A new Bellator
MMA lightweight champion will be crowned at
Bellator 270.
After Patricio
Freire vacated the 155-pound title, Peter
Queally and Patricky
Freire will battle for that lightweight belt. Both fighters
successfully made championship weight, as Queally (13-5-1) weighed
in at 155 pounds on the dot and Freire (23-10) came in at 153.6
pounds. The only fighter on the card that missed weight was
bantamweight Patrick
Mix, who came in 1.8 pounds over the 136-pound limit. The bout
against James
Gallagher will continue, although Mix has been fined a
percentage of his purse.
Ireland’s Queally is on a two-fight win streak and most recently
defeated Patricky after their
Bellator 258 bout was controversially stopped by the doctor due
to a cut. Queally will get a chance to settle the score and add
some gold to his waist in the rematch.
“Pitbull” will look to keep the lightweight title within the Freire
family. Prior to his setback against Queally, the Brazilian had won
five straight bouts inside the Bellator cage — although he won two
fights and lost to Tofiq
Musayev under the Rizin Fighting Federation banner. The
35-year-old is getting one more crack at the gold that has eluded
him during his career thus far.
Bellator 270’s main card will air live on Showtime at 5 p.m. ET/2
p.m. PT, while the preliminary card begins at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m.
PT.
Bellator 270 Weigh-in Results:
Peter
Queally (155) vs. Patricky
Freire (153.6)
James
Gallagher (136) vs. Patrick Mix
(137.8)*
Pedro
Carvalho (145.8) vs. Daniel
Weichel (145.6)
Ilias
Bulaid (145.8) vs. Georges
Sasu (144.6)
Jordan
Barton (143) vs. Ciaran
Clarke (145.6)
Brian
Hooi (156) vs. Daniele
Scatizzi (155)
Arunas
Andriuskevicus (205.4) vs. Lee
Chadwick (205.6)
Charlie
Milner (263.2) vs. Gokhan
Saricam (236.4)
Bobby
Pallett (170.6) vs. Nicolo
Solli (170.8)
Audrey
Kerouche (114.8) vs. Danni
Neilan (115.6)
Darragh
Kelly (155.4) vs. Junior
Morgan (156)
Stephen
Costello (171) vs. Yusuf
Nazokatov (170.8)
* Mix missed weight by 1.8 pounds and has been fined a
percentage of his purse.