Bellator Champions Series San Diego Loses Stots vs. Breno, Neal vs. Murtazaliev

Bellator MMA’s upcoming card in San Diego is down two fights.

The promotion recently announced that Raufeon Stots vs. Marcos Breno and Grant Neal vs. Khalid Murtazaliev are now off the Sept. 7 card. As a result, a women’s flyweight clash pitting Sumiko Inaba against Mackenzie Stiller has been elevated to the main draw. A reason for the cancellations was not revealed.

Bellator Champions Series San Diego takes place at Pechanga Arena and is headlined by a lightweight championship clash between Usman Nurmagomedov and Alexandr Shabliy. The event will air in its entirety on Max beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

Stots is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Danny Sabatello at Bellator 301 and is 8-1 since joining the promotion in 2019. Breno, meanwhile, hasn’t competed since April 2023, when he suffered a second-round submission defeat to Sabatello at Bellator 294.

Neal had a three-bout winning streak snapped on March 22, when he dropped a three-round verdict against Luke Trainer at Bellator Belfast. Dagestan’s Murtazliev is 3-1 under the Bellator banner, including a decision win over Tony Johnson in his last outing at Bellator 292.