The defending champion of Bellator in a light heavyweight, Attila Veg, and the temporary title holder in this weight category, Emanuel Newton, will unite belts on March 21, having met in the main event of the Bellator 113 tournament which will take place on the Kansas Star arena in Mulvane, the State of Kansas.
The Unifikatsionny duel becomes a match revenge as in July, 2012 fighters already met in a semi-final of a Summer Series, and Veg won against Newton the separate judicial decision following the results of three rounds. Having knocked out in Travis Viuff's final, Attila Veg came for fight with the champion, Christian M'Pumbu at whom selected a champion belt on Bellator 91 in February of last year. After that Veg was traumatized, and couldn't come for the next protection of a title in this connection the management of Bellator made the decision to play a temporary champion belt between the winner of the eighth season, Emanuel Newton, and the tournament champion of "A summer series", Mohammed "King Mo" Laval. On Bellator 106 Newton won against Laval the unanimous judicial decision and became the interim champion in category to 205 pounds.
"I am ready to return to a cage and to protect the belt", - Vega quotes mmajunkie.com. "In spite of the fact that I won the first fight against Emanuel, I remained is dissatisfied with performance. I was ready, but everything developed not as I planned. Since then both of us became other fighters, and it will be excellent fight"
"I am ready to a revenge", - Newton declared in turn. "Earlier I didn't feel that is ready to become the champion, but my time" now came
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