Bellator 261

[3] A title eliminator women's flyweight bout between Liz Carmouche and Kana Watanabe served as the co-main of the event.

[6] The reigning WBC Muaythai World Featherweight champion Lena Ovchynnikova was scheduled to fight Kyra Batara in the event prelims.

[7] However, the bout was cancelled the week of the event with one of Batara's corner testing positive for COVID-19.

[12] Light heavyweight bouts between Simon Biyong and Lee Chadwick and Christian Edwards and Ben Parrish were scheduled for this show.

However, Chadwick tested positive for COVID-19 and Parrish had to pull out of the bout, so Biyong and Edwards were matched with each other.