Bellator Champions Series 4: Nurmagomedov vs. Shabliy (also known as Bellator Champions Series San Diego) is a mixed martial arts event produced by Bellator MMA, that will take place on September 7, 2024, at the Pechanga Arena in San Diego, California, United States.
Fight Card
Main card (MAX / DAZN)
Lightweight Usman Nurmagomedov (c) vs. Alexandr Shabliy Lightweight Championship
Welterweight Lorenz Larkin vs. Levan Chokheli Welterweight title eliminator
Middleweight Douglas Lima vs. Aaron Jeffery
Lightweight Yancy Medeiros vs. Jora Ayvazyan
Women's Flyweight Sumiko Inaba vs. Mackenzie Stiller
Preliminary Card (MAX)
Middleweight Jordan Newman vs. Imamshafi Aliev
Welterweight Herman Terrado vs. Masayuki Kikuiri
Bantamweight Bryce Meredith vs. John MaCalolooy
Heavyweight Josh Hokit vs. Sean Rose
Women's Strawweight Aysia Cortez vs. Ashley Thiner
Background
The event will mark the promotion's third visit to San Diego and first since Bellator 300 in October 2023.
The event is expected to be headlined by a Bellator Lightweight World Championship bout between current champion Usman Nurmagomedov and Alexandr Shabliy. The pair was previously expected to headline at Bellator Champions Series 2, but Nurmagomedov withdrew from the event due to injury.
Roughly a two-week before the card there are fight changes made:
On August 29, it was announced that two bouts between Raufeon Stots vs. Marcos Breno and Grant Neal vs. Khalid Murtazaliev were removed from the event for unknown reasons.
Keri-Taylor Melandez was scheduled to face Sumiko Inaba in a women's flyweight bout, but she withdrew due to knee injury and was replaced by Mackenzie Stiller.
