Bellator 209 will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Friday, November 16, with the main event featuring featherweight champ Patricio “Pitbull” Freire” defending his title against challenger Emmanuel Sanchez. The event will not air in the United States until the 16th, but the action takes place in the middle of the night live U.S. time. Freire enters the fight on a two-bout winning streak and defended that belt against Daniel Weichel in his previous bout. Sanchez enters on a four-bout winning streak and gets his first title shot on Thursday night. In the co-main event, welterweights Ryan Couture and Haim Gozali square off. Couture has lost three of four, most recently falling to Saad Awad back in June. We have a MMA betting preview here for the two main events as well as a look at the full card for Bellator 209.
Bellator 209 Betting Preview
Main Event:
- 145 lbs.: Patricio “Pitbull” Freire (27-4) vs. Emmanuel Sanchez (17-3)
Bellator 209 Main Card (9 p.m. ET):
- 170 lbs.: Haim Gozali (8-5) vs. Ryan Couture (11-6)
- 205 lbs: Phil Davis (19-4, 1 NC) vs. Vadim Nemkov (9-2)
- 145 lbs.: Olga Rubin (4-0) vs. Cindy Dandois (12-3)
- 265 lbs.: Adam Keresh (1-0) vs. Kirill Sidelnikov (11-5)
Bellator 209 Undercard:
- 170 lbs.: Khonry Gracie (0-1) vs. Avi Baron (0-1)
- 155 lbs.: Aviv Gozali (0-0) vs. Anton Lazebnov (0-0)
- 155 lbs.: Ido Halfon (0-0) vs. Itay Tratner (1-0)
- 205 lbs.: Nisim Rozalis (0-0) vs. Nika Ben Tuashy (0-0)
- 145 lbs.: Roy Peretz vs. Itsik Rubinov (0-0)
- 170 lbs.: Shimon Smotritsky (4-0) vs. Matan Levi (3-1)
- 170 lbs.: Fadi Haiyadre (0-0) vs. Christos Nicolaou (1-1)
- 205 lbs.: Ram Banano (0-1) vs. Natan Borovytskyi (0-0)
- 145 lbs.: Honor Kelesh (3-0) vs. Andrei Barbarosa (5-6)
- 115 lbs.: Yulia Sachkov (0-1) vs. Viktoria Makarova (0-0)
- 145 lbs.: Kirill Medvedovsky (11-6) vs. Denis Palancica (6-0)
- 135 lbs.: Ejargew Tariku (4-1) vs. Sidemar Honorio (12-6)
- 170 lbs.: Jackie Gosh (7-1) vs. Jamil Ibragimov (1-0)