‘Medical Issues’ Force Pico Out Of Bellator 257

Aaron Pico has been forced out of his scheduled fight against Aiden Lee, which was set to go down at Bellator 257 event on April 16, 2021. According to a report from Insider, the fight will be pushed back a month or two in order for Pico to take care of some medical issues.

“The fight that was supposed to happen in April is being pushed back,” Scott Coker said. “[Pico] has some medical issues that he had to take care of, so now he’s probably being pushed back to the second fight [event] in May, or June.”

Pico is in the midst a three-fight win streak and was most recently seen defeating John de Jesus via knockout at Bellator 252 in Nov. 2020. As for Lee, he is currently enjoying a two fight win streak and was last seen defeating Jeremy Petley in Sept. 2020 to bring his record to 2-1 inside the Bellator cage.

Bellator 257 will be headlined by a Light Heavyweight title fight between division king, Vadim Nemkov, taking on Phil Davis in the opening round of the Light Heavyweight Grand Prix. In the co-main event, Corey Anderson takes on Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov in another Grand Prix bout.

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