A heavyweight showdown pitting Marcelo
Golm against Daniel
James will serve as the main event for Bellator
293 on March 31.
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Promotion officials announced the card on Monday. Bellator 293
takes place at Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, Calif., and will
also see Cat Zingano
square off against Leah
McCourt in the evening’s featherweight co-headliner. Two other
main card bouts were also confirmed: John Salter
vs. Aaron
Jeffery at middleweight and Jaleel
Willis vs. Rustam
Khabilov at welterweight. The Bellator 293 main draw airs on
Showtime at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT.
A four-time UFC veteran, Golm enters Bellator 293 on a four-bout
winning streak in which he has finished all of his opponents inside
the distance. Most recently, the 30-year-old Brazilian submitted
Davion
Franklin in the third round of their clash at Bellator 283.
James, whose two promotional appearances occurred more than eight
years apart, earned the biggest victory of his career to date at
Bellator 288, where he defeated Tyrell
Fortune via second-round technical knockout. “The Predator”
owns a 14-6-1 career mark that includes stints in Absolute
Championship Akhmat and Legacy Fighting Allliance.
Three lightweight bouts were also announced for the Bellator 293
preliminary card: Archie
Colgan vs. Justin
Montalvo; Mike Hamel
vs. Nick
Browne and Jay-Jay
Wilson vs. Mandel Nello at lightweight. The prelims air on the
Bellator YouTube channel, the Showtime Sports YouTube channel and
Pluto TV at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.