A hand injury to Patricky Pitbull has delayed his lightweight tournament final against Marcin Held and replacing this fight on next week’s Bellator 120 preliminary card will be a featherweight bout between Shahbulat Shamhalaev and Fabricio Guerreiro.
Bellator announced the changes on Friday afternoon. TheMMAReport.com has learned that Pitbull’s hand injury is not a broken hand and is expected to need thirty days to recover.
“It’s unfortunate to lose a fight like Patricky vs. Held on May 17th, but we were able to reschedule the Shahbulat-Fabricio fight which will be a great fight,” said Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney. “Patricky will take some time to heal and then we’ll look to re-schedule his Tournament Championship fight with Marcin, who is one of the top young rising stars in our sport.”
Shamhalaev and Guerreiro were initially scheduled to meet at tonight’s Bellator 119, but passport issues with Guerreiro forced the fight to be scratched from the event. They will now meet on the televised portion of the Bellator 120 prelims next Saturday night and are scheduled to be the second fight on the Spike TV prelims.
The current Bellator 120: Alvarez vs. Chandler III fight card lineup is below.
Main Card: (PPV – 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT)
Eddie Alvarez (25-3) vs. Michael Chandler (12-1)
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (34-11) vs. Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal (12-3, 1NC)
Alexander Shlemenko (50-7) vs. Tito Ortiz (16-11-1)
Will Brooks (13-1) vs. Nate Jolly (13-5)
Rickey Rainey (7-2) vs. Michael Page (5-0)
Preliminary Card: (Spike TV – 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT)
Blagoi Ivanov (11-0) vs. Alexander Volkov (20-4)
Cheick Kongo (20-9) vs. Eric Smith (6-1-1)
Shahbulat Shamhalaev (12-2) vs. Fabricio Guerreiro (19-3)
Goiti Yamauchi (16-2) vs. Mike Richman (16-4)
Preliminary Card: (Spike.com – 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT)
Zach Underwood (12-5) vs. Austin Lyons (10-3)
Justin Frazier (6-1) vs. Mike Wessel (13-7)
Ben Brewer (6-1) vs. Andy Uhrich (8-4)
Anthony Lemon (2-3) vs. Codie Shuffield (4-0)
Cortez Phelia (2-0) vs. Brain Hall (7-2)