There will be both a Couture and a Gracie competing on Bellator’s first New York card.
Ryan Couture and Neiman Gracie have been added to the Bellator 180 event June 24 at Madison Square Garden, the promotion announced Tuesday. Couture will meet Haim Gozali in the feature fight of the Spike.com Bellator 180 prelims, while Gracie faces David Marfone on the Bellator 180 main card on Spike.
Couture (10-5) will make the jump up to welterweight for the first time. He has dropped two straight under the Bellator banner.