Bellator 297 Weigh-in Results: 2 Title Fights Set

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An explosive night at the @WintrustArena
sees BW champ @SergioPettis
defend gold against #P4P
No.1️⃣ @PatricioPitbull.
Who wins? 👊#Bellator297
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— Bellator MMA (@BellatorMMA)
June 15, 2023

Patricio
Freire is officially a bantamweight, and he will try to make
MMA history on Friday.

Headlining the 15-fight
Bellator 297 card is a light heavyweight title fight where
champion Vadim
Nemkov will take on Yoel Romero.
Meanwhile, the co-main event will see Patricio
Freire attempt to earn a belt in his third weight class as he
takes on bantamweight titleholder Sergio
Pettis. All four men in championship matchups made weight, as
did the rest of the card.

Nemkov (15-2, 1 NC) is coming off an impressive unanimous decision
win over Corey
Anderson in their rematch. The light heavyweight champion
weighed in at 203.8 pounds and hasn’t suffered a defeat since 2016,
as he is undefeated within Bellator. He’ll take on a veteran in
Romero (15-6), who has won back-to-back fights in Bellator by
knockout. The 46-year-old will look to finally claim championship
gold, and weighed 205 pounds on the dot.

As for the co-main, current featherweight champ Freire (35-5) came
in at 134.2 pounds. “Pitbull” is on a three-fight win streak,
having defeated A.J. McKee,
Adam
Borics, and Kleber
Koike Erbst all by decision. Pettis (22-5) will look to retain
his belt, which he most recently defended against Kyoji
Horiguchi in 2021, where won via a “Knockout of the
Year”-winning spinning backfist. The bantamweight champion came in
at 134 pounds on the dot.

Bellator 297 will air live on Showtime at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on
Friday. Prelims begin at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT.