[Event] LFA 203 - Satybaldiev vs. Soares - Mar 6

Dent · **Posted:** Tue Mar 04, 2025 8:07 am

LFA 203: Satybaldiev vs. Soares is an upcoming mixed martial arts event promoted by Legacy Fighting Alliance that will take place on March 6, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Fight Card

Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Light Heavyweight Uran Satybaldiev (c) vs. Leon Soares Light Heavyweight Championship
Bantamweight Allan Begosso vs. Micaias Ureña
Bantamweight Stav Koren vs. Chase Whitmer
Women's Bantamweight Beatriz Mesquita vs. Hope Chase
Heavyweight Josh Hokit vs. Ezekiel Latu
Middleweight Sharaf Davlatmurodov vs. Christiano Frohlich

Preliminary Card (LFA Fight Network)

Bantamweight Azizbek Temirov vs. Daniel Araújo Figueiredo
Flyweight Braden Aupuni Pagaoa vs. Jose Sandoval
Bantamweight Ezra Elliott vs. Jose Vasquez-Lopez
Bantamweight Cameron Sandoval vs. Victor Santos

Background

March Madness for Combat Sports enthusiasts in Las Vegas!

LFA CEO Ed Soares announced that ten fights will take place at LFA 203 next month, when the promotion hosts its sophomore event in the “Fight Capital of the World”. The event will feature a fight card stacked with a world title fight, international stars, and top local talent. LFA 203 will be the second LFA event to take place in the state of Nevada and will kick off an action-packed fight week in Las Vegas.

LFA 203 takes place Thursday, March 6th following the conclusion of UFC Fight Pass Invitational 10 (FPI 10), which will be held at the UFC Apex earlier in the day. The following day, Friday, March 7th, Power Slap returns to Fontainebleau Las Vegas with Power Slap 12. The epic Las Vegas fight week concludes on Saturday, March 8th with UFC 313 at the T-Mobile Arena.

LFA 203: Satybaldiev vs. Soares, presented by Monster Energy, takes place Thursday, March 6th at the Pearl Theater inside the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. The main event will feature a Light-Heavyweight Title Bout when champion Uran “Gorilla” Satybaldiev defends his title for the first time against top contender Leon “Ogro” Soares.

“We are excited to bring a World Championship headliner to Las Vegas at LFA 203,” stated Soares. “Uran Satybaldiev is the reigning LFA light-heavyweight world champion and the first person from Kyrgyzstan to win an LFA crown. He will return to defend his title against top Brazilian prospect and professional kickboxer Leon Soares. The event will also feature the return of “The BJJ Lady GOAT” Bia Mesquita, who transitioned to MMA seamlessly after enjoying a Hall of Fame jiu-jitsu career. She will fight 20x Karate world champion Hope Chase. This is a monster fight week in Las Vegas for combat sports, MMA, and particularly the 205-pound division as former LFA star Alex Pereira will also defend his UFC light-heavyweight world title just two nights later in the main event of UFC 313.”

LFA 203 will feature a total of ten fights including a highly-anticipated women’s bantamweight showdown between “The BJJ Lady GOAT” Bia Mesquita and “Hurricane” Hope Chase. They will be in action prior to the previously announced LFA Light-Heavyweight World Championship.

Mesquita (3-0) returns to the LFA Octagon after making the most highly-anticipated transition to MMA of any prospect in 2024. The Brazilian phenom began training Jiu-Jitsu at the age of 5. By the time she was 10, she had won the Brazilian National Junior Championships, three State Championships, and several other major tournaments. After receiving her black belt from Jiu-Jitsu legend Leticia Ribeiro fourteen years ago, Mesquita would embark on a black belt career that would earn her the nickname “BJJ Lady GOAT (Greatest Of All Time)” as she is now a member of the Guinness World Records and International Jiu-Jitsu Federation (IBJJF) Hall of Fame. She accomplished this by becoming the only person to win 10 gold medals, which is the record for the most IBJJF World Championship titles at the black belt level.

Mesquita made the switch to MMA last year with her LFA and American soil debut coming at LFA 194 in Niagara Falls, New York. The Jiu-Jitsu sensation showed off her world-class grappling chops by submitting Shannel Butler via Rear Naked Choke in the first round of their bout. Mesquita then made a quick turnaround by competing in the co-main event of the LFA’s year-end event at LFA 198. This was the first time Mesquita was able to compete in MMA in front of her students and teammates in Southern California. Most notably, LFA great and UFC star Mackenzie Dern sat cageside to support her friend and fellow Jiu-Jitsu wunderkind. Mesquita would submit Brazilian veteran Fernanda Araujo to give her three wins by Rear Naked Choke in her first three MMA bouts. The fans in turn voted her the 2024 LFA Fans’ Choice Awards: Female Fighter of the Year.

Mesquita will now face a fellow LFA veteran in Chase (4-2), who possesses twice the MMA experience of Mesquita. In fact, Chase will be back in action nearly 8 years after winning her amateur MMA debut. Known as “Hurricane Hope”, Chase is one of the most decorated Karateka to ever compete in Women’s MMA. The Karate black belt has won 20 world championships in Karate, which gives her a dangerous and elusive striking style. Along with her Karate credentials, she holds a 5-1 record for USA Boxing. After going a perfect 4-0 and winning two titles as an amateur, Chase turned pro at the end of 2018. She now trains at Indio Dojo in the Greater Pittsburgh area and brings a tough Midwestern mindset to her fights. Training under UFC veteran Danillo “Indio” Villefort, Chase is also a Jiu-Jitsu purple belt with half of her pro wins coming via submission.

The event will mark the promotion's second visit to Las Vegas and first since LFA 173 in December 2023.

[Event] LFA 203 - Satybaldiev vs. Soares - Mar 6

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