More Bouts Confirmed for Bellator 26

Monday, August 23, 2010



By FCF Staff    Bellator Fighting Championships has confirmed several more bouts for the promotion’s upcoming August 26th event, which will take place at the Kansas City Power & Light District in Kansas City.

In the “local main event”, Rudy Bears (11-5) will rematch fellow veteran Zak Cummings (10-2), who tapped out Bears in the third round at a FM Productions event in February, 2008. Bears is coming off a submission win over Brian Green at Bellator FC 22, while in Cummings’ last outing in June, he dropped a Unanimous Decision loss to Elvis Mutapcic at Midwest Cage Championships 27.

Other bouts that have been confirmed today for the Bellator 26 card include Brian Davidson (5-2) vs. Kevin Croom (1-1), John Ott vs. Brian Imes, and Jeb Chiles (5-1) vs. Demetrius Richards (5-4).

The previously announced Bellator 26 main card includes a welterweight bout between Rory Markham (16-6) and Steve Carl (12), Joe Vega (8-3) vs. Danny Tims (9-2) in opening round action from the promotion’s bantamweight tourney, Mike Hayes (12-3-1) vs. Alexey Oleinik (27-5-1) in a first round heavyweight tournament fight, and Aisling Daly (9-0) versus Lisa Ward (12-5) in women’s tournament competition.

Bellator 26 will be broadcast live on Fox Sports Net.