Bellator 283: Lima vs. Jackson is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by Bellator MMA that will take place on July 22, 2022 at Emerald Queen Casino and Hotel in Tacoma, Washington, United States.
Fight Card
Main Card (Showtime)
Welterweight Douglas Lima vs. Jason Jackson
Lightweight Sidney Outlaw vs. Tofiq Musayev
Lightweight Usman Nurmagomedov vs. Chris Gonzalez
Welterweight Lorenz Larkin vs. Mukhamed Berkhamov
Heavyweight Davion Franklin vs. Marcelo Golm
Preliminary Card (Youtube/Pluto TV)
Middleweight Romero Cotton vs. Dalton Rosta
Women's Flyweight Veta Arteaga vs. Vanessa Porto
Featherweight Kevin Boehm vs. Akhmed Magomedov
Lightweight Gadzhi Rabadanov vs. Bobby King
Welterweight Roman Faraldo vs. Luis Iniguez
Bantamweight Jaylon Bates vs. Mark Coates
Catchweight (160 lb) Archie Colgan vs. Bryan Nuro
Background
Visiting the state of Washington for the first time, the main event was to feature reigning Bellator Lightweight World Champion Patricky Pitbull taking on the challenger Sidney Outlaw. Patricky avenged a doctor stoppage loss to Peter Queally to capture the vacant lightweight title in November, while Outlaw has won his last two bouts in Bellator against Myles Jury and Adam Piccolotti after suffering a loss to former champion Michael Chandler. On July 4, it was announced that Patricky had substained an injury and that the bout would be moved to a later date. The next day, after Piccolotti pulled out of his bout against Tofiq Musayev, Sidney Outlaw and Tofiq Musayev were booked against each other in the co-main.
The co-main event was to feature former Bellator Welterweight World Champion Douglas Lima taking on Jason Jackson. The bout was initially scheduled for May 13, 2022 at Bellator 281. However, due to unknown reasons, the bout was pulled from the event and was rescheduled for this event. After the main event between Patricky and Outlaw was scrapped and the reshuffling of the bouts, Lima vs. Jackson was upgraded to the main event and 5 rounds.
A light heavyweight bout between Viktor Nemkov and Jose Augusto was scheduled for this event, however due to a injury to Nemkov, the bout was scrapped.
A lightweight bout between Justin Montalvo and Vladimir Tokov was scheduled for this event, however due to an injury to Tokov, he pulled out of the bout and was replaced by Archie Colgan. Colgan instead faced Bryan Nuro in a 160 lb catchweight bout.
A featherweight bout between Kai Kamaka III and Akhmed Magomedov was scheduled for this event. Kamaka however pulled out of the bout due to unknown reasons.
