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Former Bellator champ Eduardo Dantas meets Manny Vazquez at Bellator 215
Less than six months after suffering a leg injury, former Bellator champion Eduardo Dantas is ready to return to the Bellator cage.
Dantas (20-6 MMA, 10-4 BMMA) meets Manny Vazquez (12-3 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) at Bellator 215, which takes place Feb. 15 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. MMAFighting.com was first to report the matchup, which MMAjunkie verified with Bellator officials.
Dantas was last seen in action at last July’s Bellator 202 event, where he met Michael McDonald in the co-headliner. After suffering a TKO in 58 seconds, the Brazilian bantamweight left the cage with two career firsts: His first losing skid, after a title-costing loss to Darrion Caldwell, and his first trip to the operating table.
Despite needing surgery for a broken fibula and ruptured ligaments, Dantas had told MMAjunkie in September that he was recovering remarkably fast and expected to return sooner rather than later. Before his skid, Dantas had racked up four straight wins.
Vazquez, in turn, is returning to Bellator after a victorious one-off in March 2017. The 25-year-old fighter, who had a losing flyweight bout at Dana White’s Contender Series 1 in July, is coming off a win over Shawn West last March.
Bellator 215 airs on Paramount and DAZN following prelims streamed on MMAjunkie. The card is headlined by a heavyweight battle Matt Mitrione and Sergei Kharitonov.
For more on Bellator 215, check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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