BANTAMWEIGHT WORLD GRAND PRIX QUARTERFINALS
Champion Sergio Pettis vs. Raufeon索陶
Patchy Mix vs. 堀口恭司
更多, BELLATOR FEATHERWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Champion Cris Cyborg vs. Arlene Blencowe 2
And Hawaii’s Ilima-Lei Macfarlane vs. Justine Kish
DETAILS FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 22 TO BE ANNOUNCED
天使- BELLATOR MMA has announced its return to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where Honolulu’s Neal S. Blaisdell Arena will play home to an extremely stacked duo of events on back-to-back nights Friday, 四月 22 周六, 四月 23.
Friday night’s BELLATOR 278 will be a special event free for current military, 退伍军人, and first responders. Matchups and additional details for the event will be announced shortly.
Saturday night’s BELLATOR 279 will feature the launch of the highly anticipated one-million-dollar BELLATOR Bantamweight World Grand Prix. The headliner will see current bantamweight world champion 塞尔吉奥·佩蒂斯 (22-5) take on No. 3-排名 Raufeon索陶 (17-1), while the co-main event features a rematch between the greatest female mixed martial artist of all time, 克里斯机器侠 (25-2, 1 NC) and Australia’s No. 1-排名 Arlene Blencowe (15-8), who will look to claim gold in her third attempt at a world title.
周六 BELLATOR 279: 佩蒂斯VS. 斯托茨 / 电子人VS. Blencowe 2 will air live on SHOWTIME at 4:30 P.M. HST 当地时间, 10:30 P.M. AND / 7:30 P.M. PT. 预赛将在 BELLATOR MMA YouTube 频道上直播, SHOWTIME Sports YouTube 频道和 Pluto TV 开始于 2 P.M. HST 当地时间, 8 P.M. ET /下午5时. PT.
Tickets for Saturday night’s BELLATOR 279: 佩蒂斯VS. 斯托茨 / 电子人VS. Blencowe 2 本周五开始发售, 三月 11 并可以通过购买 Bellator.com, 以及 Ticketmaster.com or the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena Box Office. A special presale will take place on Thursday, 三月 10.
Also scheduled for a return to action, Honolulu’s own former Women’s Flyweight World Champion Ilima雷·麦克法兰 (11-1) will return home to compete against Justine Kish (7-5) 作为无. 1 ranked women’s flyweight looks to start her journey back to a world title in the same arena two of the most memorable BELLATOR main events in recent memory took place. Opening the four-fight main card is another BELLATOR Bantamweight World Grand Prix quarterfinal matchup between No. 2-最轻量级 补丁混合 (15-1) and former BELLATOR and Rizin Bantamweight World Champion 堀口恭司 (29-4).
Current BELLATOR Bantamweight World Champion Sergio “The Phenom” Pettis sits at No. 7 on the promotion’s pound-for-pound list. He successfully defended his belt for the first time against former BELLATOR 135-pound titleholder Kyoji Horiguchi with a “knockout of the year” style finish at BELLATOR 272 十二月. The hard-hitting Midwesterner out of Milwaukee originally captured the crown by outpointing former champion Juan Archuleta. The younger brother of former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis will be in for one of the toughest fights of his career when he takes on Raufeon Stots. 斯托茨, who used to train alongside Pettis for several years, has been flawless since making his promotion debut in December 2019. He most recently scored a dominant unanimous decision victory over Magomed Magomedov at BELLATOR 264.
Featherweight world champion and top-ranked women’s pound-for-pound fighter Cris “Cyborg” has made three straight title defenses including a second-round submission of Arlene Blencowe in 2020, which surprisingly is the lone submission victory of her storied career. The Brazilian native who currently fights out of Las Vegas, 内华达州. is a “Grand Slam Champion” having won belts in four different organizations. She sports 20 wins by finish with victories over elite competition including Holly Holm, 莱斯利·史密斯 (两次), Gina Carano and aims to further her legacy as the greatest women’s mixed martial artist of all time in the rematch versus Blencowe. Australia’s Blencowe is BELLATOR’s No. 6 pound-for-pound female fighter and the No. 1 羽量级排名. She has won five of her last six fights and earned her shot at the world title rematch with a unanimous decision over Pam Sorenson at BELLATOR 271 十一月.
Currently BELLATOR’s No. 2 最轻量级, Patchy Mix recently defeated James Gallagher via submission in his last outing at BELLATOR 270 在都柏林. Mix has made a name for himself in the BELLATOR cage by displaying impressive submissions and his lone professional loss came to former champion Juan Archuleta. He now faces Horiguchi, another former world champion who hails from Takasaki, 日本. The American Top Team prodigy Horiguchi became a simultaneous, 两次晋级冠军 2019 after he upset then-BELLATOR champion Darrion Caldwell while also holding the RIZIN Championship. After he was forced to relinquish his BELLATOR title due to an injury, Horiguchi nearly got his hands back on BELLATOR’s title but was stopped by current champion Sergio Pettis in December. The No. 5 ranked bantamweight now aims to get back in the winning column and recapture his belt, along with the million-dollar prize that awaits the winner of the BELLATOR Bantamweight World Grand Prix.
BELLATOR MMA 279: 佩蒂斯VS. 斯托茨 / 电子人VS. Blencowe 2 主卡:
星期六, 四月 23 – 活下去 开演时间
10:30 P.M. AND / 7:30 P.M. PT / 4:30 P.M. HST (local)
Bantamweight World Title Bout: Ç-Sergio Pettis (22-5) VS. #3-Raufeon索陶 (17-1)
Featherweight World Title Bout: Ç-Cris “Cyborg” (25-2, 1 NC) VS. #1-Arlene Blencowe (15-8)
飞锤布特: #1-Ilima雷·麦克法兰 (11-1) VS. Justine Kish (7-5)
Bantamweight World Grand Prix Bout: #2-补丁混合 (15-1) VS. #5-堀口恭司 (29-4)
*卡可能发生变化.
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