Bellator’s 205-pound tournament starts taking shape with addition of All-American wrestler Nik Fekete
With fields already finalized in featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight divisions, Bellator Fighting Championships has turned their focus towards unveiling the lot of individuals competing over Season 4 for an opportunity to become the promotion’s first 205-pound champion and take home the $100,000 check attached to the honor. As such, according to a press release from Bellator, former All-American... [Read More...]
Bellator heading to Lousiana with lightweight tournament action on March 12
Bellator Fighting Championships has announced it will once again treat fans in the Southeast to live Mixed Martial Arts action, including a series of lightweight tournament bouts, a week removed from entertaining an audience in California with Bellator 35 and the promotion’s Season 4 debut on March 5. According to an official press release, Bellator 36 will take place on March 12 at the famous... [Read More...]
Anthony Lapsley replaces Steve Carl in Bellator Season 4 Welterweight Tournament
Birthdays often come with presents covered in colorful paper and shiny bows. However, this year Anthony Lapsley received a gift wrapped in a cage and only lacking “bows” due to the risk of a fight ending on cuts amd interfering with recovery time. Lapsley, who turns 31 tomorrow, was named by Bellator Fighting Championships as a replacing an injured Steve Carl against Jay Hieron on March 5 in a... [Read More...]
Bellator finalizes talent-packed Season 4 lightweight field with addition of Toby Imada and Polish prodigy Marcin Held
On the surface, lightweights Toby Imada and Marcin Held may appear to share little in common other than the division they call home and their ability to perform Mixed Martial Arts at a high level. Imada, a 32-year old Bellator original with roots in the promotion dating back to their inaugural event in April 2009, made his in-ring debut when Held was six years old and has competed forty-two times since.... [Read More...]
Patricky Freire joins brother Patricio as Bellator Season 4 Tournament fighter
PRESS RELEASE / CHICAGO, Ill. (February 11, 2011) – Bellator Fighting Championships have reunited “The Pitbull Brothers,” as the promotion has confirmed Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Patricky “Pitbull” Freire as a participant in the upcoming Bellator Season 4 Lightweight Tournament, which will air LIVE on MTV2 starting in March. His brother Patricio “Pitbull” Freire has already been... [Read More...]
Olympic Judoka Ferrid Kheder gets second chance at Bellator tournament
The appendix remains one of the body’s most mysterious organs. Viewed as small and relatively useless by most, for decorated judoka Ferrid Kheder nothing was further from the case last year days before debuting in the Bellator ring for a run at the Season 2 title. Kheder was forced out of the tournament after being diagnosed with appendicitis and has subsequently seen his in-ring unveiling put on... [Read More...]
Undefeated submission specialist Lloyd Woodard joins Bellator Season 4 Lightweight Tournament
Bellator Fighting Championships has named Lloyd Woodard as the fourth fighter competing this season in the promotion’s lightweight tournament. The Montana native will join Carey Vanier, Michael Chandler, and “Razor” Rob McCullough among the group hoping to secure a $100,000 payday and crack at Bellator champ Eddie Alvarez’s title with a series of wins in Season 4. “I’m ready to go out... [Read More...]
Bellator announces welterweight tournament bouts for Season 4 premiere
Though the field of Season 4 participants had long been set for Bellator Fighting Championships’ upcoming welterweight tournament the official breakdown of brackets remained shrouded in mystery. However, Bellator brought the quarterfinal round into the light earlier today, as the promotion announced a quartet of 170-pound pairings slated for Season 4’s March 5 debut at the Tachi Palace and Casino... [Read More...]
5-0 Michael Chandler added to Bellator Season 4 Lightweight Tournament
PRESS RELEASE / CHICAGO, Ill. (February 7, 2011) – Bellator Fighting Championships today confirmed the addition of undefeated Bellator veteran Michael Chandler to its upcoming Season 4 Lightweight Tournament, airing LIVE on MTV2 starting March 5th. With a pair of impressive wins under the Bellator banner in 2010, Chandler’s opponents have never made past the second round, as the Missouri native... [Read More...]
Season 2 Semi-Finalist Carey Vanier added to Bellator Season 4 Lightweight Tournament
PRESS RELEASE / CHICAGO, Ill. (February 3, 2011) – Bellator Fighting Championships today confirmed the addition of Bellator Season 2 semi-finalist Carey Vanier to its upcoming Season 4 Lightweight Tournament, airing LIVE on MTV2 starting March 5th. Vanier will be looking to carry the momentum from an impressive victory over dangerous UFC veteran Rich “No Love” Clementi at Bellator 28 into the... [Read More...]
