Bellator Fighting Championships opens it’s fifth season tonight, September 10, from Caesars Atlantic City with the opening quarterfinals of their welterweight tournament.
Bellator 49 features a nine bout card from Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The four fight main card will air live at 9PM EST (6PM PST) on MTV2 in the U.S. and on TheScore in Canada. As well, a first for Bellator, the entire five bout prelim card will be shown live on Spike.com.
The Season Five welterweight tournament includes matches between Chris Lozano vs. Brent Weedman, Ben Saunders vs. Chris Cisnero, Luis Santos vs. Dan Hornbuckle, and Steve Carl vs. Douglas Lima.
For fans looking for ‘Round-by-Round’ coverage of Bellator 49, check out Bellator.com.
The full Bellator 49 ‘Quick Results’ are as follows:
Main Card
Welterweight Quarterfinal bout: Chris Lozano def. Brent Weedman via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Welterweight Quarterfinal bout: Ben Saunders def. Chris Cisnero via TKO (Punches) – R3 @ 0:29
Welterweight Quarterfinal bout: Luis Santos def. Dan Hornbuckle via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Welterweight Quarterfinal bout: Douglas Lima def. Steve Carl via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
Local Feature Fights (Spike.com)
Catchweight (147 lb) bout: Alexandre Bezerra def. Scott Heckman via TKO (Punches) – R2 @ 1:38
Welterweight bout: Giedrius Karavackas def. LeVon Maynard via TKO (Knee/Punches) – R3 @ 1:32
Featherweight bout: Joel Roberts def. Brylan Van Artsdalen via Technical Submission (Triangle choke) – R2 @ 1:47
Catchweight bout (150 lbs) bout: Lester Caslow def. James Jones via TKO (Punches) – R2 @ 0:15 – Jones injured his right leg but wasn’t able to inform the ref of the injury before Caslow finished by TKO
Heavyweight bout: Azunna Anyanwu def. J.A. Dudley via TKO (Punches) – R2 @ 4:16