Bellator 291: Amosov vs. Storley 2 (also known as Bellator Dublin) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by Bellator MMA, that will take place on February 25, 2023, at the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland.


Fight Card

Main Card (Showtime)

Welterweight Yaroslav Amosov (c) vs. Logan Storley (ic) Welterweight Championship
Featherweight Pedro Carvalho vs. Jeremy Kennedy
Lightweight Peter Queally vs. Bryce Logan
Women's Featherweight Sinead Kavanagh vs. Janay Harding
Featherweight Ciarán Clarke vs. Leonardos Sinis

Preliminary Card (Youtube/Pluto TV)

Light Heavyweight Karl Moore vs. Maciej Różański
Middleweight Charlie Ward vs. Mike Shipman
Bantamweight Brian Moore vs. Luca Iovine
Featherweight Piotr Niedzielski vs. Richie Smullen
Heavyweight Gokhan Saricam vs. Oleg Popov
Middleweight Norbert Novenyi Jr. vs. Andy Manzolo
Featherweight Khasan Magomedsharipov vs. Rafael Hudson
Featherweight Darragh Kelly vs. Dorval Jordan
Featherweight Asaël Adjoudj vs. Liam McCracken
Women's Flyweight Elina Kallionidou vs. Jena Bishop
Featherweight Kenny Mokhonoana vs. Craig McIntosh
Welterweight Daniele Scatizzi vs. Dmytrii Hrytsenko
Welterweight Steven Hill vs. Joël Kouadja



Background

On February 25, Bellator will host an event in the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland. The event, which will be Bellator's tenth event in the nation, after first hosting there in 2016. The promotion stated that the most recent event broke the 3Arena's attendance record.

A Bellator Welterweight World Championship unification bout between current champion Yaroslav Amosov and interim champion Logan Storley is expected to headline the event. The pair previously met at Bellator 252, where Amosov won via split decision.

A featherweight bout between Ciarán Clarke and Keir Harvie was scheduled for this event, however Harvie pulled out of the bout due to injury two weeks before the event and was replaced by Leonardos Sinis.

A welterweight bout between Oliver Enkamp and Luca Poclit was scheduled for this event, however, Enkamp had to pull out of the bout due to injury.

Ukrainian World Champion Yaroslav Amosov Returns for Unification Bout on Sat. Feb. 25 in Dublin

Welterweight World Champion Yaroslav Amosov (26-0) returns to the BELLATOR cage after the heroic defense of his home country of Ukraine, and is set for a rematch against interim titleist Logan Storley (14-1). Amosov is one of the top fighters in the world and currently holds the longest active unbeaten streak in all of MMA. Perfect through his first 26 professional fights, he is only three wins away from eclipsing retired MMA star Khabib Nurmagomedov’s record of 29 consecutive wins.

Storley, a four-time NCAA D1 All-American wrestler at the University of Minnesota, will look to make the necessary adjustments to spoil Amosov’s entry into the history book and avenge his sole professional blemish when he dropped a tense split decision to the Ukrainian in November 2020. The 30-year-old Kill Cliff FC product is currently riding a three-fight winning streak.

The co-main event of the evening will feature SBG Ireland’s own No. 3-ranked featherweight Pedro “The Game” Carvalho (13-6) of Portugal taking on No. 5-ranked Jeremy “JBC” Kennedy (18-3), a Canadian fighter who trains out of the acclaimed Xtreme Couture gym in Las Vegas. With more than a year of steady trash talking escalating a feud that is ready to boil over, this is a must-watch grudge match.

Also highlighting the SHOWTIME-televised main card is a female featherweight rematch pitting No. 3 featherweight Sinead “KO” Kavanagh (8-5) against New Zealand’s Janay “Hollowpoint” Harding (6-6).



The event’s Eurocentric preliminary card will spotlight several of Ireland’s favorite BELLATOR fighters, as well as a host of top continental prospects and contenders.

Two 2022 Submission of the Year contenders will square off as once-beaten SBG Ireland’s Luca Poclit (8-1) meets fellow unorthodox submission threat Oliver Enkamp (11-3) in a welterweight matchup. Also at 170 pounds, Italy’s Daniele Scatizzi (12-6) will face undefeated Ukrainian Dmytrii Hrytsenko (7-0).

In other thrilling action, No. 9 light heavyweight Karl Moore (10-2) returns to the 3Arena following a dazzling performance against fellow top-10 ranked Karl Albrektsson to face Poland’s Maciej Róźański (14-3), while Wexford, Ireland’s Brian Moore (15-9) looks to similarly build off his BELLATOR 285 momentum when he welcomes Luca Iovine (18-8) to the BELLATOR cage.

Additionally, a pair of fantastic featherweight fights will pit Richie Smullen (9-2-1) returning in a must-see matchup against Piotr Niedzielski (17-4), while French phenom Asaël Adjoudj (4-1) will squares off against scintillating Scotsman Calum Murrie (5-3).

Meanwhile, a duo of middleweights from London Shootfighters will go to work as Mike Shipman (14-4) takes on SBG Ireland’s Charlie Ward (10-5), and hungry Hungarian Norbert Novenyi Jr. (5-0) will put his perfect record on the line against Andy Manzolo (26-9).

Lastly, newly signed BJJ Black Belt Jena Bishop (4-0) makes her BELLATOR debut in a female flyweight fight against Greece’s Elina Kallionidou (9-4).