Tomorrow night’s Bellator 150 has a new main event as bantamweight champion Marcos Galvao has been pulled from the event due to illness and the heavyweight matchup between Cheick Kongo and Vinicius Queiroz will now headlined the event.
Bellator officials announced the change in a press release on Thursday.
Over the course of fight week, Marcos “Loro” Galvao (17-6-1) has been battling an illness. After consulting physicians, Bellator officials have decided to to pull him from his Bellator MMA Bantamweight Title defense against former champion Eduardo Dantas (17-4). After making weight inside Kansas Star Arena at 10 a.m. CT, Dantas was paid his show money. The fight will be rescheduled in the near future.
With Galvao vs. Dantas being scratched from the event, the previously scheduled featherweight bout between Gaston Reyno and Chuka Willis has been elevated from the preliminary card to the main card broadcast on Spike.
The current Bellator 150 fight card is below.
Main Card: (Spike – 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT)
Cheick Kongo (23-10-2) vs. Vinicius Queiroz (8-3)
David Rickels (16-4, 1 NC) vs. Bobby Cooper (12-5)
Kendall Grove (22-15) vs. Francisco France (13-3-1)
Gaston Reyno (5-0) vs. Chuka Willis (6-2)
Lena Ovchynnikova (10-3) vs. Rebecca Ruth (5-1)
Preliminary Card: (Bellator.com – 6:45 p.m. ET/3:45 p.m. PT)
David Hammons (1-1) vs. Kyle Noblitt (1-0)
Brandon Farran (12-10) vs. Gregory Babene (16-11)
Manny Meraz (7-1) vs. Andre Fialho (5-0)
Chris Harris (4-0) vs. Julian Marquez (2-0)
Marcio Navarro (14-11) vs. Henry Lindsay (4-5)
Thai Clark (5-0) vs. Deron Carlis (4-1)
Jason Witt (7-2) vs. Jonathan Gary (11-6)