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Nate Jolly vs. Marcin Held is a late addition to Saturday's Bellator 120 card


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Although he lost his original opponent just a week before the show, Nate Jolly will remain on Saturday’s Bellator 120 lineup.

Officials today announced Jolly (13-5 MMA, 0-0 BMMA), who was scheduled to fight Will Brooks (13-1 MMA, 5-1 BMMA) until Brooks replaced Eddie Alvarez in a main-card fight with Michael Chandler (12-1 MMA, 9-1 BMMA), will now meet fellow Marcin Held (18-3 MMA, 7-2 BMMA) on Saturday’s card.

The fight is scheduled as a 158-pound catchweight affair.

Bellator 120 takes place at Landers Center in Southaven, Miss. Jolly vs. Held is part of the Spike TV-televised prelims, which precede the night’s pay-per-view main card.

Jolly, an Ohio-based fighter, makes his promotional debut at the event. The 31-year-old XFC vet is 3-1 in his past four fights, and most recently, he scored a decision victory over Gerric Hayes in October. Although he suffered losses against the bigger names he’s faced, Jolly has already tested himself against top-level competition like Jamie Varner and Dustin Poirier.

Held, meanwhile, is a noted submission specialist who tapped out Derek Anderson this past month in a Season 10 lightweight tournament semifinal (he meets Patricky Freire in the tourney final later this year). It was the third straight win for the 22-year-old Polish fighter, who has 10 submissions in 18 career wins.

The official Bellator 120 lineup includes:

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)

  • Quinton Jackson vs. Muhammed Lawal – light heavyweight tournament final
  • Will Brooks vs. Michael Chandler – for interim lightweight title
  • Tito Ortiz vs. Alexander Shlemenko – non-title fight
  • Michael Page vs. Ricky Rainey
  • Blagoi Ivanov vs. Alexander Volkov – heavyweight tournament final

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV, 8 p.m. ETP

  • Cheick Kongo vs. Eric Smith
  • Marcin Held vs. Nate Jolly
  • Fabricio Guerreiro vs. Shahbulat Shamhalaev
  • Mike Richman vs. Goiti Yamauchi

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike.com, 6 p.m. ET)

  • Austin Lyons vs. Zach Underwood
  • Justin Frazier vs. Mike Wessel
  • Ben Brewer vs. Andy Uhrich
  • Anthony Lemon vs. Codie Shuffield
  • Brian Hall vs. Cortez Phelia

For the latest on Bellator 120, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.

(Pictured: Marcin Held)

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