There has been a change near the top of Friday’s
Bellator 275 card.
A lightweight scrap pitting recent title challenger Peter
Queally against Kane Mousah
has been canceled after Queally suffered an undisclosed injury. As
a result, a women’s featherweight showdown pitting Leah
McCourt against Sinead
Kavanagh has been elevated to the co-main event.
Promotion officials announced the change on Monday. Bellator 275
takes place at the 3Arena in Dublin on Friday and is headlined by a
middleweight title tilt between Gegard
Mousasi and Austin
Vanderford. The evening’s main card will air on Showtime at 4
p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT, while prelims stream on the Bellator MMA YouTube
channel, the Showtime Sports YouTube channel and Pluto TV at 1 p.m.
ET/10 a.m. PT.
The rest of the five-bout main card is as follows: Ciaran
Clarke vs. Abou Tounkara at featherweight; Khasan
Magomedsharipov vs. Jose
Sanchez at featherweight and Brian Moore
vs. Jornel Lugo
at bantamweight.
McCourt vs. Kavanagh is billed as the “biggest Irish female fight
ever,” according to a Bellator release. A former Cage Warriors
competitor, McCourt enters the matchup on a five-bout winning
streak, that includes a unanimous decision triumph over Jessica
Borga in her last outing at Bellator 267.
Kavanagh, meanwhile, is coming off a failed bid for 145-pound gold
at Bellator 271, where she suffered a first-round KO loss to
reigning champ Cristiane
Justino. Prior to that, the SBG Ireland representative had
earned back-to-back triumphs over Olga Rubin
and Katharina
Lehner.