The Bellator Fighting Championships Season Seven lightweight quarterfinal matchups are set to go down this Friday as part of the Bellator 77: Clementi vs Sarnavskiy event.
Bellator 77 is scheduled to take place on October 19, 2012 at the Reading Eagle Theater in Reading, Pennsylvania with the main card airing live on MTV2 and the prelim card streaming live on Spike.com.
The lightweight quarterfinal matches include bout between former UFC veteran Rich Clementi (44-21-1) vs. undefeated Russian Alexander Sarnavskiy (20-0), a Brazilian matchup between a pair of season six tournament participants in Rene Nazare (10-2) vs Ricardo Tirloni (14-2), Polish fighter Marcin Held (13-2) takes on another undefeated Russian in Murad Machaev (9-0), and Bellator/WEC vet Dave Jansen (17-2) faces off with another Russian newcomer in Magomed Saadulaev (14-1).
Check out the full event card for Bellator 77 below:
Main Card (MTV2)
Lightweight quarterfinal bout: Rich Clementi vs. Alexander Sarnavskiy
Lightweight quarterfinal bout: Rene Nazare vs. Ricardo Tirloni
Lightweight quarterfinal bout: Marcin Held vs. Murad Machaev
Lightweight quarterfinal bout: Dave Jansen vs. Magomed Saadulaev
Preliminary Card (Spike.com & Bellator.com)
Flyweight bout: Dave Morgan vs. Matthew Lozano
Featherweight bout: Brett Martinez vs. Eric Albright
Lightweight bout: Mike Bannon vs. Cosmo Alexandre
Middleweight bout: Lewis Rumsey vs. Duane Bastress
Catchweight bout: Carmelo Marrero vs. Lew Polley
Lightweight bout: Emanuel Brooks vs. Darrel Horcher