Bellator MMA has announced its return to Kansas, with Bellator 171 now officially scheduled to take place from the promotion’s familiar confines at the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane on Jan. 27.
The promotion formally announced the event Monday, along with a pair of bouts: a lightweight contest between local favorite “Caveman” David Rickels and Aaron Derrow and a clash of unbeaten middleweights between 7-0 Wichita’s Chris Harris and 5-0 Iowan Jordan Young.
The 27-year-old Rickels is a Bellator MMA staple, a veteran of 15 bouts in the promotion, and six of those last seven contests have come at the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane.