Bellator Fighting Championships is ready to kick off it’s fifth season starting today with the Bellator 49 weigh-ins.
Today’s activities will take place live from the Palladium Ballroom at Caesars Atlantic City in New Jersey. Watch live streaming video of the weigh-ins and pre-fight press conference via video stream after the jump, all beginning at 5PM EST (2PM PST).
Bellator 49 is scheduled for Saturday, September 10, at Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The main card is scheduled to begin at 9PM EST (6PM PST) and will air on MTV2 live, as well as in HD on EPIX. While the entire prelim card will be shown on Spike.com begging at approx. 7PM EST.
The event features the quarterfinals of the Season Five Welterweight tournament with matchups including Chris Lozano vs. Brent Weedman, Ben Saunders vs. Chris Cisneros, Luis Santos vs. Dan Hornbuckle, and Steve Carl vs. Douglas Lima.
The full weigh-in results for Bellator 49 are as follows:
Main Card
Welterweight Quarterfinal bout: Chris Lozano (170.5 lbs) vs. Brent Weedman (170 lbs)
Welterweight Quarterfinal bout: Ben Saunders (171 lbs) vs. Chris Cisneros (171 lbs)
Welterweight Quarterfinal bout: Luis Santos (171 lbs) vs. Dan Hornbuckle (170.5 lbs)
Welterweight Quarterfinal bout: Steve Carl (171 .bs) vs. Douglas Lima (171.4 lbs)*
Local Feature Fights (Spike.com)
Featherweight bout: Brylan Van Artsdalen (144.2 lbs) vs. Joel Roberts (145.4 lbs)
Welterweight bout: Giedrius Karavackas (170.8 lbs) vs. LeVon Maynard (171 lbs)
Featherweight bout: Alexandre Bezerra (147 lbs)+ vs. Scott Heckman (146 lbs)
Featherweight bout: James Jones (149 lbs)# vs. Lester Caslow (149 lbs)#
Heavyweight bout: J.A. Dudley (235.5 lbs) vs. Azunna Anyanwu (158 lbs)
* Douglas Lima dropped the 0.4 lbs to officially make weight
+ Alexandre Bezerra has two hours to drop 1 lbs
# James Jones & Lester Caslow have two ours to drop four pounds unless they agree to a 149 lbs catchweight bout