Douglas Lima’s road to a fourth run as Bellator MMA welterweight champion begins against an opponent with whom he has grown intimately familiar.
Lima will rematch Michael Page in the Bellator 267 main event on Friday at the SSE Arena in London, where he looks to improve to 2-0 in his head-to-head series between the two longtime contenders. He knocked out Page in the second round of their initial encounter at Bellator 221 in May 2019. However, Lima enters the cage on the heels of a two-fight losing streak. The 33-year-old Brazilian last appeared in the Bellator 260 headliner, where he surrendered the welterweight crown to the unbeaten Yaroslav Amosov in a five-round unanimous decision on June 11.