Bellators newest heavyweights Ewerton Teixeira (좌회전) and Lorenzo Hood

 

산타 모니카, 칼리프. (할 수있다 4, 2015) – Bellator MMA’s heavyweight division will now play host to a pair of the hardest-hitting heavyweights in the game, as promotion officials are proud to announce the addition of Brazilian K-1 champion Ewerton 테셰이라 (3-0), as well as Blackzilians slugger 로렌조 “The Samoan Silverback” 후드 (9-2).

 

Debut dates and opponents will be announced for both fighters in the near future.

 

A third dan black belt in Kyokushin karate, 33 세의 텍사스는 십년 이상 눈에 띄는 대회 타이틀을 건 드리는되었습니다. 텍사스는에 정정 당당한 싸움의 절정에 도달 2008, 그 후 후쿠오카 제목에 그 해의 K-1 월드 그랑프리를 받았다 때 K-1 월드 그랑프리 파이널의 챔피언을 가릴에 그의 방법을 싸웠다, where he would come up just short against Errol Zimmerman (though Teixeira would avenge that result in 2010).

 

Teixeira then turned his attention to MMA in 2012, and he has remained undefeated through his first three professional contests in the sport and is now ready to try his hand at MMA’s highest level.

 

그 동안에, 6 피트 3 후드 이후 전문적으로 경쟁하고있다 2009 and has never had a fight go past the first round. 그의 아홉 경력 승리, all nine have come by knockout. 후드과 미국의 전반에 걸쳐 싸워왔다. 지역 회로에 경쟁하는 동안, earning himself recognition as one of the top heavyweight prospects in the sport.

 

Competing under the tutelage of former world champion Rashad Evans, the 26-year-old Hood’s work at Florida’s Blackzilians camp has prepared him for an opportunity to compete against the world’s best fighters, and Bellator MMA will now offer him a platform to prove his talent.