Bellator 247 kicks off today from Milan, Italy at 4:00pm ET where the promotion will be making its CBS Sports Network debut. The card suffered a hard blow this week when main event action fighter, Paul Daley, was hospitalized following weight cutting complications — and his welterweight headliner with the ever-scrappy Derek Anderson was cancelled.
The show must go on, and now Bellator’s women’s flyweight division will get some shine when promotional kickboxing champ, Denise Kielholtz, collides with former title challenger, Kate Jackson in the new main event. Kielholtz has captured gold as a kickboxer, and is now 5-2 in MMA, and looks as though she is making a run to the title.