{"id":412651,"date":"2023-02-15T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412651"},"modified":"2023-02-15T09:17:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:17:42","slug":"flyweight-champ-carmouche-rematches-bennett-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/flyweight-champ-carmouche-rematches-bennett-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyweight champ Carmouche rematches Bennett in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flyweight champion Liz Carmouche will defend her belt against DeAnna Bennett in the Bellator 294 headliner on April 21 at Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, the first event of a two-night doubleheader.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Liz Carmouche will defend her flyweight title against DeAnna Bennett at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bellator294?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bellator294<\/a> on April 21st in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>(Per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobDeMelloKHON?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RobDeMelloKHON<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bellator?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bellator<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MMA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MMA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xOPtSHUovC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xOPtSHUovC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Women&#39;s MMA Rankings (@WMMARankings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WMMARankings\/status\/1625731950446055424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Carmouche (18-7 MMA, 5-0 BMMA) and Bennett (13-7-1 MMA, 3-1 BMMA) already fought in September 2020, when the American flyweight champ submitted her 38-year-old compatriot in what was both of their Bellator debuts.<\/p>\n<p>The former two-time UFC title challenger went on to win another four fights in a row before earning a title shot against then-champion Juliana Velasquez at Bellator 278.<\/p>\n<p>Carmouche TKO\u2019d Velasquez to capture the belt and finished her once again when they rematched at Bellator 289.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett hasn\u2019t lost since dropping her promotional debut to Carmouche.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ultimate Fighter 26\u201d alum has won three fights in a row, including back-to-back decisions over Justine Kish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flyweight champion Liz Carmouche will defend her belt against DeAnna Bennett in the Bellator 294 headliner on April 21 at Neal S. Blaisdell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412652,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Bellator is returning to Hawaii with two title fights","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412651"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412651"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}