Tag: Bellator 181

Emily Ducote Wants to be Superior to Jessica Middleton in All Areas

Emily Ducote is preparing to battle late replacement Jessica Middleton this Friday night (July 14). Ducote and Middleton will compete on the Bellator 181 card. “Gordinha” was originally scheduled to face Valerie Letourneau. MMA Weekly recently interviewed Ducote before her upcoming bout. She described her training camp and why she’s confident in her diversity: “I […]

Emily Ducote is preparing to battle late replacement Jessica Middleton this Friday night (July 14). Ducote and Middleton will compete on the Bellator 181 card. “Gordinha” was originally scheduled to face Valerie Letourneau. MMA Weekly recently interviewed Ducote before her upcoming bout. She described her training camp and why she’s confident in her diversity: “I […]

Bellator 181: Female Featherweights Alexis Dufresne, Amanda Bell Booked

Amanda Bell will make her Bellator debut this coming July, as she takes on nine-fight veteran Alexis Dufresne at Bellator 181. Bell (4-4) had been competing in Invicta FC where she earned a win over Gabrielle Holloway after losses to Faith Van Duin and current champion Megan Anderson. Holloway is coming off a victory over […]

Amanda Bell will make her Bellator debut this coming July, as she takes on nine-fight veteran Alexis Dufresne at Bellator 181. Bell (4-4) had been competing in Invicta FC where she earned a win over Gabrielle Holloway after losses to Faith Van Duin and current champion Megan Anderson. Holloway is coming off a victory over […]

Kendall Grove-John Salter Scheduled for Bellator 181 This July

Kendall Grove will make his eighth appearance inside the Bellator cage this summer, taking on John Salter at Bellator 181. Grove (23-16) had won two straight before falling to former champion Alexander Shlemenko last October. Overall, he is 4-3 since signing with Bellator in 2013. Salter (13-3) has won all three of his fights with […]

Kendall Grove will make his eighth appearance inside the Bellator cage this summer, taking on John Salter at Bellator 181. Grove (23-16) had won two straight before falling to former champion Alexander Shlemenko last October. Overall, he is 4-3 since signing with Bellator in 2013. Salter (13-3) has won all three of his fights with […]

Valerie Letourneau Makes Promotional Debut At Bellator 181

Former UFC title challenger Valerie Letourneau has agreed to a date and an opponent for her Bellator MMA debut. Letourneau, who signed with the promotion last month, is scheduled to fight Emily Ducote in a women’s flyweight bout at Bellator 181. She announced the news during Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. Letourneau departed ways

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Former UFC title challenger Valerie Letourneau has agreed to a date and an opponent for her Bellator MMA debut. Letourneau, who signed with the promotion last month, is scheduled to fight Emily Ducote in a women’s flyweight bout at Bellator 181. She announced the news during Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour.

Letourneau departed ways with the UFC earlier this year after she suffered her third consecutive loss in a split decision to Viviane Pereira at UFC 206 in December. The departure was mutual between the two sides. She had her issues with making weight for the strawweight division. The UFC has made it clear that it has no intention to add a 125-pound division in the near future. She began her UFC career at bantamweight with a split-decision win over Elizabeth Phillips at UFC 174 in June 2014. She then cut down to strawweight and at first, her decision to do so paid off in a big way. She received a title shot at UFC 193 in November 2015 against undefeated strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk. However, the fight did not go the way she wanted. Letourneau hung tough for five rounds en route to a unanimous decision loss. The UFC allowed her to have a one-off fight at strawweight as she fought Joanne Calderwood at UFC Fight Night 89 this past June, but she suffered a third-round TKO defeat. She then had to move back down to strawweight for the bout with Pereira. But she failed to make weight, prompting her to decide that cutting such a significant amount of weight was no longer an option.

On the other side, Ducote is coming off a submission win over Katy Collins back at Bellator 174 in March. She holds a 5-2 record and is 3-1 under the Bellator banner.

Bellator 181 takes place on Friday, July 14th at the WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville, Oklahoma. Patricky “Pitbull” Freire (17-8) vs. Derek Campos (18-6) in a lightweight bout will headline this event. The prelims will stream on Bellator.com and the Bellator Mobile App while the main card will air live and free on Spike at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT. Additional main and preliminary card bouts will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Patricky Freire vs. Derek Campos To Headline Bellator 181

Bellator MMA has announced the main event for their upcoming Bellator 181 event. The promotion is heading to WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville, Oklahoma in July and they are coming with a lightweight bout that will see Patricky “Pitbull” Freire (17-8) take on Derek Campos (18-6). Freire will be looking to build on

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Bellator MMA has announced the main event for their upcoming Bellator 181 event. The promotion is heading to WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville, Oklahoma in July and they are coming with a lightweight bout that will see Patricky “Pitbull” Freire (17-8) take on Derek Campos (18-6).

Freire will be looking to build on an impressive start to his 2017 campaign, following a second-round finish of Josh Thomson at Bellator 172. Having won seven of his last 10 bouts, Freire is on a roll as he continues to established himself as a contender for the lightweight title. 11 of his 12 career finishes coming by way of knockout, including each of his seven in Bellator.

Campos has also started off this year on the right foot as he earned a big win over Derek Anderson at Bellator 170 earlier this year. He will enter the Bellator cage for the 12th time. Having won nine of his last 12 contests, Campos is looking to avenge his earlier loss to “Pitbull” over three years ago at Bellator 117. Campos will also enter the bout riding a three-fight winning streak, which includes victories over Melvin Guillard and Anderson.

The event takes place on Friday, July 14th. The prelims will stream on Bellator.com and the Bellator Mobile App while the main card will air live and free on Spike at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT. Tickets for the event go on sale this Friday, April 28, 2017, at 10 a.m. CT and can be purchased at WinStar’s Global Event Center Box Office, as well as Ticketmaster and Bellator.com. Additional main and preliminary card bouts will be announced in the coming weeks.

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