On October 23 at the "VTB Arena" in Moscow, Bellator 269 mixed martial arts evening will be held, which will be the first event of the promotion in Russia. The tournament will be headlined by the bout between legendary heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko and American Timothy Johnson.
The second highest ranked event will be the bout between former heavyweight champion of the organization Vitaly Minakov and Said Soum.
Also worth highlighting is the Russian welterweight division clash between former champion Andrey Koreshkov and former UFC fighter Rustam Khabilov. Their fight will open the main card.
The start of preliminary fights is on October, 23 at 18:00 Moscow/Kiev time. The tournament will be streamed live by pay-per-view video service Okko Sport.
As of October 10, the tournament card looks as follows:
Fedor Emelianenko - Timothy Johnson
Vitaly Minakov - Said Souma
Usman Nurmagomedov - Patrick Pietila
Anatoly Tokov - Sharaf Davlatmurodov
Andrey Koreshkov - Rustam Khabilov
Gaji Rabadanov - Alexander Belykh
Aidan Lee - Alexander Osetrov
Alexey Shurkevich - Christian Eckerlin
Grachik Bozinian - Ross Houston
Nikita Mikhailov - Brian Moore
Irina Alexeeva - Stephanie Page
Darina Mazdyuk - Katarina Sadura
Vladimir Tokov - Aymard Gui
