Bellator 155 Featuring Carvalho/Manhoef & Curran/Karakhanyan

Bellator 155

Rafael Carvalho’s (12-1) first Middleweight title defense will come in the main event of May 20th’s Bellator 155.

Challenging for the title will be long time combat sports vet, knock out artiest Melvin “No Mercy” Manhoef (30-12-1, 2nc), who’s coming off a 1st round KO of Hisaki Kato. Manhoef in all has 28 of 28 stoppage win by knock out, while Carvalho has 10 stoppages and 10 knock outs. Carvalho is 3-0 in Bellator and won the title at Bellator 144, stopping Brandon Halsey in the 2nd round, with a body kick.

The night co-main event will former Bellator Featherweight champion Pat Curran (21-7) against former WSOF Featherweight champion Georgi Karakhanyan (24-5-1). Curran is coming off a Bellator 139, unanimous decision win over Emmanuel Sanchez, which snapped a 2 fight skid. “Paddy Mike” has 7 of 12 stoppage wins via submission. Karakhanyan is 1-1, in this his 2nd stint with Bellator MMA and will be looking to rebound from a unanimous decision loss to Daniel Weichel. The “Insane” one has 14 of 18 stoppage win by way of submission.

Bellator 155 is May 20th at the Century Link Arena in Boise, Idaho.

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