It didn't take too long for former WEC and UFC featherweight Leonard Garcia to find a new promotion. The Texas native has signed with Texas-based Legacy Fighting Championships, a signing the company confirmed yesterday via Twitter:

It's official! Leonard Garcia v. Rey Trujillo July 19th at Legacy FC 21 on Houston. Tickets at cagetix.com

— Legacy Fighting (@legacyfighting) May 11, 2013

Garcia (...

That didn't take long.

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight Leonard Garcia has found a new home with Legacy Fighting Championships (LFC), as on Friday (May 10, 2013) "Bad Boy" signed a multi-fight contract with the organization.

Garcia is expected to debut against Rey Trujillo at Legacy FC 21 on July 19, 2013 in Houston, Texas.

News of the signing was first announced on th...

Things went south in a hurry for Leonard Garcia.

After taking a split decision win over Nam Phan back in 2010, "Bad Boy" went on to lose his next five fights, which eventually resulted in his release from UFC. For some fans, the cut was a long time coming, as Garcia hasn't won a fight convincingly since defeating Jens Pulver by technical knockout in November of 2008.

Hoping to revive his career...

It's been a few weeks since we last saw Leonard Garcia in the octagon, and after several years with the UFC and WEC under the Zuffa umbrella, we won't be seeing him there again, at least for the immediate future. As is the case with most fighters that are in the good graces of the company, if he strings together some good wins outside the organization, he has an open invitation to come back. With...

ONE Fighting Championships announced Wednesday three additional preliminary bouts to complete their upcoming 'ONE FC 9: Rise to Power' event. ONE FC 9 takes place May 31 from Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, Philippines. An online pay-per-view will be available for the main card while the prelims stream free.

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UFC president Dana White was asked at the media scrum following the UFC 159 post-fight press conference about the fate of Featherweight Leonard Garcia who dropped a unanimous decision to Cody McKenzie on the Facebook prelims of the UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen card.

"I don't want to say it, but it's not looking good," White told the assembled press.

"He got beat," White said. "He even got beat sta...

Cody McKenzie vs. Leonard Garcia was penciled in by many fans as the third fight on the Facebook card, until Nick Catone vs. James Head got cancelled, then it was the second. It was a fight to mock the senses of fight fans, two of the UFC's lowest caliber fighters facing off in a battle to save their jobs with the promotion. To the surprise of many McKenzie came out and showed that while he may n...

I've certainly written a lot already about tonight's UFC 159 main event between Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen. As someone who loves to find ways that the underdog could come through and pick up the win, I can not look at this fight and see any way for Sonnen to win. That happens sometimes in sports, but in the UFC it's rare that that happens and happens with an undeserving challenger in anything oth...

The final Facebook-streamed bout at UFC 159 comes in the featherweight division, as Leonard Garcia (15-10-1 MMA, 2-6 UFC) and Cody McKenzie (13-3 MMA, 2-3 UFC) fight in a must-win matchup. As you can see, neither one of them has a very good UFC record and are already fortunate to still be here.

These two were set to meet at UFC 155, but McKenzie was injured and replaced by Max Holloway. You can ...

Over the course of 30 professional MMA fights, you would guess that Leonard Garcia has taken harder shots and been in worse situations, but when asked about the walk he made from the Octagon to his locker room after losing a controversial decision to Max Holloway at UFC 155 last December, he called that trek “the scariest” he’s made.“It’s the worst feeling in the world,” said Garcia. “It feels li...

If there's been a better UFC or even MMA show in 2013 than Saturday's UFC on Fox 7, I can't think of it. If there's going to be a better one later this year, it's going to have to be pretty special. Tonight saw a record-tying number of knockouts, a sensational fight card from top to bottom, surprising upsets, an entire fight team that appears to be improving before our very eyes and so much more....

If there's been a better UFC or even MMA show in 2013 than Saturday's UFC on Fox 7, I can't think of it. If there's going to be a better one later this year, it's going to have to be pretty special. Tonight saw a record-tying number of knockouts, a sensational fight card from top to bottom, surprising upsets, an entire fight team that appears to be improving before our very eyes and so much more....

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to network television for the seventh time this Saturday night (April 20, 2013) with UFC on Fox 7: "Henderson vs. Melendez," which goes down from "The Shark Tank" in San Jose, California.

A Lightweight mixed martial arts (MMA) championship match up will assume the lead role at the event as reigning champion Benson Henderson puts his title on the line ...

It's often cliche, but I suppose not exactly false. The ladies often do steal the show. In a night where the main and co-main events were actual bouts of significance but involved only men, it turns out the women not only put on the most entertaining bout but also did so in what could be the most important bout of the evening.

Still, there was something to love no matter the preference. Faber vs...

Most of us know by now that the UFC is in the midst of a big fighter purge. Dana White has stated that the organization will need to cut up to 100 fighters in the next few months, which makes every fight that much more important for the contestants. With that in mind, similar to the past few events, I'm going to go through the list of fighters scheduled for The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale and...

Preview all the action from this weekend's UFC show - The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale live from Mandalay Bay featuring Faber vs. Jorgensen, Miesha Tate, the TUF finals, and much more.

The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale opens their facebook fracas with a trio of solid featherweight action at Mandalay Bay Events Center with a mixture of veterens and prospects.

Cole Miller (18-7) vs. Bart Palaszewski (...

The Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale opens their facebook fracas with a trio of solid featherweight action at Mandalay Bay Events Center with a mixture of veterens and prospects.

Cole Miller (18-7) vs. Bart Palaszewski (36-16) Featherweight

These two did not have a good year in 2012. Both men suffered two losses in the only two fights they had last year. To say their future hangs in the balance under...

It appears that Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) coaches Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen, in addition to 32 determined mixed martial arts (MMA) Middleweight hopefuls, turned out to be a recipe for moderate FX success.

After a surprisingly-entertaining The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 17 season, it's time once again for the Finale event, where weeks of isolation and confinement hopefully culminate to pr...

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UFC 162: Silva vs. Weidman is turning out to be a can't-miss showcase for featherweight talent. With Ricardo Lamas vs. Chan Sung Jung already on the lineup, the UFC has just added two more big-name 145-pound scraps to the July 6th card in Las Vegas...

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