Roy Nelson Removed From Bellator 200

As we reported earlier this week, Mirko Cro Cop was removed from Bellator 200 due to an injury, leaving Roy Nelson without an opponent. Now MMA Junkie reports that Bellator MMA President Scott Coker has confirmed Nelson will also not be part of the card. Nelson will be compensated for the fight, but an amount wasn’t revealed. He will also be booked as soon as possible for another card.

The event happens at the SSE Arena in London. The main card airs on tape-delay on Paramount after preliminary fights on the Bellator app. Here’s the card:

MAIN CARD (Paramount (tape delay), 9 p.m. ET)
Champ Rafael Carvalho vs. Gegard Mousasi – for middleweight title
Michael Page vs. David Rickels
Phil Davis vs. Linton Vassell
Aaron Chalmers vs. Ash Griffiths
Kate Jackson vs. Anastasia Yankova

PRELIMINARY CARD (Bellator app, 12:30 p.m. ET)
Vladimir Filipovic vs. Anatoly Tokov
Pedro Carvalho vs. Daniel Crawford
Martyn Harris vs. Ryan Scope
Carl Noon vs. Mike Shipman
Louis King vs. Charlie Ward
Jeremy Petley vs. Saul Rogers
Kevin Fryer vs. Costello Van Steenis
Tom Green vs. Charlie Leary
Walter Gahadza vs. Kent Kauppinen
Jahreau Shepherd vs. Marcin Zywica
Chad Griffiths vs. Tom Mearns
Amir Albazi vs. Iurie Bejenari