The Championship Fighting Alliance announces it’s ninth event for January 19 entitled “Night of Champions”. The card will take place at the Bank United Center in Coral Gables, FL with title fights in the Flyweight, Featherweight, Lightweight and Welterweight categories.
The main card title fights are below:
- Main Event Lightweight Title Fight: Luis “Baboon” Palomino (20-7; 4-0 CFA) vs. Luiz “Buscape” Firmino (15-6; 2-0 CFA)
- Co-Main Event Flyweight Title Fight: Alexis “The Exorcist” Vila (11-2; 0-0 CFA) vs. Josh “The Gremlin” Sampo (8-2; 0-0 CFA)
- Welterweight Title Fight: Valdir “BBMonster” Araujo (11-3; 3-0 CFA) vs. Marcelo “Grilo” Alfaya (14-6; 1-0 CFA)
- Interim Featherweight Title Fight: Victor “Showtime” Delgado (6-0; 3-0 CFA) vs. Sean Soriano (6-0; 1-0 CFA)
The preliminary card shapes up like this:
- Patrick “Lights Out” Cenoble (9-1; 3-1 CFA) vs. Elvin Brito (5-1)
- Pablo “The Hurricane” Alfonso (7-5; 1-1 CFA) vs. Shah Bobonis (15-7)
- Haender “Cubita” Rodriguez (6-6; 0-1 CFA) vs. Tulio Quintanilla (5-3; 0-1 CFA)
- Yosdenis “Pink Panther” Cedeno (6-2; 0-2 CFA) vs. Ryan “No Love” DeRocher (4-4; 0-1 CFA)
- Billy Garris (1-0; 0-0 CFA) vs. Carl “The Doctor” Darbouze (1-0; 0-0 CFA)
- Carlos Rodriguez (0-0) vs. Jean Bellefleur (0-0)
- Alex Poulson (2-0; 1-0 CFA) vs. Jose “Fresh Prince” Caceres (3-2; 0-2 CFA)
- Mike “Dragonhulk” Trujillo (4-2; 2-1 CFA) vs. Trent McCown (5-1; 2-1 CFA)Michael Lilly (1-0 CFA) vs. Socrates Pierre (3-1; 0-0 CFA)
Tickets start at $25.00 and can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com or at www.cfafights.com. For VIP table seating please contact the CFA offices at (305) 520-5574.
[…] “CFA 9: Night of Champions” will be the promotion’s first fight card of eight planned for this year. The card includes four title matches, introduce CFA’s first women’s MMA division tournament and feature commentator Pat Miletich. CFA 9 will be held Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Bank United Center in Coral Gables, Fla. […]