Woman’s Featherweight Champion to Be Crowned at Bellator 155

The inaugural Bellator Woman’s Featherweight champion will be the winner of Marloes Coenen (23-6) vs. Julia Budd (8-2), set for Bellator 155.

Marloes Coenen hails from the Netherlands and is a former Strikeforce Bantamweight an Featherweight champion. Coenen even fought Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino for the inaugural Invicta Featherweight title, losing via 4^th round TKO. Since signing with Bellator Coenen has submitted Annalisa Bucci and Arlene Blencowe.

Canada’s Julia “The Jewel” Budd has won 6 straight since a November 2011, 1^st round, submission loss to Ronda Rousey. Budd has won her last 3 fights all by unanimous decision, defeating Charmine Tweet at Invicta FC 7; and beating Gabrielle Holloway an Roberta Paim Rovel since joining Bellator.

Bellator 155 is, May 20th at the Century Link Arena in Boise, Idaho; and is headlined by knock out artist Melvin “No Mercy” Manhoef challenging Rafael Carvalho for the Bellator Middleweight Championship.

Spike TV Main Card

Middleweight: Rafael Carvalho (12-1) vs. Melvin Manhoef (30-12-1, 2nc) – Championship

Featherweight: Pat Curran (21-7) vs. Georgi Karakhanyan (24-5-1)

Heavyweight: Dan Charles (10-3) vs. Augusto Sakai (9-0)

Lightweight: Marcin Held (21-4) vs. Dave Jansen (20-3)

Heavyweight: Joey Beltran (17-12) vs. Chase Gormley (12-5)

Spike.com prelims

Featherweight: Marloes Coenen (23-6) vs. Julia Budd (8-2) – Championship

Bantamweight: Tyler Freeland (3-0) vs. Joe Hamilton (3-0)

Flyweight: Veta Arteaga (1-0) vs. Jackie Vandenburgh (0-1)

Featherweight: Hamilton Ash (3-1) vs. Vince Morales (3-1)

Bantamweight: Casey Johnson (4-0) vs. Brendon Raftery(4-2)

Lightweight: Scott Thometz (9-5) vs. Josh Tyler (7-3)

Middleweight: Will Noland (15-6) vs. Sean Powers (9-5)

Bantamweight: Erick Cronkhite (2-1) vs. Ricky Steele (5-0)

Bantamweight: Olly Bradstreet (39-12) vs. Jesse Brock (21-8)