Breakdown Legacy FC 60

               

                Legacy Fighting Championship is headed to Hinckley, MN for LFC 60. Heavyweights will slug it out in the Main Event, October 7^th, when 6’5” Tyler East faces finisher of twenty-five fights, Brian Heden.

               

Tyler The Beast East is 15-5 and has finished thirteen of those wins (11 by KO/TKO). East is the second ranked Pro HW in the SouthWest (according to tapology.com) and has a long 78” reach. After going 1-2 in 2014 East took some time off from the sport, before returning 6/11/16 at FFC 25 in Springfield, Ma to win by a first round (2:30) Kimura, in his last fight.

               

Veteran of over forty fights, Brian Heden went 2-0 in 2015. He won a Unanimous Decision over Mike Whitehead (12/5/15) and submitted Adam Kope in the first round (3:25) in May by rear-naked-choke. Thirty-one year old, Heden has KO/TKOs in eighteen of his twenty-nine wins. In his last fight (5/21/16) Heden avenged a 2014 first round (4:17), TKO loss to 73-20 Travis Wiuff, by stopping Wiuff in the opening 0:33 by TKO. Heden is the fifth ranked Pro HW in the US MidWest (tapology.com).

               

In the Welterweight Division, 16-9 Jos Eichelberger takes on 25-10 Dakota Cochrane in the Co-Main event. Fargo North Dakota’s Eichelberger is on a five fight win streak with four stoppages (3TKO, 1 Sub). The 5’11” Eichelberger is a finisher, with early stoppage wins in fourteen of his sixteen victories (9 by KO/TKO).

Thirty year old Cochrane of Omaha, NE is an active fighter, he’s gone 7-1 in the past fourteen months (3Subs, 2TKO). He has stopped seventeen of his twenty-five wins (10 Subs). This is Cochrane’s first time competing for LFC, but the thirty-five fight veteran has competed for: Titan FC, VictoryFC, RFA, Bellator and others.

In the Featherweight Division Nate takes on Nick. No the Diaz Brothers aren’t fighting each other at 145lbs, 4-1 Nate Togbah Richardson faces 12-5 Nick Compton. Nate The Natural Richardson has sprinkled his five pro fights over the last four years (4-1) and has three finishes (2 subs) to date. This is his third fight with LFC, he won a Split Decision at LFC 51 (2/5/15) over Kuchiong Kuchiong in his last and beat Courtney Buck with a third round (3:43) KO at LFC 43.

Thirty-four year old, Nick Compton has finished ten of his twelve wins (8 Subs). Fighting out of Maple Grove MN, Compton is just 2-4 in fights that go to the judge’s scorecards. Compton fights at both Lightweight and Featherweight and is the number one ranked Pro LW in Minnesota (tapology.com). A September ninth UD loss to Jason Fischer halted a three fight win streak with two first round subs. In April (4/29/16) Compton stopped Yusheng Wang by Arm Bar.  

In a fight between a pair of aging journeymen, 26-6 Indalecio Tat Romero takes on forty-one year old, Isaiah Pitts. Mean Bean Romero has stopped all but one of his twenty-six wins early, fourteen by KO/TKO. If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard of Romero until now, it may be because some of those wins are against opponents with sub-five hundred records, but a win is a win and Romero has plenty. The thirty-six year old is currently riding a two fight win streak, both TKO’s.

Wausau, Wisconsin’s Isaiah Pitts is 6-1, yet he already has fought a rematch. He is coming off his second career first round TKO win over RT Hicks. This one coming in the fight’s first minute (0:49) 12/15/15. Pitts, like his opponent, holds numerous wins over fighters with losing records, but brings tenacity to each meeting.

LFC 60 Main Card airs live on AXS TV