Bellator will return on Friday night as the promotion will be at the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma and the event will be headlined by a rematch as Joe Warren defends the Bellator bantamweight title against Marcos Galvao.
The fight card will begin at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT with the online preliminary card and the four fight main card will start at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on Spike TV.
Along with the bantamweight title fight, the co-main event will also be a bantamweight bout as L.C. Davis looks for his third win in Bellator as he meets veteran Hideo Tokoro.
Check out a breakdown of the four fights that will be on the main card broadcast on Spike TV on Friday night.
Joe Warren (12-3) vs. Marcos Galvao (16-6-1)
Warren will be making his first unified bantamweight title defense against Galvao and in their first meeting, he won by controversial decision. He will enter this fight on a five fight winning streak and this will mark his second straight fight to take place at the WinStar World Casino.
- Warren is tied the 3rd most wins in Bellator history (10).
- 5th most cage time in Bellator history (2:37:59).
- His 5 fight winning streak is the 4th longest active winning streak in Bellator.
- One of three fighters in Bellator history to win a tournament in two different weight classes (Pat Curran and Rick Hawn).
Galvao has won three in a row since losing to Eduardo Dantas for the Bellator bantamweight title in 2013. During his winning streak, two of the three wins have come by TKO and his most recent win came at Bellator 118 against Thomas Vasquez.
- Tied with Warren for the 2nd most wins in Bellator bantamweight division history (5).
- Won six of his last seven fights.
- Tied with Dantas for the most TKO/KO wins in Bellator bantamweight division history (2).
L.C. Davis (22-6) vs. Hideo Tokoro (32-27)
Davis signed with Bellator early last year and has won both of his fights in the promotion. After submitting Tory Bogguess in his Bellator debut in March of last year, he came back six months later and scored a decision victory over Zeilton Rodrigues.
- Since dropping to bantamweight, he has won six of his last seven fights.
- 15 career victories by knockout or submission and 11 of them have come in 1st Round.
- Four of his six defeats have come by decision.
Tokoro will fight in the United States for the second time in his career and his only other fight in the United States came in 2007 when he defeated Brad Pickett by submission. He has lost back to back fights and he is 6-4 in his last ten fights.
- 18 wins by submission
- Last victory came 643 days ago against Taylor McCorriston in Japan.
- Record in fights going to the scorecards: 9-10-2
Francis Carmont (22-10) vs. Guilherme Viana (6-1)
Carmont is making his Bellator debut and is moving up to the light heavyweight division. This will be his first fight since his exit from the UFC and will be looking to snap a three fight losing streak.
- Before losing three in a row, Carmont had won eleven fights in a row.
- Went 6-3 in the UFC.
- 16 wins by knockout or submission.
Viana is also making his Bellator debut and along with this being his Bellator debut, this is also his United States debut. He enters this fight on a three fight winning streak and all three of those wins have come by stoppage.
- All of his wins have come by stoppage and five of them have come in the 1st Round.
- Only career defeat came in 2012 against Rodney Wallace by split decision.
- Has submission victories via armbar and rear-naked choke.
Dakota Cochrane (18-7) vs. Ryan Couture (9-3)
Cochrane made his Bellator debut last year when he stepped up on six days notice to meet Alexander Sarnavskiy. He would be defeated by submission and he will enter this fight following a 43 second victory over Ted Worthington by TKO.
- 7-4 in his last eleven fights.
- 12 wins by knockout or submission.
- 5 of his 7 defeats have come by submission.
Couture enters this fight on a three fight winning streak and he won his Bellator debut last year when he defeated Tom Bagnasco by rear-naked choke submission. During his current winning streak, all of the wins have come by rear-naked choke submission.
- 5 submission wins and 4 have come via rear-naked choke.
- His 3 decision victories have come by either majority or split decision.
- His average fight time during his current winning streak is 3:56.
The complete Bellator 135: Warren vs. Galvao II fight card is below.
Main Card (Spike TV – 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT)
Joe Warren (12-3) vs. Marcos Galvao (16-6-1)
L.C. Davis (22-6) vs. Hideo Tokoro (32-27)
Francis Carmont (22-10) vs. Guilherme Viana (6-1)
Dakota Cochrane (18-7) vs. Ryan Couture (9-3)
Preliminary Card (Spike.com 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. ET)
Rashad Coulter (4-1) vs. Jeremiah O’Neal (13-24)
Sean Holden (2-1) vs. Tim Roman (2-1)
Neal Ewing (5-0) vs. Logan Nail (1-0)
Emmanuel Sanchez (9-1) vs. Alejandro Villalobos (17-3)
Stephen Banaszak (3-4) vs. Brad Mitchell (4-1)
Klayton Mai (6-1) vs. Xavier Siller (5-3)
J.P. Cole (2-2) vs. Geo Pacurariu (8-4)