UNDEFEATED LIGHTWEIGHTS JAKE ROBERTS-CARRINGTON BANKS READY FOR ACTION IN PRELIMINARY CONTEST
Santa Monica, ကာလီဖိုးနီးယား (အောက်တိုဘာလ 19, 2016) – The anticipated mixed martial arts debut of flyweight Keri Melendez will come against Sheila Padilla (2-0) during the main card of "Bellator 165: Chandler vs. Henderson " San Jose အတွက်သည် SAP Center မှာ, ကာလီဖိုးနီးယား. နိုဝင်ဘာအပေါ်. 19.
ဖြည့်စွက်ကာ, a lightweight bout pitting Carrington Banks (5-0) ဆန့်ကျင် Jake Roberts (7-0) has been added to the Bellator.com-streamed preliminary card.
The bouts join action-packed fights highlighted by a lightweight world title main event featuring မိက္ခေလသည် Chandler (15-3) ဆန့်ကျင် Benson Henderson (24-6). ဖြည့်စွက်ကာ, a welterweight clash between undefeated British striker မိုက်ကယ် "Venom" စာမျက်နှာ (11-0) and California’s own ဖာနန်ဒို Gonzalez (25-13) will also be the card’s co-main event. Rounding out the televised action, a lightweight showdown pitting အာဒံကို Piccolot (8-0) ဆန့်ကျင် Brandon Girtz (14-4) and a light heavyweight matchup pitting Linton “The Swarm” Vassell (16-5) နှင့် Francis က Carmont (14-4) were added earlier this week.
"Bellator 165: Chandler vs. Henderson " will take place on နိုဝင်ဘာလ 19, airing LIVE and FREE on SPIKE at 9 p.m ET/ 8 p.m. ဓါတ်မှန် CT. Tickets for the event are on sale now and can be purchased at Bellator.com, as well as SAP Center Box Office and Ticketmaster.
The queen of the infamous Skrap Pack in Northern California, Melendez made her first appearance in a victory during the kickboxing portion of "Bellator: ဒိုင်းနမိုက် 1, " and followed up with another win at “Dynamite 2.” Melendez tallied a 4-1 amateur mark before taking her talents to the professional circuit, သူမလက်ရှိရရှိထားသူဘယ်မှာ 4-1 kickboxing စံချိန်တင်. The 32-year-old flyweight will now make the transition to MMA, an iteration of combat sports that her husband, Gilbert Melendez has plenty of success in. Living up to her promise of making her debut in 2016, Melendez will compete on the main card of "Bellator 165: Chandler vs. Henderson " San Jose အတွက်သည် SAP Center မှာ, ကာလီဖိုးနီးယား. အပေါ် နိုဝင်ဘာ. 19.
Fighting out of Visalia, ကာလီဖိုးနီးယား။, Padilla will enter the Bellator MMA fray following two successful wins on the regional scene, both coming in 2016. Training under Bellator MMA veteran Doug Marshall at Team Elite, this will be Padilla’s opportunity to truly make a name for herself against Melendez, when she competes LIVE on SPIKE.
Just like his opponent, Banks enters the cage undefeated and ready to make another splash in his second fight since joining the Scott Coker-led promotion. The Peoria, Illinois native has finished two of his five victims and dominated all three of his decision victories, earning each by unanimous variety. “Jetsetter” will look to use Roberts as his runway for success as the Blackzilian product hopes to couple his Bellator MMA debut triumph with yet another feat and continue his climb up the lightweight ranks. After competing professionally in Kansas, တက္ကဆက်ပြည်နယ်, and Iowa, the trip to Connecticut will mark Banks’ first on the East Coast. Tune in to Bellator.com’s live-streaming preliminary action to find out if the long journey will have any effect on “Jetsetter” and his performance.
“The North County Nightmare” hasn’t the slightest idea what it’s like to lose, as the 25-year-old enters his eighth professional contest at an admirable 7-0. Having won all five amateur bouts and each of his first four professional fights by way of first round submission, it is Roberts’ ground game that keeps his opponents up at night. သို့သော်, Roberts’ 2016 campaign has been all about power, after recording back-to-back knockout finishes, highlighted by an emphatic first round knockout in his Bellator MMA debut at "Bellator 160: Henderson vs. Pitbull.” Roberts hopes to haunt Banks’ dreams when the two clash in the bright lights of SAP Center in San Jose, ကာလီဖိုးနီးယား.
"Bellator ဖြည့်စွက် 165: Chandler vs. Henderson” Main Card:
Lightweight World Title Main Event: မိက္ခေလသည် Chandler (15-3) vs. Benson Henderson (24-6)
Welterweight Co-Main Event: မိက္ခေလသည်စာမျက်နှာ (11-0) vs. ဖာနန်ဒို Gonzalez (25-13)
Light Heavyweight Feature Bout: Linton Vassell (16-5) vs. Francis က Carmont (25-11)
Lightweight Feature Bout: အာဒံကို Piccolot (8-0) vs. Brandon Girtz (14-4)
Flyweight Feature Bout: Keri-Anne Taylor-Melendez (ပွဲဦးထွက်) vs. Sheila Padilla (2-0)
Complete Preliminary Card:
ပေါ့ပါးသောပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: Carrington Banks (5-0) vs. Jake Roberts (7-0)
Middleweight ပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: Diego Herzog (3-2) vs. နစ်ခ် Pica (5-0)
Bantamweight ပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: Gabe Carrasco (7-0) vs. Rolando Velasco (10-4)
Welterweight Preliminary Bout: ဂျိမ်းတယ်ရီ (17-9) vs. Justin Baesman (19-10-1)
Featherweight ပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: ဟိုဆေးဖာ (2-1) vs. J.T. Donaldson (2-1)
ပေါ့ပါးသောပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: J.J. Okanovich (2-1) vs. Luis Vargas (ပွဲဦးထွက်)
ပေါ့ပါးသောပဏာမရင်ဆိုင်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း: Hugo Lujan (0-1) vs. Cesar Gonzalez (ပွဲဦးထွက်)
Welterweight “VOW” Preliminary Bout: Dominic Sumer (ပွဲဦးထွက်) vs. Justin Roswell (1-0)
Welterweight Preliminary Bout: Danasabe Mohammed (5-0) vs. Dwight Grant (6-1)
Flyweight Preliminary Bout: Sarah D’Alelio (10-6) vs. Jaimelene Nievera (4-1)