ලාස් වේගාස් (ජූනි මස 15, 2016) සටන් -World මාලා (WSOF.com) අද දින නිවේදනය කරන Thiago Meller has withdrawn from his scheduled welterweight (170 රාත්තල්) එරෙහිව තරග John “Doomsday” Howard (23-12), දැන් සිටින මුහුන පෑමට සිදු වනු ඇත“Mad” Mike Arrant (15-10) in a middleweight (185 රාත්තල්) bout at the much-anticipated WSOF31: Ivanov vs. Copeland world championship doubleheader Mixed Martial Arts (ඵම්එම්ඒ) උත්සවය, NBCSN ජීවත් (9 ප.ව.. සහ/6 ප.ව.. පී.ටී.) Mashantucket දී Foxwoods රිසෝට් කැසිනෝ සිට, ඇවොන්. මත සිකුරාදා, ජූනි මස 17.

ඊට අමතරව, තුන් වේලම Marcus Surin (3-0) of Stamford, ඇවොන්. has been tabbed to step in for සෑම් Watford නියමිත සැහැල්ලු දී (155 රාත්තල්) preliminary card contest against Christian “The Terminator” Torres (0-0) of Endicott, ප්ලේන්ස් හි.

Originally hailing from Orlando, එෆ්ඒඒල්., අඩි 5--9, 28-year-old Arrant, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt, resides in Las Vegas, where he is a member of legendary champion Randy “The Natural” Couture’s Xtreme Couture fight squad.

Arrant is looking to return to the win column following a unanimous decision defeat in his last start on August 7, 2015, at the hands of two-time UFC veteran Brock Jardine.

Prior to the loss, Arrant had reeled off six consecutive victories, five of which he produced in the first round, by way of (ටී)Ko හෝ ඉදිරිපත්. අදට, 12 ඔහුගේ 15 professional wins have been finishes.

During the six-fight win streak, Arrant seized his first championship – regional promotion SteelFist Fight Night’s welterweight title – with a first round (5:00) WHO, (retirement) පිළිබඳ Carl Dieckmann ජූලි 12, 2013.

Like Arrant, the 5-foot-7, 33-year-old Howard boasts a phenomenal finish rate with 15 ඔහුගේ 23 professional victories having come by way of (ටී)Ko හෝ ඉදිරිපත්.

Howard will make his promotional debut with World Series of Fighting following a second stint with the UFC that spanned seven fights and included wins over උරියා ශාලාවේ, Siyar Bahadurzada හා Cathal Pendred.

සිට ඒවා මිල $39.99, tickets for WSOF31: Ivanov vs. Copeland are on sale at WSOF.com and Foxwoods.com.

Doors at The Grand Theatre at Foxwoods Resort Casino will open at 5 ප.ව.. සහ, and the first of seven preliminary card bouts will begin at 5:45 ප.ව..

සමස්ත මූලික සටන කාඩ් WSOF.com මත embeddable වීඩියෝ වාදකය මත සජීවී රොක් වනු ඇත.

In the main event of the five-bout, NBCSN විකාශය ජීවත්, reigning World Series of Fighting heavyweight champion Blagoy Ivanov (13-1) will put his title on the line against Josh “Cuddly Bear” Copeland (12-3).

සැහැල්ලු සම-ප්රධාන උත්සවය දී, වෙතින් සුපිරි ජේසන් "මෙම කැන්සාස් සිටි මංපහරන්නෙකු" මහ (19-5) හා මයික් "මෙම අඟහරු" Ricci (11-4) will square off with their division’s number one contender ranking at stake.

WSOF31: IVANOV VS. COPELAND

ප්රධාන CARD (NBCSN ජීවත්)

World Series of Fighting Heavyweight Championship Main Event:
Blagoy Ivanov (ශූරයා) එදිරිව. Josh Copeland (චැලෙන්ජර්)

සැහැල්ලු සම-ප්රධාන උත්සවය:
ජේසන් මහ එදිරිව. මයික් Ricci

Middleweight: John Howard vs. Mike Arrant
Featherweight: ලුයිස් Palomino එදිරිව. Sheymon Moraes
Middleweight: Phil Hawes vs. ජොෂ් කී

මූලික CARD (WSOF.com ජීවත්)

සරල: Tom Marcellino vs. Devin පවෙල්
බර පංතිය: Juliano Coutinho vs. Justin Willis
බර පංතිය: Tyler King vs. ලොරෙන්සෝ හුඩ්
Welterweight: Robert Fonseca vs. Sean Lally
සරල: Bruce Boyington vs. සාවුල් අල්මේදා
මැක්ග්රොඩි්රඡ්: රොද්රිගු අල්මේදා එදිරිව. Ben Pierre-Saint
සරල: Marcus Surin vs. Christian Torres