Multiple Additions to Bellator 167 Including 2 Rematches
An injury to Pat Curran, has led to the rematch between Patricky “Pitbull” Freire & Derek Campos being named main event of the 2nd night of Bellator Double Header.
Their first match-up saw Freire score a 2nd round TKO victory at Bellator 117, back in April of 2014. Freire has since went 3-3 and is coming off a 1st round knock out loss to Bellator Lightweight Champion, Michael Chandler. Campos is 3-2 since the loss with consecutive wins over Melvin Guillard (ko) and Djamil Chan (ud).
John Teixeira, who’s on a 5 fight win streak, had expected to face Pat Curran, will instead tangle with former RFA Champion Justin Lawrence, who’s won 5 of 6; comng off a 2nd round TKO of Isao Kobayashi.
The main card will also see a rematch from Bellator 159 as Darrion Caldwell will look to avenge his 3rd round submission loss to Joe Taimanglo, who’s on a 4 fight win streak; but did miss weight in their first meeting.
The below noted prelims have all been recently added.
Bellator 167 is December 3rd at the Winstar World Resort & Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma.
Spike Tv Main Card:
LW: Patricky “Pitbull” Freire (16-8) vs. Derek Campos (17-6)
WFlyW:Ilima MacFarlane (4-0) vs. Emily Ducote (4-1)
WW:Chidi Njokuani (15-4, 1 NC) vs. Andre Fialho (7-0)
FW: John Teixeira (20-1-2) vs. Justin Lawrence (9-3)
BW: Darrion Caldwell (9-1) vs. Joe Taimanglo (23-6-1)
Online Prelims
LHW: Jarod Trice (0-0) vs. Brandon Lee (4-1)
WW: Abdul Razak Al Hassan (5-0) vs. Dakota Cochrane (26-10)
LW: Jonathan Gary (11-6) vs. Aaron Roberson (5-4)
FW: Brandon Philips (6-2) Stephen Banaszak (5-5)
WW:Justin Patterson (7-1) vs. Codale Ford (11-8)
WW: Fernando Gonzalez (Debut) vs. Chris Hicks (3-8)