The card for
Bellator Champions Series San Diego is now complete.
The promotion on Tuesday announced the full lineup for the event,
which takes place at Pechanga Arena in San Diego, California, on
Sept. 7. The card is headlined by a lightweight championship clash
between Usman
Nurmagomedov and Alexandr
Shabliy and will air in its entirety on Max in the United
States.
In the bantamweight co-main event, Raufeon
Stots will square off against Marcos
Breno. Meanwhile, Lorenz
Larkin will face Levan
Chokheli in a No. 1 contender’s bout at welteweight. The main
draw will also include a middleweight clash between Douglas
Lima and Aaron Jeffrey and a lightweight scrap pitting Yancy
Medeiros against Jora Ayvazyan.
Several preliminary bouts were also confirmed for Bellator San
Diego: Grant Neal
vs. Khalid
Murtazaliev at middleweight; Masayuki
Kikuiri vs. Herman
Terrado at welterweight; Bryce
Meredith vs. John
MaCalolooy at bantamweight; Josh Hokit
vs. Sean Rose at
heavyweight and Aysia
Cortez vs. Ashley
Thiner at strawweight.