The Bash v Eye, Alvarez v Aoki @ Bellator 66

MrStuffins

Great news coming from the States. Not only is Alvarez v Aoki a great match up, but Ais The Bash gets another shot in the Bellator cage against Jessica Eye, who Ais bettered last June!

Bellator Fighting Championships is heading to Ohio for the third time when Bellator 66 takes place April 20 at the I-X Center in Cleveland.

Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney today announced a headlining rematch between lightweights Eddie Alvarez (22-3 MMA, 6-1 BFC) and Shinya Aoki (30-5 MMA, 0-0 BFC).

Additionally, MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has learned from sources close to the event that the organization is finalizing a rematch between 125-pounders Aisling Daly (13-2 MMA, 0-1 BFC) and Jessica Eye (6-1 MMA, 1-0 BFC).

Bellator 66's main card airs on MTV2 while preliminary-card fights stream on Spike.com.

MMAjunkie.com previously passed along news of the Alvarez vs. Aoki fight. The pair originally met in December 2008, when Aoki needed just 92 seconds to submit Alvarez via heel hook at DREAM "Dynamite!! 2008." Since that meeting, Aoki has pieced together an 11-2 mark while Alvarez has gone 8-1, which included a November Bellator title loss to Michael Chandler is one of the year's best fights.

Eye and Daly, meanwhile, met in a June 2011 NAAFS title fight in Cleveland, where Daly used a fourth-round submission to deliver Eye her first career loss. Both fighters are now carrying-three fight win streaks. In fact, following an NAAFS win over Kelly Warren earlier this month, Cleveland's Eye campaigned for a rematch with the Irish fighter, as detailed in this week's Women's MMA Report.

"I've got to be upfront and honest here," she said. "Aisling Daly beat me fair and square. I'll never take anything away from that because she beat me but ... that's the past, and I've got a bright future."

Additional Bellator 66 fights will be announced in the coming weeks.

Bellator's first Ohio show took place in Dayton at Hara Arena in 2009. The event, Bellator 5, featured Toby Imada's inverted-triangle-choke victory over Jorge Masvidal, which won that year's World MMA Award for "Submission of the Year." Additionally, this past September, Bellator 51 took place at Canton Memorial Civic Center in Canton.

Thought i'd be watching this for Alvarez v Aoki when that fight was rumoured, but will definitely be watching for Ais Daly! Good luck Ais!

Aisling!

Thank you!! the article is a little wrong I actually won in round 2

Niall0

Aisling! wrote: »

Thank you!! the article is a little wrong I actually won in round 2

Good luck Aisling were all rooting for you!

Fiddle Castro

Really looking forward to this, Alvarez / Aoki is a bonus!

Congrats Ais, IMO you've been keeping Irish MMA in the international spotlight for the last couple of years & you're still rising!

Just4Kicks

Best of luck Aisling!!!

Niall0

Aisling! wrote: »

Thank you!! the article is a little wrong I actually won in round 2

Are you still fighting Rosi Sexton Aisling?