Filed under: AXS TV Fights , Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos Officials say 14 fighters – 14! – turned down a fight tonight with LFA champ Andrea Lee . So why didn’t she just take a slot on “The Ultimate Fighter 26”? Lee (7-2), the inaugural and reigning LFA women’s flyweight champion, co-headlines tonight’s LFA 23 event against challenger Jamie Morton (4-3), which airs on AXS TV from Bossier City Hotel Casino & Hotel in Bossier, La. Morton has lost two straight – she was on the receiving end of a brutal Sabina Mazo head-kick KO earlier this year – but she was willing to fight Lee when so many others apparently weren’t. Related LFA 9 video highlights: Check out the head-kick KO that led to this photo So why didn’t Lee take a spot on the cast of “ TUF 26 ,” the latest installment of the UFC’s long-running reality series – one that crowns the UFC’s first 125-pound female champion and would guarantee the 28-year-old “KGB” would have no trouble securing matchups? “Well, I chose not to do it,” she told AXS TV’s Phoenix Carnevale
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