TEL AVIV, Исроил. (Nov. 10, 2016) – All fighters successfully made weight for Israel’s first major mixed martial arts event "Bellator 164: Koreshkov против. Lima” which takes place inside of Menora Mivtachim Arena in Tel Aviv, Исроил. The historic event airs FREE on SPIKE Ҷумъа, Ноябр 11 дар 9 Земле. ВА/8 Земле. Ч..

 

The stacked main card is headlined by a must-see welterweight world title main event pitting current champion Андрей Koreshkov (19-1) бар зидди Дуглас Лима (27-6). Дар Илова, a pair of featherweight matchups pitting hometown favorite Noad Lahat (9-2) бар зидди Scott Cleve (15-5) ва Георгий Karakhanyan (25-6-1) бар зидди Kirill Medvedovsky (6-1) will also be featured on the Spike-televised main card. Lastly, 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 сол ҳоло, promoting fights all over the world, but this is one that is really a big feather in our cap. Ман дар ҳақиқат дорам, 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.

 

Card асосӣ: (Free on SPIKE – 9 Земле. ВА/8:00 Земле. Ч.)

Welterweight World Title Fight: Андрей Koreshkov (169.8 lbs.) против. Дуглас Лима (170 lbs.)

 

Featherweight Co-Main Event: Noad Lahat (145.8 lbs.) против. Scott Cleve (145.8 lbs.)

 

150 Фунт, catchweight Feature Bout: Георгий Karakhanyan (149.5 lbs.) против. Kirill Medvedovsky (151 lbs.)

 

Flyweight Feature Bout: Lena Ovchynnikova (123.5 lbs.) против. Karla Benitez (124.5 lbs.)

 

Card пешакӣ

Welterweight Preliminary Fight: Joaquin Buckley (170.5 lbs.) против. Jackie Gosh (170.8 lbs.)

Light Heavyweight Preliminary Fight: Chen Shhori (205 lbs.) против. Kfir Eittan (205 lbs.)

Welterweight Preliminary Fight: Haitham Kiuof (170.3 lbs.) против. Moshe Rand (173 lbs.)

Lightweight Preliminary Fight: Rob Becker (155.5 lbs.) против. Ejargew Tariku (155.2 lbs.)

Welterweight Preliminary Fight: Sol Renato (170.5 lbs.) против. Alex Trofimov (170.3 lbs.)

Bantamweight Preliminary Fight: Almog Shay (136 lbs.) против. Vitaly Khmeinytsky (136 lbs.)

Lightweight Preliminary Fight: Olga Rubin (145.8 lbs.) против. Laurita Cibirite (140.5 lbs.)

Bantamweight Preliminary Fight: Raz Bring (134.8 lbs.) против. Maor Kazalkopy (135.5 lbs.)

Middleweight Preliminary Fight: Alexander Nikulin (183.8 lbs.) против. Avi Baron (182.8 lbs.)

Bantamweight Preliminary Fight: Onor Keles (137.5 lbs.) против. Omri Barel (135 lbs.)

Welterweight Preliminary Fight: Zane Clerk (170.8 lbs.) против. Haim Gozali (170 lbs.)

Featherweight Preliminary Fight: Igor Postnikov (144.5 lbs.) против. Itai Gayer (143 lbs.)