Gegard Mousasi will defend his undisputed Bellator MMA middleweight championship when he faces undefeated American Top Team export Austin Vanderford in the Bellator 275 main event on Friday at 3Arena in Dublin. Mousasi’s reign now spans 484 days, having begun with his five-round unanimous decision over Douglas Lima on Oct. 29, 2020.
Bellator 275 “Mousasi vs. Vanderford”—which airs live on Showtime at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT—also features a women’s featherweight co-headliner pitting Leah McCourt against Sinead Kavanagh, a bantamweight tilt matching Brian Moore with Jornel Lugo and a pair of featherweight affairs, as Ciaran Clarke faces Aboubakar Tounkara and Khasan Magomedsharipov meets Jose Sanchez.