Bellator MMA plans so as to add one other division for the primary time since 2014.
The promotion is predicted to launch a males’s flyweight division within the coming days, although an actual date of implementation will not be but identified.
A number of individuals with information of the plans not too long ago knowledgeable MMA Junkie of the promotion’s impending launch however requested to stay nameless because the promotion has but to make an official announcement.
Males’s flyweight would be the promotion’s tenth lively weight class, placing them at two lower than the UFC, which has 12 (additionally has girls’s strawweight and girls’s bantamweight), and 4 greater than PFL (which has six).
Whereas a roster has but to be decided, high Bellator bantamweight contender Kyoji Horiguchi has steadily competed within the weight class all through his profession and will function one of many division’s early contenders. Horiguchi was presupposed to compete in an uncommon flyweight bout for Bellator in April, however his opponent Ray Borg withdrew on account of weight administration points.
The promotion’s subsequent scheduled present is Bellator 297, which takes place June 16 in Chicago and options two title fights: Vadim Nemkov vs. Yoel Romero and Sergio Pettis vs. Patricio Freire.
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