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Bellator Champions Series: Dublin adds Yancy Medeiros vs. Peter Queally

The Bellator Champions Series: Dublin card in June continues to take shape with the addition of Yancy Medeiros vs. Peter Queally.

Bellator’s upcoming trip to Ireland is continuing to take shape.

On June 22, Bellator Champions Series: Dublin takes place at 3Arena, an event headlined by a welterweight title fight between champ Jason Jackson and challenger Ramazan Kuramagomedov.

The summer event continues to take shape as the promotion announced the addition of a lightweight bout between [autotag]Yancy Medeiros[/autotag] and [autotag]Peter Queally[/autotag]. It’s a unique matchup in that both fighters are coming off no contest results in their previous outings.

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Medeiros (12-8 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) would have two consecutive wins on his record, but his Bellator 295 submission win over Charlie Leary was later overturned due to a failed drug test. Before that, the Hawaiian picked up a unanimous decision win in his Bellator debut over Emmanuel Sanchez at Bellator 279.

Queally (13-8-1 MMA, 2-4 BMMA) was kicked illegally just 26 seconds into his Bellator 299 bout against Daniele Miceli, leading to a no contest. In June, he will get the opportunity to return to the win column on home soil, which has not produced favorable outcomes despite having the crowd on his side. Queally’s last four outings, including the no contest against Miceli, were at 3Arena, but he could not record a victory.

With the addition, the current Bellator Champions Series: Dublin lineup includes:

Jason Jackson vs. Ramazan Kuramagomedov – for welterweight title
Yancy Medeiros vs. Peter Queally

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Bellator 299 video: Daniele Miceli vs. Peter Queally ends in no contest after illegal head kick ruled accidental

It’s not every day that a kick to the head is ruled accidental, yet that’s what happened at Bellator 299.

Unfortunately for fans, the promotion, and even [autotag]Daniele Miceli[/autotag] and [autotag]Peter Queally[/autotag], no one got what they wanted.

Miceli (11-5 MMA, 0-1 BMMA) vs. Queally (13-8-1 MMA, 2-4 BMMA), which closed out the preliminary card of Saturday’s Bellator 299 at 3Arena in Dublin, ended in a no contest after 26 seconds of action into the first round thanks to unfortunate circumstances.

Miceli dropped Queally to the ground with a leg kick and then threw a kick to Queally’s head while he was still downed but on the way up. The kick didn’t connect cleanly, but it did graze his eye. Given it was an illegal kick with Queally’s hand still touching the mat, the referee immediately stopped the action. Queally wasn’t able to continue given damage to his eye, so the fight was ruled a no contest. The referee found Miceli’s kick to be accidental.

You can watch a video of the replay below:

This was ruled an unintentional illegal kick to the head by Daniele Miceli on Peter Queally, resulting in a no contest after just 26 seconds into Round 1.

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For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for Bellator 299.

Matchup Roundup: New UFC and Bellator fights announced in the past week (June 26-July 2)

All the UFC and Bellator fight announcements that were first reported or confirmed by MMA Junkie in the past week.

MMA fight announcements are hard to follow. With so many outlets and channels available, it’s nearly impossible to organize.

But here at MMA Junkie, we’ve got your back.

Each week, we’ll compile all the newly surfaced fights in one spot. Every Monday, expect a feature listing everything you might have missed from the UFC or Bellator.

Here are the fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie or officially announced by a promotion from June 26-July 2.

Bellator 299 adds four fights with European fan favorites to Dublin lineup

The lineup for Bellator’s fall return to Ireland continues to build with the addition of four new matchups.

Dublin’s own [autotag]Peter Queally[/autotag] (13-8-1 MMA, 2-4 BMMA) will return to fight in front of his home fans in a welterweight bout against Italy’s [autotag]Daniele Miceli[/autotag] (10-5 MMA, 0-1 BMMA). Promotion officials announced the new booking Monday for Bellator 299, which takes place Sept. 23 at 3Arena in Dublin. The main card will air on Showtime following prelims on MMA Junkie.

