John Teixeira pulled out of his Bellator 153 bout against Patricio Pitbull on Friday and stepping up on thirteen days notice to face the former Bellator champion on the April 22 fight card will be Henry Corrales.
The new fight booking was revealed by Pitbull on Twitter today.
Bellator 153 will come from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut on April 22 and will be headlined by a title fight as Andrey Koreshkov defends the welterweight title against former UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson.
Corrales (12-2) has lost both of his fights in Bellator and one of those defeats came against current Bellator featherweight champion Daniel Straus. Prior to entering Bellator, ten of this twelve wins came by finish and six of those victories came by submission. Pitbull (24-3) lost the Bellator featherweight title in November against Straus and the defeat snapped a seven fight win streak. During that winning streak, five of the victories came by stoppage and four of them came by TKO/KO.
The current Bellator 153: Koreshkov vs. Henderson fight card is below.
Main Card: (Spike TV – 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT)
Andrey Koreshkov (18-1) vs. Benson Henderson (23-5)
Patricio Freire (24-3) vs. Henry Corrales (12-2)
Brennan Ward (13-3) vs. Evangelista Santos (20-16)
Michael Page (9-0) vs. Jeremie Holloway (7-1)
Brent Primus (6-0) vs. Gleristone Santos (27-5)
Preliminary Card: (Bellator.com – 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT)
Chris Honeycutt (6-1, 1NC) vs. Matt Secor (7-2)
Djamil Chan (11-2) vs. Richard Patishnock (6-3)
Sam Watford (1-0) vs. Dean Hancock (2-0)
Chris Foster (8-4) vs. Felipe Lavandoski (5-0)
Jason Bakanowski (3-2) vs. T.J. Hepburn (4-2)
Pete Rogers (2-3) vs. Mike Mangan (0-3)
Mike Zichelle (7-4) vs. Joe Cronin (19-16)
Matt Bessette (17-7) vs. Keith Richardson (14-6)
Tim Caron (3-0) vs. Justin Sumter (0-0)
Blair Tugman (7-6) vs. Jay Perrin (2-1)