Bellator deepens welterweight pool with signing of Ben Saunders
Although Bellator Fighting Championships has already announced the eight individuals competing this season in the organization’s welterweight tournament it very well may be a 170-pounder looking in from the outside drawing equivalent attention to the eventual winner when Season 4 concludes – Ben Saunders. The promotion announced the addition of “Killa B” to its roster earlier today in a press... [Read More...]
UPDATE: Rob McCullough named as first lightweight in Bellator Season 4 Tournament
With welterweight and featherweight fields already established, Bellator Fighting Championships appears to have turned its attention to revealing the eight 155-pounders competing this season for a six-figure paycheck and an opportunity to take on one of the top lightweights in MMA today, Bellator champ Eddie Alvarez. The first name mentioned by the promotion as participating in the Season 4 tournament... [Read More...]
Bellator announces official premiere of Season 4 on MTV2
Bellator Fighting Championships’ has revealed the promotion’s fourth season of fistic festivities will fire up on March 5 in Lemoore, California at the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino and air on MTV2 at 9:00 PM EST. Though the organization has not yet announced a line-up for the event it will almost certainly feature offerings from at least one of Season 4’s scheduled tournaments. “With our... [Read More...]
Bellator finalizes featherweight tournament field with addition of 19-0 newcomer Malegarie
PRESS RELEASE / CHICAGO, Ill. — Bellator Fighting Championships today announced the final participant in the Season Four Featherweight Tournament, adding undefeated Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Nazareno “Naza” Malegarie to the already impressive list of featherweight fighters. Malegarie joins Patricio “Pitbull” Freire, Wilson Reis, Daniel Straus, Georgi Karakhanyan, Zac George, Kenny Foster,... [Read More...]
Bellator names Patricio Freire as seventh featherweight in Season 4 tournament
Patricio “Pitbull” Freire will look to avenge the only loss of his career starting this March on MTV2 as the dynamic 23-year old has been announced as part of the field competing during Bellator’s fourth season in hopes of eventually facing 145-pound champion Joe Warren. Warren narrowly outpointed Freire in the final of a Season 2 tournament. “I have no interest besides fighting as a professional,”... [Read More...]
BJJ expert Wilson Reis returns for Bellator Season 4 Featherweight Tournament
PRESS RELEASE / CHICAGO, Ill. (January 28, 2011) — Six-time Bellator veteran Wilson Reis will have a chance to become a nine-time vet in early 2011. Bellator Fighting Championships today confirmed Reis as the sixth competitor in the Bellator Season 4 Featherweight Tournament which airs LIVE on MTV2 beginning in March 2011. Reis made it to the semifinal round of both the Season 1 and Season 2 Featherweight... [Read More...]
Daniel Straus dropping to featherweight for Bellator Season 4 Tournament
The latest 145-pound fighter added to Bellator Fighting Championships’ will enter this season’s featherweight tournament with a pair of distinct advantages over the bulk of his competition. Daniel Straus, named to the field on Friday in a press release to media, has won thirteen of his last fourteen fights and ten in a row…as an undersized lightweight. Beyond the planned drop in division and... [Read More...]
Georgi Karakhanyan latest 145-pounder named to Bellator tournament
Most of the men competing this Spring in Bellator Fighting Championships’ Season 4 featherweight tournament are likely focused on winning a title or taking home a six-figure check but for at least one of the participants it will be personal – Georgi Karakhanyan. Named to the field today by Bellator, Karakhanyan had won nine consecutive fights, including a devastating knee-based knockout of... [Read More...]
Featherweight Kenny Foster joins Bellator Season 4 tournament pool
Bellator Fighting Championships continued their recent initiative to announce talent attached to this upcoming season’s featherweight tournament earlier today when it was announced 8-2 Kenny Foster will be joining Eric Larkin and Zac George in their quest to earn a shot at 145-pound champion Joe Warren’s belt. “If any of my opponents take me lightly, I think that’s great – that’s... [Read More...]
Zac George added to Bellator Season 4 Featherweight Tournament
Bellator Fighting Championships has announced the addition of Zac George to the field competing this season for an eventual shot at featherweight champion Joe Warren’s title. The 27-year old George opened his career up with eleven straight wins, has emerged with his hands raised the last six times he’s fought, and holds an overall record of 20-3. “I’ve wanted to fight for Bellator for... [Read More...]
