Invicta Fighting Championships returned to ReelWorks Denver in Denver, Colorado with its latest all-female event tonight. The Invicta FC 53 card was headlined by an atomweight championship bout between new titleholder Jillian “Lionheart” DeCoursey and challenger Rayanne Amanda dos Santos.
In the bantamweight co-feature, “Big Bad” Olga Rubin and “Grizzly” Claire Guthrie squared off in a battle between top contenders. Former atomweight champion Jéssica “The Queen” Correa Delboni met “Dynamite” Danielle Taylor at 115 pounds. MMARising.com has live play-by-play for the card.
UFC Middleweight Champion Israel “The Last Stylebender” Adesanya took a measure of revenge and reclaimed his title with a second-round knockout win on April 8th at UFC 287 in Miami, Florida. Adesanya stopped long-time rival Alex “Poatan” Pereira to take back the top spot at 185 pounds.