This Friday live from The Winstar World Casino and Resort Bellator MMA presents Bellator 146 Kato x Manhoef. The main event is a highly anticipated Middleweight fight between knockout artists Hisaki Kato and Melvin Manhoef. The card also features many fights who are tapped to be the future of their divisions so let’s go over the card and see who’s touching them up Friday.
Middleweight: Hisaki ‘The Japanese Musketeer’ Kato (5-1) vs Melvin ‘No Mercy’ Manhoef (29-12-1)
Featherweight: Bubba ‘The Highlight Kid’ Jenkins (9-2) vs Jordan ‘Pretty Boy’
Parsons (11-1)
Light Heavyweight: Houston ‘The Assassin’ Alexander (16-12-1) vs Guilherme Viana (6-2)
Welterweight: Chidi ‘Chidi Bang Bang’ Njokuani (13-4) vs Ricky ‘The Sniper’ Rainey (11-3)
Lightweight: Brandon Girtz (13-4) vs Derek ‘The Stallion’ Campos (15-5)
Middleweight: Ben ‘The Hunter’ Reiter (16-0-1) vs Francisco ‘Kiko’ France (12-3)
Featherweight: Israel ‘El Rojo’ Giron (18-4) vs Mark ‘Tricky’ Dickman (10-2)
Women’s Featherweight: Arlene ‘Angerfist’ Blencowe (6-5) vs Gabrielle ‘Gabanator’ Holloway (5-3)
Welterweight: Andre ‘Chatuba’ Santos (37-10) vs Josh ‘The Dentist’ Neer (36-14-1)
Women’s Featherweight: Julia ‘The Jewel’ Budd (7-2) vs Roberta ‘Crusher’ Paim Rovel (4-0)
Heavyweight: Zach Rosol (1-0) vs Alonzo Menifield (0-0)
Catchweight (140lbs): Stephen ‘The Fear’ Banaszak (4-5) vs George ‘Constantine’ Pacurariu (10-4)
Featherweight: Treston Thomison (8-3) vs Chris ‘Lionheart’ Jones (9-3)
Bantamweight: Eli ‘Tomahawk’ Tamez (9-0) vs Roshaun Jones (2-3)
Welterweight: Justin ‘The Tactician’ Patterson (6-0) vs Sean ‘Razorback’ Holden (4-1)
Catchweight (190lbs): Bubba ‘The Menace’ McDaniel (25-10) vs Kenyon Jackson (3-2)
This card looks great and is sure to please MMA fans. I will be there press side for these fights and Bellator sure knows how to set up a card. If you have any questions for the fighters tweet them to me @DonTheMMAGuy. My name is Don and for MMAOutisders.com I’ll see you in Thackerville!
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