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.