Bellator Fighting Championships is set to hold it’s second title fight tonight (April 6, 2012) featured as part of the promotions sixth season.
Tonight Bellator 64 plays host to a welterweight title fight between defending champion Ben ‘Funky’ Askren and Season Five tournament winner Douglas ‘The Phenom’ Lima.
All the action goes down at Caesar’s Windsor in Windsor, Ontario with the entire event streamed live at Spike.com and with the main card also airing on television at MTV2. Catch the live video stream starting at 7pm EST(4pm PST) at Spike.com, with the main card airing at 8pm EST (5pm PST) on MTV2.
Also featured on the main card are two of the opening Bantamweight Tournament quarterfinal bouts pitting Rodrigo Lima vs. Hiroshi Nakamura and Travis Marx vs. Masakatsu Ueda. Rounding out the card is a Featherweight tournament semifinal between returning Summer Series finalist Marlon Sandro vs. Alexandre Bezerra.
We’ll have the full ‘Quick Results’ beginning with the main card due to Easter Weekend commitments. Be sure to check out the live ‘Play-by-Play’ from Sherdog.com for those who can’t access any of the live televised action.
Main Card (MTV2)
Welterweight Championship bout: Ben Askren def. Douglas Lima via Unanimous Decision (50-45, 50-45, 50-45) to defend title
Featherweight Semifinal bout: Marlon Sandro def. Alexandre Bezerra via Split Decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Bantamweight Quarterfinal bout: Travis Marx vs. Masakatsu Ueda via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Bantamweight Quarterfinal bout: Hiroshi Nakamura def. Rodrigo Lima via Unanimous Decision (29-72, 29-27, 29-27)
Preliminary Card (Spike.com)
Middleweight bout: Elias Theodorou def. Rich Lictawa via Submission (Verbal submission) – R3 @ 0:33
Catchweight (160 lbs.) bout: Kyle Prepolec def. Lance Snow via Submission (Arm bar) – R1 @ 2:54
Welterweight bout: Chad Laprise def. Josh Taveirne via Submission (Triangle choke) – R1 @ 2:48
Featherweight bout: Mike Richman def. Chris Horodecki via KO (Punches) – R1 @ 1:23
Welterweight bout: Nordine Taleb def. Matt Secor (30–27, 30–27, 30–24)
Lightweight bout: Jason Fischer def. Taylor Solomon via Technical Submission (Rear-naked choke) – R3 @ 4:59