Sergio Pettis vs Laufern Stotts
Christian Justino vs Arlene Bryan Covey
Kyoji Horiguchi vs Patrick Meeks
Bellator 279 will be held on April 24, Beijing time in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, and there will be two championship gold belt title battles on the same day, the headline main match is Bellator welterweight champion Sergio Pettis against challenger Raufeon Stots, which is also the first round of this year's Bellator ChickWeight Eight-Man Championship. The joint main event was a second-run match between Bellator women's featherweight champion Cristiane Justino and challenger Arlene Blencowe. There was also a Bellator Welterweight Eight-Man Tournament, where former Bellator welterweight champion and current RIZIN weed champion Kyoji Horiguchi against Patrick Mix.
Sergio Pettis (22-5, 4 K, 4 S) is 28 years old and has a height of 168cm with an arm span of 175cm. He began his professional MMA career in 2011, won the RFA Flyweight Championship in 2013, joined the UFC race at the end of the year with a (9-0) result, and achieved a (9-5) result at the UFC in 2019. He joined the Bellator in 2020 with a (18-5) score and has so far won four consecutive victories at the Bellator, including the May 2021 point-and-shoot victory over Juan Archuleta to win the Bellator's youngweight gold belt, and just defended the title in the fourth leg of last December, KO Horiguchi.
Laufern Stotts (17-1, 3 K, 4 S) is 33 years old and has a height of 170cm with an arm span of 184cm. A NCAA wrestler by background, he began his professional MMA career in 2015, won the VFC welterweight championship in 2017, joined the Bellator tournament in 2019 with a (12-1) result and four consecutive wins, and has won five consecutive victories at Bellator so far, just after a point-point victory over Magomed Magomedov last August.
Christian Justino (25-2, 20 K, 1 S, 1 N) is 36 years old and has a height of 173cm with an arm span of 173cm. He began his professional MMA career in 2005, and after losing his first game, he played a 20-game winning streak until 2018. In 2009, he won the Strykeforce Featherweights Gold Belt and has since defended his title twice. In 2013, he won the Gold Belt of the Invicta FC Featherweights and has since defended his title three times in a row. In 2017, she won the UFC Women's Featherweight Championship Gold Belt and has since defended the title twice in a row. After losing the UFC title in the first KO set by Amanda Nunes in December 2018, he joined the Bellator in 2019 with a score of (20-2,1 N) and has won five consecutive victories at The Bellator so far, including the Bellator Women's Badminton Championship Gold Belt in 2020, and then defended the title for three consecutive times, just in the first set in November last year KO Sinead Kavanagh）。
Arlene Bryan Covey (15-8, 8 K, 1 S) is 38 years old and has a height of 168cm arm span of 168cm. Started her professional MMA career in 2013, won the Storm MMA women's badmintonweight title in 2014, joined the Bellator in 2015 with a (5-4) result and three consecutive wins, and challenged the former Bellator women's badminton champion Julia Budd in 2017 to regret the disagreement and lost the gold belt, then won three consecutive victories, and challenged the Bellator featherweight champion "Mechanical Woman" in 2020. Cristiane Justino was demoted in the second inning and again missed the gold belt. The most recent two-game winning streak was TKO Dayana Silva in the third set last July, just after a point-out victory over Pam Sorenson in November last year.
Kyoji Horiguchi (29-4, 15 K, 3 S) is 31 years old and has a height of 165cm and an arm span of 168cm. He began his professional MMA career in 2010, won the Shudou Chickweight Championship in 2013 and defended the title once, then joined the UFC event with a (11-1) result and five consecutive wins, and achieved (7-1) results at the UFC in 2016, in which demetrious Johnson, who challenged former UFC flyweight champion "Hercules" in 2015, was unfortunately demoted in the fifth set and lost the gold belt. In 2017, he moved to the RIZIN Thor tournament with a score of (18-2) and three consecutive wins, won the RIZIN welterweight championship in 2018, won the Bellator welterweight championship in June 2019, was defeated by Kai Asakura in the first KO set in August, and won the first game TKO in the second game with Asakura In 2020. Sergio Pettis, who had just challenged Bellator's youngweight champion last December, was sadly defeated by KO in the fourth inning.
Patrick Meeks (15-1, 1 K, 11 S) is 28 years old and has an arm span of 182 cm at 180 cm. He began his professional MMA career in 2016, winning the KOTC welterweight championship in 2017 and defending his title twice in a row. After joining the Bellator tournament in 2019 with a (10-0) score and three consecutive wins, he lost his career first defeat in 2020 with Juan Archuleta for the title of Bellator in the welterweight title, and recently won two consecutive wins, and last May in the third set, he was demoted to James Morales in the third set in November. James Gallagher.
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