{"id":62042,"date":"2016-08-04T20:26:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T01:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=62042"},"modified":"2016-08-04T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T01:27:11","slug":"donald-trump-loves-bellator-161-line-up-shocking-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=62042","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Loves Bellator 161 Line Up &#8211; Shocking Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=62042 \" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=62042 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-62043 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/trump_affliction_mma_ufc-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"trump_affliction_mma_ufc\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A flyweight bout pitting Anastasia Yankova (3-0) against Veta Arteaga (2-0) has been added to the SPIKE-televised portion of \u201cBellator 161: Kongo vs. Johnson,\u201d which takes place on September 16 at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The fight joins a main card that features a heavyweight main event pitting French phenom Cheick Kongo (24-10-2) against the streaking Tony Johnson (10-2). Additional main and preliminary contests will be announced shortly.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Doors for the event open at 7:45 p.m. CT local time and the first preliminary bout \u2013 which streams live on Bellator.com and The Bellator Mobile App &#8212; begins at 8:00 p.m. CT. Tickets for the event start at just $25 and can be purchased now at Bellator.com, Ticketmaster, or the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park Box Office.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Yankova will make her second appearance of the year, after garnering the attention of the MMA world with an impressive promotional debut in Italy at \u201cBellator 152: Pitbull vs. Souza.\u201d The Russian submission specialist began her professional career 2-0, before earning her first victory under the direction of Bellator MMA with an impressive first round armbar victory. An avid artist outside of the cage, Yankova hopes to carve out her next masterpiece when she returns to action on Sept. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Since making her professional debut earlier this year, Arteaga has strung together back-to-back wins, including a unanimous decision victory over Jackie Vandenburgh in her promotional debut at \u201cBellator 155: Carvalho vs. Manhoef.\u201d Thus far, each of Arteaga\u2019s first two wins have gone to the judges\u2019 table, leaving the 28-year-old Boise, Idaho native itching for her first career stoppage win.<\/p>\n<p>Updated \u201cBellator 161: Kongo vs. Johnson\u201d Main Card:<\/p>\n<p>Bellator MMA Heavyweight Main Event: Cheick Kongo (24-10-2) vs. Tony Johnson (10-2)<\/p>\n<p>Bellator MMA Flyweight Feature Bout: Anastasia Yankova (3-0) vs. Veta Arteaga (2-0)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U1CTQtJiuss\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flyweight bout pitting Anastasia Yankova (3-0) against Veta Arteaga (2-0) has been added to the SPIKE-televised portion of \u201cBellator 161: Kongo vs. Johnson,\u201d which takes place on September 16 at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park, Texas. The fight joins a main card that features a heavyweight main event pitting French phenom Cheick Kongo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10374],"tags":[15598],"class_list":["post-62042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma-2","tag-donald-trump-loves-bellator-161-line-up-shocking-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62042"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}