Bellator kicks off the year’s final
month by bringing back-to-back events to Thackerville, Oklahoma. Friday December
2nd WinStar World Casino
and Resort hosts Belator 166 and the following night the promotion promises to pack the
house again with Bellator 167. The Main Event for Friday night’s card is for
the Bantamweight Title. BW Champ, Eduardo Dantas is 8-1 in Bellator. He puts his belt on the line against the man that gave
him that loss, Joe Warren.
Champion,
Eduardo DuDu Dantas has bounced back
since his 10/10/14 loss to Warren by winning two straight and reclaiming the
Title with a win over familiar foe and Nova
Uniao teammate, Marcos Galvao in a five round Unanimous Decision at Bellator 156 (6/17/16). Twenty-seven
year old, Dantas defeated Alexis Vila to become the Bellator Season 5 Bantamweight Tournament Winner (2011). The
following year DuDu submitted Zach
Makovsky with a second round (3:26) Triangle-Choke
to capture the BW Title the first time at Bellator
65. Dantas defended the strap two times, finishing both opponents, (Anthony
Leone 2nd round Rear-Naked-Choke
3/17/14, Marcos Galvao 2nd round KO 2/14/13) before losing a UD
to Warren at Bellator 128. At 5’10”
Dantas will have a sizeable height and reach advantage over Warren. DuDu has finished ten of his eighteen
career wins (6 subs).
A one
fight win streak is all you need when you’re the only guy in Bellator with a win over the champ. The
former Bellator Bantamweight and
Featherweight Champion, Warren seeks to prove that styles make fights and history
will repeat itself in his rematch with Dantas. Warren has a strong history in
Greco-Roman Wrestling, Gold Medalist in 2006 Pan American Games and NCAA
D-1 All-American are just a couple of the Forty year-old’s achievements.
Warren lost the Title he’d taken from Dantas (10/10/14) last time to Marcos
Galvao by second round Knee-Bar
(0:45) at Bellator 135 (3/27/15). He
bounced back with a UD win over contender, LC Davis (9/25/15). However Warren
was choked to sleep earlier this year (3/4/16) by Darrion Caldwell’s First
Round (3:23) Rear-Naked-Choke at Bellator 151. In Warren’s last effort (9/16/16)
at Bellator 161 he stopped Sirwan
Kakai with a Third Round (1:04) Guillotine-Choke
to set up the rematch for the belt.
Undefeated,
AJ Mercenary McKee has fought all
five of his Pro bouts with Bellator.
More importantly, all five of the Twenty-one year-old’s wins have been by
stoppage (3 KO/TKO, 2 Sub) in the First Round. The Long Beach native has been
busy since turning Pro in April of 2015. In his last fight, Mercenary caught Cody Walker with a Guillotine-Choke just thirty-two seconds
into the contest at Bellator 160. In
April McKee displayed his diverse skill set with a TKO of Danilo Belluardo at
2:44 of the opening frame. McKee had an eight fight (7-1) amateur career as
well, dating back to 2012. He was originally scheduled to face 13-3 Emmanuel Sanchez.
Bucksport, Maine’s Ray All
Business Wood steps up on short notice to face McKee in the Featherweight
fight. 7-2 Wood is eager to return to action following a First Round Sub loss
to Adam Piccolotti in May (both Wood’s losses are by submission). The loss
halted a two fight win streak, including a First Round TKO of Chris Jones at Belator 151 (3/4/16) earlier this year.
Twenty-seven year old Wood has only been to decision once, in his nine fight
pro career, an April win over Brandon Phillips.
Last
March Marcos Galvao avenged a loss from his Bellator
debut and won the BW title with one, award-winning Knee-Bar of Joe Warren in the Second Round at Bellator 135. 17-7 Galvao looks to get back in the Title picture
when he faces Thirty-six year-old, LC Davis. Teammate, Eduardo Dantas took the
Belt Galvao won from Warren with a UD at Bellator
156. The loss broke a four fight win streak (2TKO, 1Sub). This is Galvao’s
Thirteenth fight (8-4) with the promotion.
Kansas
City’s LC Davis has been a pro fighter for over a decade, having competed for: IFL, Affliction, TitanFC, WEC in
addition to Bellator. The former Victory FC BW Champ has finished fifteen
of his twenty-three wins early. A UD loss at Bellator 143 to Joe Warren halted a three fight win streak in Bellator’s BW Division. Davis looks to
get back to his winning ways in this BW contenders fight with Galvao.
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