Leonardo Morales Climbing the Regional Featherweight Ranks
Leonardo Morales, known in the cage as Chimmy, is a 32-year-old featherweight from Managua, Nicaragua. He stands five-eight and trains out of Xtreme Kombat Academy, where he has honed a professional ledger of 14 wins and 10 losses. In a sport that prizes early bloomers and fast movers, Morales’s journey has been anything but linear.
On the MMA regional circuit he currently sits at number 157 in North America, a ranking mirrored in the US West, US Southeast, Nevada and Florida. Those sub-regional spots are earned only by fighters who have competed at least twice in a given area within their last six bouts. For Morales, it is proof of a fighter who has chased opportunity across state lines rather than waited for it to come to him.
He has weighed in at featherweight for each of his last two fights, leaning into a blend of speed and ring craft over brute force. At Xtreme Kombat Academy he drills wrestling takedowns and crisp striking with local standouts, all under the watchful eye of coaches who have seen him grow from a nagging underdog into a clear regional fixture. Now he eyes a return to form, hoping to break back into the conversation by turning those sub-regional stamps on his passport into momentum on the national stage.
