Queally vs. Mousah Canceled; McCourt vs. Kavanagh Elevated to Co-Main at Bellator 275

There has been a change near the top of Friday’s Bellator 275 card.

A lightweight scrap pitting recent title challenger Peter Queally against Kane Mousah has been canceled after Queally suffered an undisclosed injury. As a result, a women’s featherweight showdown pitting Leah McCourt against Sinead Kavanagh has been elevated to the co-main event.

Promotion officials announced the change on Monday. Bellator 275 takes place at the 3Arena in Dublin on Friday and is headlined by a middleweight title tilt between Gegard Mousasi and Austin Vanderford. The evening’s main card will air on Showtime at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT, while prelims stream on the Bellator MMA YouTube channel, the Showtime Sports YouTube channel and Pluto TV at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.

The rest of the five-bout main card is as follows: Ciaran Clarke vs. Abou Tounkara at featherweight; Khasan Magomedsharipov vs. Jose Sanchez at featherweight and Brian Moore vs. Jornel Lugo at bantamweight.

McCourt vs. Kavanagh is billed as the “biggest Irish female fight ever,” according to a Bellator release. A former Cage Warriors competitor, McCourt enters the matchup on a five-bout winning streak, that includes a unanimous decision triumph over Jessica Borga in her last outing at Bellator 267.

Kavanagh, meanwhile, is coming off a failed bid for 145-pound gold at Bellator 271, where she suffered a first-round KO loss to reigning champ Cristiane Justino. Prior to that, the SBG Ireland representative had earned back-to-back triumphs over Olga Rubin and Katharina Lehner.