A lightweight clash between Adam
Piccolotti and Mansour
Barnaoui will serve as the main event for
Bellator 287.
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Promotion officials announced the pairing on Wednesday. Bellator
287 takes place at Allianz Cloud Arena in Milan, Italy on Oct. 29
and will see Fabian
Edwards face Charlie
Ward in the evening’s middleweight co-headliner. Two other
contests round out the main draw: Saul Rogers
vs. Tim Wilde at
lightweight and Justin
Gonzales vs. Andrew
Fisher at featherweight. The main card will air on Showtime in
the United States at 3 p.m. ET/noon PT, while prelims stream on the
Bellator MMA YouTube channel, the Showtime Sports YouTube channel
and Pluto TV beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET/8:30 a.m. PT.
The announced preliminary card is as follows: Davy Gallon
vs. Daniele
Scatizzi at lightweight; Simon
Biyong vs. Dragos
Zubko at light heavyweight; Alfie Davis
vs. Thibault
Gouti at lightweight; Chiara
Penco vs. Manuela
Marconetto at strawweight; Yves Landu
vs. Walter
Cogliandro at featherweight; Costello
van Steenis vs. Kamil
Oniszczuk at middleweight; Niocolo Solli vs. Bourama
Camara at welterweight and Steven Hill
vs. Walter
Pugliesi at middleweight.
The 33-year-old Piccolotti kicked off his 2022 campaign with a
unanimous decision triumph against Georgi
Karakhanyan at Bellator 274 on Feb. 19. “The Bomb” has been
with the California-based promotion since 2015, compiling an 8-4
mark during his tenure.
France’s Barnaoui will enter his Bellator debut on a seven-fight
winning streak. “The Afro-Samurai” has enjoyed plenty of success in
other regional promotions, capturing titles in Road FC, M-1
Challenge and BAMMA. The 6-foot-tall Paris native owns a 19-4
career record and has finished all but one of his victories inside
the distance. The losses on his resume are notable: Mateusz
Gamrot, Islam
Makhachev, Kevin Lee and
Ivan
Buchinger.
“Fans can be expecting that a true warrior is coming to Bellator,
and I am motivated to win all my matches in impressive style,” said
Barnaoui in a release. “My style is hard-hitting and tight
submissions. I am a finisher: that’s my style.”