- Saturday 02.04.2023 at 06:00 PM ET
- U.S. Broadcast: CBS | Prelims: YouTube
- Promotion: Bellator MMA
- Ownership: Bellator Sport Worldwide, LLC
- Venue: Kia Forum
- Location: Inglewood, California, United States
- Enclosure: Cage
- TV Announcers: Mauro Ranallo, John McCarthy
- Ring Announcer: Michael C. Williams
- Post-Fight Interviews: John McCarthy
- TV Ratings: 1.12M avg. viewers
- MMA Bouts: 14
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Fight Card
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Bellator MMA Heavyweight Championship
KO/TKO, Ground and Pound
2:30 Round 1 of 510Main Event
265
5 x 5 | Pro -
Bellator MMA Middleweight Championship
Decision, Unanimous
5 Rounds, 25:00 Total9Co-Main Event
185
5 x 5 | Pro
Cancelled & Fizzled Bouts
Referees
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Jonathan Romero
Hughes vs. Karakaya (14), Corrales vs. Magomedov (6), Avsaragova vs. Lara (2) -
Herb Dean
Hokit vs. Ishiguro (13), Bader vs. Emelianenko II (10), Mowry vs. Isaev (5) -
Frank Trigg
Bates vs. Lugo (12), Eblen vs. Tokov (9), Gonzalez vs. Rohskopf (4) -
Blake Grice
Gracie vs. Schiro (11), Homasi vs. Ward (8), Neal vs. Albrektsson (3) -
Raphael Davis
Larkin vs. Berkhamov (7), Caldwell vs. Mikhailov (1)
Event Discussion
02.05.2023 | 1:30 PM ET
02.05.2023 | 2:15 PM ET
Bader really made a good career for himself and he has a sick wife
* Edited at 02.05.2023, 2:19 PM ET *
02.05.2023 | 2:19 PM ET
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Fight Predictions
Tapology members can make predictions for upcoming MMA & Boxing fights. Bellator 290 is closed for new predictions. 2,139 total members made predictions on this event, breaking down as follows below.
Leaderboard of the best predictions by member: Bellator 290 Leaderboard
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