TEL AVIV, ІЗРАЇЛЬ. (Листопад. 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, Ізраїль. The historic event airs FREE on SPIKE П'ятниця, Листопад 11 на 9 p.m. І/8 p.m. Коннектикут.

 

The stacked main card is headlined by a must-see welterweight world title main event pitting current champion Андрій Корінців (19-1) проти Дуглас Ліма (27-6). На додаток, a pair of featherweight matchups pitting hometown favorite Noad Lahat (9-2) проти Скотт Клів (15-5) і Георгій Караханян (25-6-1) проти 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 років тепер, promoting fights all over the world, but this is one that is really a big feather in our cap. Я дійсно, 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.

 

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

Welterweight World Title Fight: Андрій Корінців (169.8 кг.) проти. Дуглас Ліма (170 кг.)

 

Сумірна головна подія у напівважкій вазі: Noad Lahat (145.8 кг.) проти. Скотт Клів (145.8 кг.)

 

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

 

Легка вага: Lena Ovchynnikova (123.5 кг.) проти. Karla Benitez (124.5 кг.)

 

Попереднє Card

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lightweight Preliminary Fight: Ольга Рубін (145.8 кг.) проти. Laurita Cibirite (140.5 кг.)

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

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

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

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

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