good old-fashioned way. This happened when the Muay Thai stylist left zero doubt about who the new “King of Rio” was by emerging victorious in a winner takes all double title fight in December of 2022. This happened when two of Brazil’s top regional promotions The Conqueror and Favela Kombat squared off in the state of Rio de Janeiro with the winner of the main event taking home both promotions’ titles. The Tata Fight Team product defeated UFC and TUF veteran Wendell Oliveira via TKO. The end came when a doctor called a stop to things after two rounds and Antunes walked away with both The Conqueror and Favela Kombat welterweight titles. That achievement earned the 29-year-old Fluminense a shot at the LFA welterweight world champion Geraldo Neto in the main event of LFA 179. The event took place at Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, which was home to the 2016 Summer Olympics. Antunes made the most of the opportunity by quickly dethroning the champion in the first round with a brilliant display of striking.

Magomedov (9-1) is a world-class wrestler from the famed Dagestan region of Russia and boasts some of the most impressive grappling credentials in the division. The 30-year-old is a Master of Sport in Wrestling, he is a two-time Russian National Champion in Wrestling, and he is a World MMA Association amateur champion. He also owns four wins inside the LFA Octagon, which have all been one-sided. The first came against LFA veteran Kohlman Scribner via Rear Naked Choke in the first round after moving up to middleweight for their bout at LFA 155. Six months later, Magaomedov dominated top Uzbekistani prospect Bakhromjon Mashrapov at LFA 167. Magomedov captured the LFA interim welterweight title this past February by finishing fan favorite Devin Smyth in the first round with a brutal onslaught of punches. He then defended his interim crown by scoring a highlight reel walk-off knockout win against two-time Olympic wrestler Alfonso Leyva in October at LFA 194.

[Event] LFA 200 - Johns vs. Douglas - Jan 25

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