{"id":66395,"date":"2017-03-14T23:59:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T04:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=66395"},"modified":"2017-03-15T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T05:00:14","slug":"leandro-higo-gets-title-shot-against-eduardo-dantas-on-belator-177-breaking-ufc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=66395","title":{"rendered":"Leandro Higo Gets Title Shot Against Eduardo Dantas on Bellator 177 &#8211; Breaking UFC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=66395\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=66395\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-66396 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/B177_BKB6_1920x108011-300x169.png\" alt=\"b177_bkb6_1920x108011\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/B177_BKB6_1920x108011-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/B177_BKB6_1920x108011-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/B177_BKB6_1920x108011.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Following an undisclosed injury to Darrion Caldwell, budding superstar Leandro \u201cPitbull\u201d Higo (17-2) will now challenge current champion Eduardo \u201cDudu\u201d Dantas (19-4) in a bantamweight world title fight at Bellator 177: Dantas vs. Higo inside the Budapest Sports Arena on April 14.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, John \u201cMacapa\u201d (21-1-2) will face Daniel Weichel (38-9) in a featherweight contest and Lena Ovchynnikova (11-4) meets Helen Harper (4-1) at 125-pounds. Rounding out the Spike-televised MMA action will be a featherweight matchup pitting Hungarian-born Adam \u201cThe Kid\u201d Borics (5-0) against Anthony \u201cPretty Boy\u201d Taylor (1-2).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bellator 177: Dantas vs. Higo will be broadcast on SPIKE at 9 p.m. ET\/8 p.m. CT, while Bellator Kickboxing 6 will air immediately following the MMA portion of the event, beginning at 11pm ET\/10pm CT.<\/p>\n<p>Complete Bellator 177: Dantas vs. Higo Main Card:<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight World Title Bout: Eduardo Dantas (19-4) vs. Leandro Higo (17-2)<\/p>\n<p>Featherweight Feature Bout: Daniel Weichel (38-9) vs. John \u201cMacapa\u201d Teixeira (21-1-2)<\/p>\n<p>Flyweight Feature Bout: Lena Ovchynnikova (11-4) vs. Helen Harper (4-1)<\/p>\n<p>Featherweight Feature Bout: Anthony Taylor (1-2) vs. Adam Borics (5-0)<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary Card:<\/p>\n<p>Featherweight Preliminary Bout: Brian Moore (9-5) vs. Ludovit Klein (6-0)<\/p>\n<p>Lightweight Preliminary Bout: Mate Kertesz (3-0) vs. Adam Polgar (10-8)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQKH-O-2o7s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an undisclosed injury to Darrion Caldwell, budding superstar Leandro \u201cPitbull\u201d Higo (17-2) will now challenge current champion Eduardo \u201cDudu\u201d Dantas (19-4) in a bantamweight world title fight at Bellator 177: Dantas vs. Higo inside the Budapest Sports Arena on April 14. In addition, John \u201cMacapa\u201d (21-1-2) will face Daniel Weichel (38-9) in a featherweight [&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":[16688],"class_list":["post-66395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma-2","tag-leandro-higo-gets-title-shot-against-eduardo-dantas-on-bellator-177-breaking-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66395","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=66395"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}