Colleen Schneider signs with Bellator MMAJunkie reported Tuesday that MMA veteran Colleen Schneider (girlfriend of UFC heavyweight Josh Barnett) has signed with Bellator. Schneider (10-7) will be making her promotional debut at flyweight, and she’s primarily fought at bantamweight previously. Bellator now has a nice stable of flyweights, including Ilima-Lei Macfarlane, Anastasia Yankova and Lena Ovchynnikova. Schneider is slated to make her debut at Bellator 170, which takes place January 21st at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. Here’s an updated look at the card… Tito Ortiz vs. Chael Sonnen Ralek Gracie vs. opponent TBA Colleen Schneider vs. opponent TBA RFA middleweight champion Gerald Meerschaert signs with UFC As we broke earlier this morning, RFA middleweight champion Gerald Meerschaert has signed with the UFC. Meerschaert (24-8) heads into his UFC debut on a five-fight win streak and recently captured the vacant RFA middleweight title with a first-round submission victory over Chase Waldon at RFA 45 last month. Of his 24 career wins, 22 have come by way of stoppage (five knockouts and 17 submissions). The Roufusport product becomes the 53rd fighter from RFA to be signed to the UFC. UFC Fight Night 102 takes place at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York on December 9th. Here’s an updated look at the card… Derrick Lewis (16-4) vs. Shamil Abdurakhimov (17-3) Anthony Hamilton (15-5) vs. Francis Ngannou (8-1) Raphael Assuncao (23-5) vs. Aljamain Sterling (12-1) Patrick Cummins (8-4) vs. Gian Villante (14-7) Oluwale Bamgbose (6-2) vs. Joseph Gigliotti (7-1) Randy Brown (8-1) vs. Brian Camozzi (7-2) Ryan Janes (8-1) vs. Keith Berish (5-0) Juliana Lima (8-3) vs. Tatiana Suarez (4-0) Corey Anderson (8-2) vs. Sean O’Connell (17-8) Tiago Trator (20-5-2) vs. Zubaira Tukhugov (18-4) Andrew Sanchez (8-2) vs. Trevor Smith (14-6) Marc Diakiese (10-0) vs. Frankie Perez (10-2) Gerald Meerschaert (24-8) vs. TBA Chad Laprise injured, opponent Li Jingliang moved to another card UFC officials announced this morning that Canadian Chad Laprise has pulled out of UFC 206 due to injury. In addition the promotion announced that his opponent Li Jingliang will be moved to another card. UFC 206 takes place at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Dec. 10th. Here’s an updated look at the card. Daniel Cormier (18-1) (c) vs. Anthony Johnson (22-5) – light heavyweight title Max Holloway (16-3) vs. Anthony Pettis (19-5) Rashad Evans (19-5-1) vs. Tim Kennedy (18-5) Donald Cerrone (31-7) vs. Matt Brown (20-15) Valerie Letourneau (8-5) vs. Viviane Pereira (10-0) Zach Makovsky (19-7) vs. Dustin Ortiz (15-6) John Makdessi (14-5) vs. Lando Vannata (8-1) Olivier Aubin-Mercier (8-2) vs. Drew Dober (17-7) Jason Saggo (12-2) vs. Rustam Khabilov (20-3) Misha Cirkunov (12-2) vs. Nikita Krylov (21-4) Cub Swanson (23-7) vs. Doo ho Choi (15-1) Jordan Mein (29-10) vs. Emil Meek (8-2-1) Mitch Gagnon (12-3) vs. Matthew Lopez (8-1)
