Saul Rogers
Four more fights have been added to Bellator’s return to London next month.
Jeremy Petley (12-8-1 MMA, 2-0 BMMA) meets Saul Rogers (12-2 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) and Pedro Carvalho (7-3 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) takes on Daniel Crawford (10-1 MMA, 0-0 BMMA), both at featherweight. And Kevin Fryer (6-2 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) will take on Costello van Steenis (9-1 MMA, 1-0 BMMA), and Vladimir Filipovic (10-2 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) meets Anatoly Tokov (25-2 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) in a pair of middleweight fights. A Bellator official told MMAjunkie of the fight bookings today.
Bellator 200 takes place May 25 at The SSE Arena in London. The card airs via same-day tape delay on Paramount.
Canada’s Petley was mired in a four-fight skid. But he has rebounded with back-to-back wins, both under the Bellator banner. He took a unanimous decision from Chase Morton at Bellator 179 and won a split call against Lewis Monarch at Bellator 191 in December.
Rogers, from England, will be looking to rebound from a submission loss in March 2017 that snapped a six-fight winning streak. His resume includes a 3-0 record under the Cage Warriors banner. But he perhaps is most notable for his appearance on Season 22 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” on which he was coached by Conor McGregor and reached the semifinals.
Fryer, from England, has won five straight fights and has all six of his career wins by stoppage. Van Steenis, a 25-year-old from the Netherlands, made his promotional debut at Bellator 185 this past October in Connecticut and picked up a first-round TKO against Steve Skrzat to run his winning streak to three.
Filipovic’s fight with Tokov will be a rematch. Tokov won a unanimous decision in June 2016 at a Fight Nights Global show in Russia. That ran his winning streak to 17 fights, but he lost in December 2016. He rebounded in February 2017 in his Bellator debut, a TKO win over Francisco France. Filipovic has won three straight since that loss to Tokov and will be making his Bellator debut.
Carvalho, from Portugal, trains at SBG Ireland with the likes of McGregor and up-and-coming Bellator standout James Gallagher. He has back-to-back wins heading into his Bellator debut and five of his seven career wins by stoppage. Crawford will fight in front of his home fans in London for his Bellator debut. He has a four-fight winning streak and seven of his 10 career wins by stoppage.
The Bellator 200 card includes:
- Rafael Carvalho vs. Gegard Mousasi
- Mirko Cro Cop vs. Roy Nelson
- Michael Page vs. David Rickels
- Phil Davis vs. Linton Vassell
- Aaron Chalmers vs. Ash Griffiths
- Kate Jackson vs. Anastasia Yankova
- Chad Griffiths vs. Tom Mearns
- Martyn Harris vs. Ryan Scope
- Kevin Fryer vs. Costello Van Steenis
- Jeremy Petley vs. Saul Rogers
- Pedro Carvalho vs. Daniel Crawford
- Vladimir Filipovic vs. Anatoly Tokov
