Season Eight rolls on for Bellator Fighting Championships as the promotion visits The Bojangles’ Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina for this Thursday’s (February 14, 2013) Bellator 89: Dantas vs. Galvao event.
Bellator bantamweight champ Eduardo Dantas will defend his title for the first time when he takes on Season Six tourny winner Marcos Galvão in the main event.
The event also features the opening round of the Season Eight 185-lbs tournament with matchups between Brian Rogers vs. Dan Cramer, Brett Cooper vs. Norman Paraisy, Andreas Spang vs. Doug Marshall, and Sultan Aliev vs. Mikkel Parlo.
The main card will air live on Spike TV kicking off at 10pm EST (7pm PST) while the entire prelim card is set to stream live at Spike.com starting at approx. 8pm EST (5pm PST).
Check out the full event card for Bellator 89 below:
Main Card (Spike TV)
Bantamweight title bout: (c) Eduardo Dantas vs. Marcos Galvão
Middleweight quarterfinal bout: Brian Rogers vs. Dan Cramer
Middleweight quarterfinal bout: Brett Cooper vs. Norman Paraisy
Middleweight quarterfinal bout: Andreas Spang vs. Doug Marshall
Preliminary Card (Spike.com)
Middleweight quarterfinal bout: Sultan Aliev vs. Mikkel Parlo
Bantamweight bout: Timothy Goodwin vs. Nathan Davis
Welterweight bout: Chris Mierzwiak vs. Johnny Buck
Middleweight bout: Kyle Bolt vs. Joe Pacehco
Light Heavyweight bout: Aaron Johnson vs. Brennan Ward
Heavyweight bout: David Mejia vs. Mont McMullens