A welterweight clash pitting Michael
Page against Goiti
Yamauchi will complete the
Bellator 292 main card on March 10.
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Promotion officials announced the booking on Wednesday. Bellator
292 takes place at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., and is
headlined by a lightweight grand prix bout between reigning
155-pound champion Usman
Nurmagomedov and Benson
Henderson. The main card airs on Showtime at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m.
PT, while prelims stream on the Bellator YouTube channel, the
Showtime Sports YouTube channel and Pluto TV at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m.
PT.
Several new contests were confirmed to complete the Bellator 292
preliminary draw: Julius
Anglickas vs. Dovletdzhan
Yagshimuradov at light heavyweight; Bobby
Seronio III vs. Alberto
Garcia at bantamweight; Enrique
Barzola vs. Erik Perez at
bantamweight; Khalid
Murtazaliev vs. Tony
Johnson at middleweight and Islam
Mamedov vs. Shamil
Nikaev at lightweight.
Page had a six-bout winning streak snapped in his last outing, when
he dropped a split decision to Logan
Storley in an interim welterweight title bout at Bellator 281.
The 35-year-old Englishman owns a 20-3 career mark that includes
triumphs over the likes of Douglas
Lima, Derek
Anderson and Paul
Daley.
Yamauchi, the first fighter in promotion history to earn victories
in three different weight classes, is undefeated since moving to
170 pounds. During that run, the 30-year-old has earned finishes
against Neiman
Gracie, Levan
Chokheli and Christopher
Gonzalez to establish himself as a contender in his new weight
class.