Bellator Fighting Championships comes home to Spike Television in just over a weeks time for the promotions Season Eight Tournament airing on Thursday nights now vice Friday’s.
Bellator 85: Chandler vs. Hawn kicks off on January 17, 2013 from the Bren Event Center in Irvine, California. The main card will air on Spike TV starting at 10pm EST (7pm PST) with the entire prelim card streaming live on the web at Spike.com or Bellator.com starting at approx. 7:30pm EST (time to be confirmed).
The first show on Spike will see two title matches as well as the opening round of the light heavyweight quarterfinals.
Lightweight champ Michael Chandler will defend his belt versus Season Six tournament winner Rick Hawn, while featherweight title holder Pat Curran squares off with Season Four Tourny victor Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire.
Three light heavyweight quarterfinals are set with former Strikeforce champ Renato ‘Babalu’ Sobral debuting against opponent Mikhail Zayats, as well as ‘The Silverback’ Seth Petruzelli takes on Jacob Noe, and the third match has Emanuel Newton taking on Atanas Djambazov. The fourth bout will take place the next week with Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal facing Przemyslaw Mysiala.
Check out the full event card for Bellator 85 below:
Main Card (Spike TV)
Lightweight title bout: (c) Michael Chandler vs. Rick Hawn
Featherweight title bout: (c) Pat Curran vs. Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire
Light heavyweight tournament quarterfinal: Renato ‘Babalu’ Sobral’ vs. Mikhail Zayats
Light heavyweight tournament quarterfinal: Seth Petruzelli vs. Jacob Noe
Preliminary Card (Spike.com/Bellator.com)
Light heavyweight tournament quarterfinal: Emanuel Newton vs. Atanas Djambazov
Light heavyweight bout: Hector Ramirez vs. Jason Lambert
Featherweight bout: Aaron Miller vs. Joe Camacho
Welterweight bout: Joe Williams vs. Jamie Yager
Lightweight bout: Savant Young vs. Mike Guymon
Catchweight (165-lbs) bout: Brian Warren vs. J.J. Ambrose