Zane Simon, Eddie Mercado, and Victor Rodriguez breakdown the action for this week’s Bellator and KSW shows. With picks and odds for the main cards.
Outside this weekend’s UFC PPV, two of the other major players in global MMA are putting on notable events. Bellator returns with a bantamweight title fight, as Darrion Caldwell makes his first defense against Leandro Higo. And KSW has a stacked main card with Ariane Lipski putting her flyweight title on the line, Mateusz Gamrot defending his lightweight belt, and a champion vs. champion fight between Tomasz Narkun and Mamed Khalidov.
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Bellator airs this Friday on Paramount network at 9pm Eastern & Pacific. KSW 42 airs via online PPV this Saturday, starting at 10am Eastern/7am Pacific. Here’s a look at the cards as they stand now.
BELLATOR 195
PARAMOUNT MAIN CARD
Darrion Caldwell vs. Leandro Higo
Joe Warren vs. Joe Taimanglo
Emily Ducote vs. Kristina Williams
Juan Archuleta vs. William Joplin
ONLINE PRELIMS
Romero Cotton vs. Justin Reeser
Ky Bennett vs. Morgan Solis
Teagan Dooley vs. Kevin Holland
Thomas Lopez vs. Aaron Webb
Treston Thomison vs. Jessie Vasquez
Fernando Trevino vs. Armando Servin
Cris Williams vs. Daniel Carey
Andrew Parker vs. William Florentino
Justin Patterson vs. Brian Grinnell
KSW 42
iPPV MAIN CARD
Tomasz Narkun vs. Mamed Khalidov
Michel Materla vs. Scott Askham
Lukasz Jurkowski vs. Martin Zawada
Mateusz Gamrot vs. Grzegorz Szulakowski
Ariane Lipski vs. Silvana Gomez Juarez
ONLINE PRELIMS
Marcin Wojcik vs. Chris Fields
Karolina Owczarz vs. Paulina Raszewska
Filip Wolanski vs. Bartlomiej Kopera
Krystian Kaszubowski vs. Christopher Henze