Some prominent names have been confirmed for
Bellator Champions Series San Diego.
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The promotion announced on Wednesday that Douglas
Lima, Lorenz
Larkin and Raufeon
Stots will all be competing on the card, which takes place at
Pechanga Arena in San Diego on Sept. 7. Lima will face Aaron
Jeffery at middleweight, while Larkin will lock horns with
Levan
Chokheli in a welterweight clash. Stots, meanwhile, will take
on Marcos
Breno at bantamweight in the evening’s co-main event.
Bellator Champions Series San Diego is headlined by a lightweight
title tilt between Usman
Nurmagomedov and Alexandr
Shabliy. The card will air in its entirety on Max in the United
States.
A former Bellator
welterweight champion, Lima will return to action for the first
time in more than a year. In his last outing, the 36-year-old
Brazilian snapped a four-fight skid with a unanimous decison
triumph over Costello
van Steenis at Bellator 296 in May 2023.
Jeffery, meanwhile, is 3-2 under the Bellator banner. The Dana
White’s Contender Series alum last appeared at Bellator Champions
Series Belfast, where he was outpointed by current middleweight No.
1 contender Fabian
Edwards.
Larkin returned from a lengthy layoff at PFL 6 on June 28, when he
scored a first-round TKO of Alan
Dominguez in a showcase bout. “Monsoon” has lost just once in
his last 10 professional appearances.
Chokeli has won three straight promotional appearances, including a
first-round knockout of Sabah
Homasi in his last outing at Bellator 299 this past
September.
A finalist in the Bellator bantamweight grand prix, Stots has been
victorious in 20 of his 22 pro bouts. He rebounded from a loss to
Patrick
Mix in the 135-pound final by taking a three-round verdict over
Danny
Sabatello at Bellator 301 last November.
Brazil’s Breno has split his first two Bellator outings. The
26-year-old Teixeira MMA & Fitness representative is coming off a
second-round submission loss to Sabatello at Bellator 294.