TEL AVIV, ІЗРАІЛЬ. (Лістапада. 10, 2016) – All fighters successfully made weight for Israel’s first major mixed martial arts event "Bellator 164: Koreshkov vs. Lima” which takes place inside of Menora Mivtachim Arena in Tel Aviv, Ізраіль. The historic event airs FREE on SPIKE Пятніца, Лістапада 11 на 9 p.m. І/8 p.m. Канэктыкут.

 

The stacked main card is headlined by a must-see welterweight world title main event pitting current champion Андрэй Карашкоў (19-1) супраць Дуглас Ліма (27-6). У дадатак, a pair of featherweight matchups pitting hometown favorite Noad Lahat (9-2) супраць Scott Cleve (15-5) і Георгій Караханян (25-6-1) супраць Kirill Medvedovsky (6-1) will also be featured on the Spike-televised main card. Нарэшце, Ukrainian sensation Lena Ovchynnikova (10-4) returns in a female flyweight contest with Karla Benitez (13-9-1).

 

Scott Coker on the groundbreaking Bellator event in Israel: “This event started about 18 months ago when we came over here to say hello to our international partners Annaney Communications and EGO TOTAL. We sat down with them and they said ‘Hey, there are a lot of great martial artists here. Why don’t we go meet with some of the gyms?’ So, we went to some of the gyms across Tel Aviv where they hosted a nice tryout. We had about 60-70 athletes participate and Royce (Gracie) would say ‘I think this guy could be good. I think this girl could be good. I think that these are some of the talented fighters that you could bring into Bellator.’ From there we started talking about the venues, and talking about the infrastructure of how we could pull of an event of this magnitude here in this city. We have put together an amazing team of people out here that have done a great job helping make this possible. I’ve been in the fight business for 31 гадоў зараз, promoting fights all over the world, but this is one that is really a big feather in our cap. Я сапраўды, really excited to be here in Israel promoting our inaugural event, and we already have a date set for next year. We will be back, and we’d like to make this an annual stop for the company.

 

Галоўная Карта: (Free on SPIKE – 9 p.m. І/8:00 p.m. Канэктыкут)

Welterweight World Title Fight: Андрэй Карашкоў (169.8 кг.) супраць. Дуглас Ліма (170 кг.)

 

Featherweight Co-Main Event: Noad Lahat (145.8 кг.) супраць. Scott Cleve (145.8 кг.)

 

150 фунт, catchweight Feature Bout: Георгій Караханян (149.5 кг.) супраць. Kirill Medvedovsky (151 кг.)

 

Flyweight Feature Bout: Lena Ovchynnikova (123.5 кг.) супраць. Karla Benitez (124.5 кг.)

 

Папярэдняе Card

Welterweight Preliminary Fight: Joaquin Buckley (170.5 кг.) супраць. Jackie Gosh (170.8 кг.)

Light Heavyweight Preliminary Fight: Chen Shhori (205 кг.) супраць. Kfir Eittan (205 кг.)

Welterweight Preliminary Fight: Haitham Kiuof (170.3 кг.) супраць. Moshe Rand (173 кг.)

Lightweight Preliminary Fight: Rob Becker (155.5 кг.) супраць. Ejargew Tariku (155.2 кг.)

Welterweight Preliminary Fight: Sol Renato (170.5 кг.) супраць. Alex Trofimov (170.3 кг.)

Bantamweight Preliminary Fight: Almog Shay (136 кг.) супраць. Vitaly Khmeinytsky (136 кг.)

Lightweight Preliminary Fight: Olga Rubin (145.8 кг.) супраць. Laurita Cibirite (140.5 кг.)

Bantamweight Preliminary Fight: Raz Bring (134.8 кг.) супраць. Maor Kazalkopy (135.5 кг.)

Middleweight Preliminary Fight: Alexander Nikulin (183.8 кг.) супраць. Avi Baron (182.8 кг.)

Bantamweight Preliminary Fight: Onor Keles (137.5 кг.) супраць. Omri Barel (135 кг.)

Welterweight Preliminary Fight: Zane Clerk (170.8 кг.) супраць. Haim Gozali (170 кг.)

Featherweight Preliminary Fight: Igor Postnikov (144.5 кг.) супраць. Itai Gayer (143 кг.)