Bellator 170 lineup set with Derek Anderson-Derek Campos on main card, Ruth-Schneider on prelims

The lineup for next month’s Bellator 170 is official and complete with the addition of two more fights for card in Southern California.

To open up the main card, Derek Anderson (14-2 MMA, 5-2 BMMA) and Derek Campos (17-6 MMA, 6-4 BMMA) will meet in a lightweight bout. And on the prelims, women’s flyweights Rebecca Ruth (6-2 MMA, 1-1 BMMA) and Colleen Schneider (10-7 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) will square off.

Promotion officials announced the new bookings today. Bellator 170 takes place Jan. 21 at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. The main card airs on Spike following prelims on MMAjunkie.

Anderson vs. Campos completes a main card that includes previously announced fights between featherweights Georgi Karakhanyan vs. Emmanuel Sanchez; Ralek Gracie vs. Hisaki Kato at middleweight; Paul Daley vs. Brennan Ward in the welterweight co-main event; and UFC Hall of Famer and former champ Tito Ortiz vs. three-time UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen in the headliner.

Derek Anderson

Anderson has consecutive wins and victories in three of his past four fights. After a submission loss to Marcin Held at Bellator 117, the first setback of his career, he bounced back with a Tko of Danny Navarro at Bellator 132. He dropped a split call to Brent Primus at Bellator 141, but since then has decision wins over Patricky Freire and Saad Awad, the most recent coming at Bellator 160 in August.

Campos has back-to-back wins after a rough run that saw him drop three of four fights. After a fiv-efight winning streak, including three straight for Bellator, he was knocked out in the second round by Freire at Bellator 117. After a knockout win over Estevan Payan, he was submitted in the first round by Michael Chandler at Bellator 138 and stopped in 37 seconds by a Brandon Girtz TKO at Bellator 146.

But at Bellator 149, he knocked out Melvin Guillard 32 seconds into the second round in February, and in September he made it two in a row with a decision win over Djamil Chan at Bellator 161.

Rebecca Ruth

Ruth had a four-fight winning streak snapped when she had to tap to a rear-naked choke against Ilima-Lei Macfarlane at Bellator 157 in St. Louis in June. She had a gritty first round against the younger Ruth, but ultimately got caught in a standing choke. Prior to that, her four-fight run included a decision win over Lena Ovchynnikova at Bellator 150 in February, her promotional debut.

Colleen Schneider

Schneider will make her promotional debut after most recently fighting under the Invicta banner, where she went 1-2. After a submission loss to Irene Aldan at Invicta FC 11 in February 2015, she rebounded with four straight wins, including a split decision over Raquel Pa’aluhi at Invicta FC 15 in January. But in May, her streak was snapped when she dropped a decision to Tonya Evinger at Invicta FC 17.

With the additions, the Bellator 170 card includes:

MAIN CARD (Spike, 9 p.m. ET)

• Tito Ortiz vs. Chael Sonnen
• Paul Daley vs. Brennan Ward
• Ralek Gracie vs. Hisaki Kato
• Georgi Karakhanyan vs. Emmanuel Sanchez
• Derek Anderson vs. Derek Campos

PRELIMINARY CARD (MMAjunkie, 6:30 p.m. ET)

• Chinzo Machida vs. Jamar Ocampo
• Dave Cryer vs. Jack May
• Cody Bollinger vs. Henry Corrales
• Keith Berry vs. Kevin Casey
• John Mercurio vs. Guilherme Vasconcelos
• Gabriel Green vs. Jalin Turner
• Christian Gonzalez vs. Daniel Rodriguez
• Ian Butler vs. Jacob Rosales
• Johnny Cisneros vs. Curtis Millender
• Tommy Aaron vs. Mike Segura
• James Barnes vs. Rob Gooch
• Rebecca Ruth vs. Colleen Schneider

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