Bellator 272 fight card: Bantamweight champion Sergio Pettis to defend title against Kyoji Horiguchi

Sergio Pettis is about to defend his bantamweight title. The lately topped champ has a date and opponent for his first title protection because the Milwaukee native will tackle former titleholder Kyoji Horiguchi at Bellator 272 on Dec. 3. The pair will meet in the primary occasion set to be hosted on the Mohegan Solar Area in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Pettis earned the title with a grueling determination win over champion Juan Archuleta in Could. Pettis, 28, has gained 4 straight fights, together with three in a row contained in the Bellator cage to say the belt. He surprisingly left UFC after taking a choice in a flyweight bout over Tyson Nam in September 2019 and has since regarded unimaginable again at 135 kilos.

Horiguchi, in the meantime, returns to Bellator after an prolonged run with RIZIN. The Japanese celebrity made one look beforehand within the Bellator cage, incomes a choice over Darrion Caldwell to say the bantamweight crown in a champion vs. champion combat — the second time he had beat Caldwell in a six-month span. Horiguchi, nevertheless, was pressured to vacate the belt when he suffered an harm just some months later. 

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Horiguchi has only one loss in his 15 bouts since 2015.