The amateur portion of tonight’s Valor Fights 41 event on Flo Combat will feature a UMMAF qualifier in the heavyweight division as Billy Swanson meets Kelly Payne on the fight card coming from the Evolution Sports Gym in Elizabethton, Tennessee.
Swanson (5-1) enters Valor Fights 41 riding a three fight winning streak and two of those three wins have come by stoppage in the opening round. In his most recent fight, he scored a stoppage victory against Justin Goodin to claim the APEX Fights amateur heavyweight title.
During this week’s episode of “The MMA Report Podcast,” Swanson was a guest on the podcast to preview his fight tonight against Payne at Valor Fights 41.