After 14 bantamweight fights under the WEC and Bellator banners, Marcos Galvao is moving up to 145 pounds, and he has no plans to ever return.
Galvao, who won a tournament and captured the belt as a bantamweight in Bellator, will make his featherweight debut in the promotion Friday night against Emmanuel Sanchez. He enters the Bellator 175 co-main event as the first chapter of his new life.
"I have a different focus right now,” Galvao told MMA Fighting. "I can’t fight at 135 anymore. I should have moved up three fights ago, but I was too stubborn.