Bellator 57 kicks off tonight from Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario, Canada and features Bellator Fighting Championships Season Five Welterweight and Middleweight Tournament finals.
Tonight’s, Nov. 12th event, sees welterweight finalists Ben ‘Killa B’ Saunders versus take on former MFC champ Douglas Lima, while middleweight finalists Alexander ‘Storm’ Shlemenko and Vitor Vianna meet in the nights co-main event.
The event began at 5pm EST (2pm PST) with the preliminary card streaming live at Spike.com, and will be followed by the live MTV2 main card broadcast at the special time of 7pm EST (4pm PST).
For those who can’t access one, or both, of the Bellator broadcasts visit Bellator.com for their ‘Live’ Play-by-Play coverage.
The full weigh-in results for Bellator 57 are as follows:
Main Card
Welterweight Tournament Final: Douglas Lima def. Ben Saunders via KO (Punches) – R2 @ 1:21
Middleweight Tournament Final: Alexander Shlemenko def. Vitor Vianna via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
Light Heavyweight bout: Roger Hollett def. John Hawk via Split Decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Lightweight bout: Alexandre Bezerra def. Doug Evans via Submission (Heel Hook) – R1 @ 4:04
Local Feature Fights (Spike.com)
Lightweight bout: Chris Horodecki vs. Mike Corey Majority Draw (29-28, 28-28, 28-28)
Light Heavyweight bout: Matt Van Buren def. Shawn Levesque via Submission (Rear-naked choke) – R1 @ 4:38
Lightweight bout: Dave Jansen def. Ashkar Morvari via Submission (Rear-naked choke) – R2 @ 2:47
Bantamweight bout: Denis Puric def. Chuck Mady via TKO (Corner Stoppage) – R2 @ 5:00 (apparent broken jaw)
Lightweight bout: Josh Shockley def. Eric Moon via Submission (Standing Guillotine) – R1 @ 0:35
Lightweight bout: Taylor Solomon def. Mike Sledzion via KO (Punches) – R1 @ 1:10