In addition, Bellator officials announced the inclusion of featherweight fights between unbeaten Irishman [autotag]Ciaran Clarke[/autotag] (7-0 MMA, 7-0 BMMA) and [autotag]Przemyslaw Gorny[/autotag] (5-3 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) and [autotag]Darragh Kelly[/autotag] (4-0 MMA, 3-0 BMMA) vs. [autotag]Jelle Zeegers[/autotag] (2-2 MMA, 0-0 BMMA), plus [autotag]Charlie Ward[/autotag] (10-6 MMA, 7-3 BMMA) vs. [autotag]Gregory Babene[/autotag] (22-11 MMA, 4-0 BMMA).

Queally will attempt to snap a three-fight skid. After a May 2021 win over Patricky Freire in Connecticut due to a doctors stoppage, the pair rematched later that year for the vacant lightweight title. But when they ran it back, Freire knocked out Queally in the second round and started his current skid ahead of losses to Benson Henderson and Bryce Logan.

Miceli got back in the win column this past November with a first-round submission win in France. After a loss in his lone Bellator fight in 2016, he has bounced around the European regional circuit.

Clarke is one of Bellator’s homegrown prospects. The 28-year-old Irishman is unbeaten in his pro career and has racked up three rear-naked choke wins in his first seven fights, all for Bellator. Gorny will make his Bellator debut on the strength of three straight wins, including two straight stoppages in 2022.

Kelly has three of his first four pro wins by stoppage, including a D’Arce choke finish of Andre Ferreira at a Clan Wars event earlier this month. Zeegers, from the Netherlands, will be making his Bellator debut.

The 42-year-old Ward will try to get back on track after back-to-back decision losses to Fabian Edwards and, most recently, Mike Shipman in February at Bellator 291. Prior to that, the longtime fighter had won seven of eight under the Bellator banner. France’s Babene is a perfect 4-0 for Bellator, including a first-round knockout of Shipman at Bellator 280 in 2022.

With the additions, the Bellator 299 lineup in Dublin now includes:

MAIN CARD (Showtime, 4 p.m. ET)

Champ Johnny Eblen vs. Fabian Edwards – for middleweight title
Pedro Carvalho vs. Aaron Pico
Sara Collins vs. Sinead Kavanagh
Mads Burnell vs. Daniel Weichel

PRELIMINARY CARD (MMA Junkie/YouTube, 11 a.m. ET)

Daniele Miceli vs. Peter Queally
Gregory Babene vs. Charlie Ward
Ciaran Clarke vs. Przemyslaw Gorny
Kenny Mokhonoana vs. Josh O’Connor
Luke Trainer vs. Laurynas Urbonavicius
Brian Moore vs. Otto Rodrigues
Darragh Kelly vs. Jelle Zeegers
Roman Debienne vs. Nicolo Solli
Mark Ewen vs. Noah Gugnon
Chiara Penco vs. Mackenzie Stiller

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for Bellator Dublin.

Bellator 291 predictions: Who’s picking Logan Storley to upset Yaroslav Amosov?

Check out our staff members’ picks for the Bellator 291 main card in Dublin, featuring Yaroslav Amosov vs. Logan Storley.

