Ricky Bandejas considers himself lucky.
He competed on Bellator 240, the promotion’s last card before the COVID-19 pandemic and will headline the promotions first event back against Sergio Pettis at Bellator 242 this Friday, July 24.
The opportunity of his first Bellator main event came at a time when he least expected it. With the current state of the coronavirus, Bandejas decided to sit back for once.
Instead, he received the call to fight Pettis at the Mohegun Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT.
“I was just hanging out, enjoying my time off, corona, I wasn’t in a rush to get back and then my management called with this fight,” Bandejas said.