Bellator 287: Adam Piccolotti vs. Mansour Barnaoui live results
Bellator 287: Adam Piccolotti vs. Mansour Barnaoui live results.
Bellator MMA returns to Italy for Bellator 287, bringing a lightweight main event featuring a veteran talent of the Bellator cage and someone making their debut for the promotion.
After over seven years with the promotion, Adam Piccolotti will be competing in his first Bellator main event, as he takes on Mansour Barnaoui.
Piccolotti last fought in February at Bellator 274, scoring a unanimous decision win over Georgi Karakhanyan. It was his first fight since August 2020 after dealing with a number of injuries.
He was suspended for six months after the fight due to health and safety concerns — a result of a video posted to his social media page, where he mentioned vomiting a number of times in the lead-up to the fight.
While Barnaoui is making his Bellator debut, he has been successful on the regional circuit as a former lightweight champion of Road FC, M-1 and BAMMA. At one point, he fought current UFC fighter Mateusz Gamrot for the then-vacant KSW lightweight championship.
This fight with Piccolotti, however, is Barnaoui’s first since winning the Road FC $1,000,000 lightweight championship tournament in May 2019.
The Bellator 287 co-main event will feature Fabian Edwards, who scored a first-round knockout of Lyoto Machida in May, taking on Charlie Ward, who has won seven of his last eight, including three straight.
Bellator 287 live results [UPDATED LIVE]
Bellator 287: Adam Piccolotti vs. Mansour Barnaoui Main Card (Showtime, 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT)
- Mansour Barnaoui defeated Adam Piccolotti via submission (rear-naked choke), Round 2 – 2:51
- Fabian Edwards defeated Charlie Ward via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
- Tim Wilde defeated Saul Rogers via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
- Justin Gonzales defeated Andrew Fisher via unanimous decision (30-27 x3)
Bellator 287: Adam Piccolotti vs. Mansour Barnaoui Preliminary Card (YouTube, 12:30 p.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT)
- Daniele Scatizzi defeated Davy Gallon via unanimous decision (29-28 x3)
- Costello van Steenis defeated Kamil Oniszczuk via submission (D’Arce choke), Round 2 – 3:02
- Alfie Davies defeated Thibault Gouti via unanimous decision (30-27 x3)
- Chiara Penco defeated Manuela Marconetto via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 30-27)
- Yves Landu defeated Walter Cogliandro via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-27 x2)
- Simon Biyong defeated Dragos Zubco via TKO, Round 2 – 3:36
- Nicolo Solli defeated Bourama Camara via split decision (29-28 x2, 28-29)
- Luke Trainer defeated Lucas Alsina via submission (rear-naked choke), Round 1 – 1:54
- Steven Hill defeated Andrea Fusi via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-27, 30-26)
- Sarvarjon Hamidov defeated Jose Maria Tome via TKO, Round 1 – 1:01