	Amosov vs. Storley	Carvalho vs. Kennedy	Logan vs. Queally	Harding vs. Kavanagh	Clarke vs. Sinis
MMA Junkie readers’ consensus picks 15-11	Amosov (73%)	Kennedy (80%)	Queally (83%)	Kavanagh (77%)	Clarke (90%)
Matt Erickson 18-8	Storley	Kennedy	Queally	Harding	Clarke
Matthew Wells @MrMWells 17-9	Amosov	Kennedy	Queally	Kavanagh	Clarke
George Garcia @MMAjunkieGeorge 17-9	Amosov	Kennedy	Queally	Kavanagh	Clarke
Ken Hathaway @kenshathaway 16-10 2018, 2022 Champion	Amosov	Kennedy	Queally	Kavanagh	Clarke
Simon Samano @SJSamano 16-10	Amosov	Carvalho	Queally	Kavanagh	Clarke
Nolan King @mma_kings 15-11/em>	Amosov	Kennedy	Queally	Kavanagh	Clarke
Brian Garcia @thegoze 15-11 2017 Champion	Storley	Kennedy	Queally	Kavanagh	Clarke
Farah Hannoun @Farah_Hannoun 14-12	Amosov	Kennedy	Queally	Kavanagh	Clarke
Danny Segura @dannyseguratv 14-12	Amosov	Kennedy	Queally	Kavanagh	Clarke
Abbey Subhan @kammakaze 12-14	Amosov	Kennedy	Queally	Kavanagh	Clarke
Mike Bohn @MikeBohn 12-14 2014 Champion	Amosov	Kennedy	Queally	Kavanagh	Clarke

Bellator 291 predictions: Who’s picking Logan Storley to upset Yaroslav Amosov?

Bellator is in Ireland with one of the most dominant fighters in MMA at the top of the bill.

Bellator 291 takes place Saturday at 3Arena in Dublin. The main card airs on Showtime following prelims on MMA Junkie.

(Click here to open a PDF of the staff picks grid in a separate window.)

In the main event, welterweight champion [autotag]Yaroslav Amosov[/autotag] (26-0 MMA, 7-0 BMMA) meets interim champ [autotag]Logan Storley[/autotag] (14-1 MMA, 9-1 BMMA) in a title unification bout. The two fought in late 2020, when Amosov took a split decision. He won the title his next time out.

Amosov is slight favorite at -165 at Tipico Sportsbook; the comeback on Storley is +130. But our 11 editors, writers, radio hosts and videographers are siding with Amosov, who has MMA’s longest active winning streak, at a big 9-2 clip.

In the co-feature, [autotag]Pedro Carvalho[/autotag] (13-6 MMA, 6-3 BMMA) takes on [autotag]Jeremy Kennedy[/autotag] (18-3 MMA, 3-1 BMMA) at featherweight. Kennedy nearly is a 3-1 favorite, and he’s a near-unanimous pick at 10-1 from our staff members.

Also on the main card, [autotag]Peter Queally[/autotag] (13-7-1 MMA, 2-3 BMMA) is just a -150 favorite at lightweight in front of his home fans against [autotag]Bryce Logan[/autotag] (12-7 MMA, 0-4 BMMA), but Queally is one of our two unanimous picks on the main card at 11-0.

[autotag]Janay Harding[/autotag] (6-6 MMA, 3-4 BMMA) and [autotag]Sinead Kavanagh[/autotag] (8-5 MMA, 5-5 BMMA) meet in a women’s featherweight fight, and each is hoping a win will lead to a title shot. Kavanagh is more than a 2-1 favorite on her home turf, and she has a near-unanimous edge in the picks at 10-1.

And to open the main card, [autotag]Ciaran Clarke[/autotag] (6-0 MMA, 6-0 BMMA) takes on late-notice replacement and promotional newcomer [autotag]Leonardo Sinis[/autotag] (11-5-1 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) at featherweight. Clarke is the biggest favorite on the main card at more than 4-1, and not surprisingly is our other unanimous pick.

In the MMA Junkie consensus picks, Amosov (73 percent), Kennedy (80 percent), Queally (83 percent), Kavanagh (77 percent) and Clarke (90 percent) are the choices.

Check out all the picks above.

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for Bellator 291.

Peter Queally wants to settle trilogy with Patricky Freire: ‘I think I could beat him if we fought again’

Peter Queally has a trilogy bout in mind after Bellator 291.

DUBLIN – [autotag]Peter Queally[/autotag] has a trilogy bout in mind after Bellator 291.

Queally (13-7-1 MMA, 2-3 BMMA) takes on Bryce Logan (12-7 MMA, 0-4 BMMA) on Saturday’s main card at 3Arena. The main card airs on Showtime following prelims on MMA Junkie.

