Leah
McCourt will lock horns with Jessica
Borga in the Bellator
267 co-main event on Oct. 1.
Promotion officials announced the featherweight booking on
Wednesday. Bellator 267 takes place at the SSE Arena in London and
is headlined by a welterweight rematch between Douglas
Lima and Michael
Page. The main card airs on Showtime at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT,
while prelims begin at 12:30 p.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT.
McCourt enters the matchup with Borga on a five-bout winning
streak, with four of those victories coming within the
California-based promotion. Most recently, the 29-year-old Belfast
native submitted Janay
Harding in the second round at Bellator 259 on May 21.
Borga, meanwhile, had a two-fight winning streak snapped in a
unanimous decision loss to Talita
Nogueira at Bellator 256 on April 9. The Champions MMA export
began her promotional tenure with a first-round submission win over
Amber
Leibrock at Bellator 226.