The Invicta Fighting Championships strawweight division has a new queen. Take a bow, Livia Renata Souza.
Souza submitted Katja Kankaanpaa with a fourth-round triangle choke to capture the organization’s 115-pound crown in the Invicta 12 headliner on Friday at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Kan. Kankaanpaa (10-2-1) requested intervention from referee John McCarthy 3:58 into round four, as she was finished for the first time in her 13-fight career.
The match entered the fourth round with the outcome still very much in doubt. There, Kankaanpaa bullied to the Brazilian to the mat and settled in half guard.