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. 阿琳Blencowe 2
And Hawaii’s Ilima-Lei Macfarlane vs. Justine Kish
DETAILS FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 22 TO BE ANNOUNCED
洛杉磯 - 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 週六, 四月 23.
Friday night’s BELLATOR 278 will be a special event free for current military, 退伍軍人, 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 塞爾吉奧·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, 克里斯機器俠 (25-2, 1 NC) and Australia’s No. 1-排名 阿琳Blencowe (15-8), who will look to claim gold in her third attempt at a world title.
週六 BELLATOR 279: 佩蒂斯VS. Stots / 半機械人 vs. Blencowe 2 will air live on SHOWTIME at 4:30 P.M. HST 當地時間, 10:30 P.M. AND / 7:30 P.M. PT. The preliminary fights will stream live on the BELLATOR MMA YouTube channel, 在安卡斯維爾的 Mohegan Sun Arena 內的共同特色比賽中 2 P.M. HST 當地時間, 8 P.M. ET /下午5時. PT.
Tickets for Saturday night’s BELLATOR 279: 佩蒂斯VS. Stots / 半機械人 vs. Blencowe 2 開始銷售本星期五, 三月 11 and can be purchased through 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·麥克法蘭 (11-1) will return home to compete against Justine Kish (7-5) 作為無. 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-ranked bantamweight 補丁混合 (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. Stots, 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, 內華達州. 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, 萊斯利·史密斯 (兩次), 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 羽量級排名. 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 ranked bantamweight, 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, 在復活格鬥聯盟的蠅量級和北美格鬥錦標賽的 135 磅級中獲得世界冠軍 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. Stots / 半機械人 vs. Blencowe 2 主卡:
星期六, 四月 23 在他的最後一回合中，他的家鄉觀眾激動不已，他在共同特色的回合中以分裂決定戰勝但丁席羅 開演時間
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-克里斯“機器人”(25-2, 1 NC) VS. #1-阿琳Blencowe (15-8)
飛錘布特: #1-Ilima雷·麥克法蘭 (11-1) VS. Justine Kish (7-5)
Bantamweight World Grand Prix Bout: #2-補丁混合 (15-1) VS. #5-堀口恭司 (29-4)
*卡可能發生變化.
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