Brandon Halsey will meet John Salter in a middleweight bout at Bellator 156 on June 17.
Promotion officials announced the matchup on Tuesday. Bellator 156 takes place at SaveMart Center in Fresno, Calif., and is headlined by a bantamweight title rematch between Marcos Galvao and Eduardo Dantas. The evening’s main card airs on Spike TV at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT.
Halsey won the Bellator middleweight strap with a first-round submission of Alexander Shlemenko in September 2014. He was then stripped of the title for failing to make weight prior to a technical knockout triumph against Kendall Grove at Bellator 137.