Bellator
MMA’s upcoming card in San Diego is down two fights.
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The promotion recently announced that Raufeon
Stots vs. Marcos
Breno and Grant Neal
vs. Khalid
Murtazaliev are now off the Sept. 7 card. As a result, a
women’s flyweight clash pitting Sumiko
Inaba against Mackenzie
Stiller has been elevated to the main draw. A reason for the
cancellations was not revealed.
Bellator Champions Series San Diego takes place at Pechanga
Arena and is headlined by a lightweight championship clash between
Usman
Nurmagomedov and Alexandr
Shabliy. The event will air in its entirety on Max beginning at
8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
Stots is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Danny
Sabatello at Bellator 301 and is 8-1 since joining the
promotion in 2019. Breno, meanwhile, hasn’t competed since April
2023, when he suffered a second-round submission defeat to
Sabatello at Bellator 294.
Neal had a three-bout winning streak snapped on March 22, when he
dropped a three-round verdict against Luke
Trainer at Bellator Belfast. Dagestan’s Murtazliev is 3-1 under
the Bellator banner, including a decision win over Tony
Johnson in his last outing at Bellator 292.