How to Watch Bellator 269

One of the sport’s true icons will suit up for Bellator MMA when former Pride Fighting Championships heavyweight titleholder Fedor Emelianenko takes on Timothy Johnson in the Bellator 269 headliner on Saturday at VTB Arena in Moscow. The show serves as the Scott Coker-led promotion’s debut in Russia.

Bellator 269 “Fedor vs. Johnson”—which airs live on Showtime at 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT—also features a heavyweight co-main event matching Vitaly Minakov with Said Sowma, a 160-pound catchweight tilt pitting Usman Nurmagomedov against Patrik Pietila and a middleweight affair pairing Anatoly Tokov with Sharaf Davlatmurodov. The undercard will stream in its entirety to the Bellator YouTube channel at 12:30 p.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT, as a heavyweight battle between Kirill Sidelnikov and Rab Truesdale buoys the six-fight preliminary lineup.

A closer look at the Bellator 269 particulars:

THE LINEUP

265: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Timothy Johnson
265: Vitaly Minakov vs. Said Sowma
160: Usman Nurmagomedov vs. Patrik Pietila
185: Anatoly Tokov vs. Sharaf Davlatmurodov
265: Kirill Sidelnikov vs. Rab Truesdale
125: Darina Mazdyuk vs. Katarzyna Sadura
130: Irina Alekseeva vs. Stephanie Ielo Page
135: Brian Moore vs. Nikita Mikhailov
170: Grachik Bozinyan vs. Alexey Shurkevich
145: Aiden Lee vs. Alexander Osetrov

THE RUNDOWN
• Preview
• By The Numbers: Emelianenko vs. Johnson
• 5 Things You Might Not Know About Timothy Johnson
• Rivalries: Vitaly Minakov

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