Bellator allows Brett Cooper to take fight outside of promotion, meets Mamed Khalidov at KSW 29

Bellator middleweight Brett Cooper has been given permission to take a fight outside of the promotion and he will meet Mamed Khalidov at KSW 29 on December 6th in Poland. 6 Brett Cooper vs Kendall Grove694

The fight booking was announced by KSW on Wednesday.

KSW 29 will come from the Krakow Arena and the event will be streamed worldwide in its entirety on www.kswtv.com.

Cooper (20-10) is a two-time Bellator middleweight tournament finalist and is coming off a defeat to now Bellator middleweight champion Brandon Halsey in the season ten middleweight tournament. In Bellator, he has the third most wins in middleweight division history and is 7-3 in his last ten fights.

Khalidov (29-4-2) is currently on a nine fight winning streak and eight of those wins have come in KSW. During his winning streak, all of the wins have come by stoppage and his last three wins have come by submission in the first round.

The current KSW 29: Khalidov vs. Cooper fight card is below.

Main Card:
Mamed Khalidov (29-4-2) vs. Brett Cooper (20-10)
Michal Materla (20-4) vs. TBD
Mariusz Pudzianowski (7-3) vs. Pawel Nastula (5-5)
Borys Mańkowski (15-5-1) vs. David Zawada (9-1)
Piotr Strus (9-3-1) vs. Abu Azaitar (9-2-1)
Goran Reljic (13-4) vs. Tomasz Narkun (9-1)
Mateusz Gamrot (7-0) vs. Lukasz Chlewicki (12-3-1)
Artur Sowiński (14-7-1) vs. TBD

Preliminary Card:
Karol Celinski (11-5-1) vs. Tomasz Kondraciuk (11-4)
Robert Radomski (11-3) vs. Mateusz Piskorz (9-2)