Queally will look to snap a two-fight losing skid in which one of those setbacks came in a title-fight loss to [autotag]Patricky Freire[/autotag] at Bellator 270. Queally had already beaten Freire before when he scored a TKO doctor’s stoppage win at Bellator 258, so with their series tied at one-a-piece, Queally would like to settle that score.

“I’d like to fight Patricky again,” Queally told MMA Junkie and other reporters at Bellator 291 media day. “I know I fought him twice. … But that’s probably the one that springs to mind. I feel like he beat me fair and square in the second one, but I feel like it was kind of a mistake that he capitalized on really expertly. So I think I’d like to fight him again and kind of settle that one. It’s 1-1, and I think I could beat him if we fought again.”

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The SBG Ireland fighter’s past three fights came against former WEC and UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson, and back-to-back against Freire.

Logan is a much less notable name for Queally, but he understands the position he’s in.

“Of course it’s a step down,” Queally said. “My last three fights have been against three world champions. So it had to have been a step down no matter who it was gonna be. But he’s a good opponent, I’m ready for him, it’s gonna be a good fight. So, it was always gonna be a step down no matter who it was.”

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for Bellator 291.

Bellator 291 pre-event facts: Yaroslav Amosov’s streak best among major MMA champions

Check out all the facts and figures about Bellator 291, where champ Yaroslav Amosov returns to put his 26-fight winning streak in the line.

The second Bellator offering of the year lands on Saturday with Bellator 291, which takes place at 3Arena in Dublin, with a main card set to air on Showtime following prelims streamed on MMA Junkie.

The promotion’s undisputed welterweight champion will be decided in the main event. Current titleholder [autotag]Yaroslav Amosov[/autotag] (26-0 MMA, 7-0 BMMA) will return from a layoff that included fighting in the war for his native Ukraine to take on interim champ [autotag]Logan Storley[/autotag] (14-1 MMA, 9-1 BMMA). The pair fought once before as contenders, with Amosov taking a split decision at Bellator 252 in November 2020.

For more on the numbers behind the headliner, as well as the rest of the card, check below for MMA Junkie’s pre-event facts about Bellator 291.

Matchup Roundup: New UFC and Bellator fights announced in the past week (Nov. 28-Dec. 4)

All the UFC and Bellator fight announcements that were first reported or confirmed by MMA Junkie in the past week.

MMA fight announcements are hard to follow. With so many outlets and channels available, it’s nearly impossible to organize.

But here at MMA Junkie, we’ve got your back.

Each week, we’ll compile all the newly surfaced fights in one spot. Every Monday, expect a feature listing everything you might have missed from the UFC or Bellator.

Here are the fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie from Nov. 28-Dec. 4.

Bellator 285 post-event facts: Yoel Romero makes history with late knockout

Check out the numbers behind Bellator 285, where Yoel Romero added to one of the most unique records in MMA.

Bellator returned from a six-week hiatus on Saturday with Bellator 285, which went down at 3Arena in Dublin and featured a 13-fight lineup on the card.

The main event featured a dominant performance from former UFC and WEC lightweight champion [autotag]Benson Henderson[/autotag] (30-11 MMA, 7-6 BMMA), who shut down Ireland’s [autotag]Peter Queally[/autotag] (13-7 MMA, 2-3 BMMA) over the course of five rounds to win a unanimous decision and begin his late-career push toward the title.

For more on the numbers behind the headliner, as well as the rest of the event, check below for MMA Junkie’s post-event facts from Bellator 285.

Benson Henderson def. Peter Queally at Bellator 285: Best photos

Check out these photos from Benson Henderson vs. Peter Queally at Bellator 285 in Dublin, Ireland.

Check out these photos from Benson Henderson’s unanimous decision victory over Peter Queally in the main event of Bellator 285 at 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland. (Photos courtesy of Lucas Noonan, Bellator MMA)