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Highlights and Future Stars from LXF 22 and Beyond
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5/24/2025
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00:00
Royce Butler and Corbin Allen, that round three KO, the finish he got,
00:05
a great battle by him.
00:06
You had Tony Cortez with a great battle there in the first round,
00:10
getting the finish with the Anaconda choke,
00:12
and Luciano Ramos with a second round, of course, submission.
00:16
Just a great job by these guys.
00:18
Talk to us a little bit about Lights Out of 22, especially Royce Butler,
00:21
and what do you see from him and some of the other fighters that were on that card?
00:25
Yeah, man, it's been great.
00:27
As you guys can tell, man, this thing is just getting bigger and better, more exciting.
00:32
A lot of those guys you're talking about are just up-and-coming superstars,
00:35
especially as they get insane.
00:39
And that's the biggest thing for us, right, because we have these guys with so much talent
00:43
that just need the eyeballs for people to get out there because that's what this game is about.
00:48
You got some tremendous talent, especially in California,
00:50
and more importantly, in Southern California, where we've been having a lot of our fights.
00:54
So, yeah, LXF 22 was big.
00:58
LXF, we followed the game with LXF 23.
01:00
It was massive.
01:00
And then the big card we just had at Long Beach last Saturday, LXF 24.
01:06
Yeah, and one of the guys that we just mentioned on that card, of course, Ramos,
01:08
then he got seen by you, got the win of LXF 22, then came back in 23,
01:13
got his chance at the champ against Jimenez.
01:16
Didn't work out for him as Jimenez did what he needed to do.
01:18
Got the unanimous decision.
01:19
We talked to him after that fight.
01:20
I mean, this is a guy, of course, who is still doing great things, a champion for you.
01:25
How has he, have you seen the first couple months of him, what he's done,
01:29
and what are you expecting, the big things from him in 2025?
01:32
Yeah, man.
01:33
And speaking of Luciano Ramos, you know, coming down, that's, you know,
01:37
Nick and Nate Diaz's camp out there.
01:38
So he, you know, come down and put on a show.
01:40
And he's a vet, too.
01:42
I thought it was going to be much more lopsided than that, you know,
01:45
coming into this fight, looking at Arnold Jimenez.
01:47
But you talk about Arnold Jimenez, you know, he got a couple more fights
01:50
than him before he really, really gets on the map.
01:53
You know, if he keeps on the streak that he's on right now,
01:54
he's going to be out there, and who knows what might happen after that.
01:58
And then we, you know, like, again, we followed up with a massive,
02:00
massive card after that again as well.
02:02
Another guy who was, you know, getting eyeballs on him at LXF 23, of course,
02:06
was Vaughn Simmons at the co-main event, the heavyweight.
02:09
You know, he's, we talked to him, the things that he had very early in his career,
02:12
still 3-0.
02:13
But, you know, good decision, unanimous decision win against Beatrice there.
02:17
What are you seeing from him and some of the other heavyweights?
02:19
Of course, Blake Troop is your heavyweight champ right now.
02:21
But a guy like Vaughn Simmons making a name for himself, you know,
02:23
and a guy that we'll touch on, and just saw last week, Terrell Fortune.
02:27
You know, stacked heavyweight division teams coming through LXF right now
02:30
at this period.
02:32
Big time, man.
02:33
Even before talking about Simmons, Beatrice, you know, Beatrice, he,
02:37
it's funny, you look at him, and he's not, if you see him in the street,
02:40
he doesn't look like a fighter, and he gets in there, and this dude is so damn mobile.
02:43
He's explosive.
02:44
His movement, his lateral movement is great.
02:47
He's a hell of a striker.
02:48
He can take a lot of damage.
02:52
And then talking about Simmons, man, coming up, I think he's up from San Diego.
02:56
We got some heavyweights coming in there, and I don't know if, because I'm a big dude,
03:00
you know, we're getting more inquiries for heavyweights coming in there.
03:04
But I think just in general right now in the MMA landscape, there needs to be more heavyweights.
03:10
And I said that, you know, over and over again, it needs to be more heavyweights.
03:13
I think your next heavyweight champ is going to be from the SEC, somebody that played at Alabama,
03:18
or Florida State.
03:19
You know, a lot of these guys are going to, at some point, start transitioning over from football,
03:24
whether it's through college or through the pros.
03:27
We will start getting more of those guys.
03:29
But Beatrice, man, I know he took a loss because Simmons is a dog, but, you know, he put up a great show.
03:36
And we're looking to have Simmons back on the card again.
03:38
He came up from San Diego.
03:39
We got the card June 14th.
03:41
We'll talk about him in a minute in San Diego, Casino Palma.
03:44
But we're just following up.
03:46
Fight after fight.
03:48
We're having so many fighters reach out right now from all over the country, man.
03:51
We're struggling on just, you know, because this is the problem we're having,
03:55
which is a good problem to have.
03:56
You don't want to make the night too long, right?
03:58
I mean, we can line up 15, 16, 17 fights if we want to and go from 4 p.m. to 10.30 at night.
04:03
You know, we can have a six-hour, seven-hour show, which is a very, very long show.
04:07
But we're trying to get the best of the best from there.
04:09
And when you're starting to make the noise that we're making right now in this business,
04:13
you know, everybody's coming over and working with us.
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