Press Release – Newport Beach, California. (January 14, 2013) —The weigh-in and pre-fight press conference for Bellator MMA will take place Wednesday at 5:00 P.M. PST inside Irvine’s Bren Center, located at 100 Bren Events Center, Irvine, CA 92697. Bellator MMA will take place at Irvine’s Bren Center on Thursday, January 17th with the first fight taking place at 5 p.m. PST and streaming LIVE on Spike.com. The televised portion of the night will begin at 7 p.m. PST and will air LIVE on Spike TV.
All participants from Friday night’s event will be on hand, including Bellator Featherweight Champion Pat Curran, Bellator Lightweight Champion Michael Chandler, along with title challengers Patricio Pitbull and Rick Hawn.
The event will be emceed by Bellator cage announcer Michael C. Williams and Bellator color commentator Jimmy Smith.
As always the weigh-in is open to both the public and media.
The full fight card is listed below:
MAIN CARD:
Bellator Featherweight Championship Fight: Pat Curran (17-4) vs. Patricio Pitbull (17-1)
Bellator Lightweight Championship Fight: Michael Chandler (10-0) vs. Rick Hawn (14-1)
Light Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal Fight: Mikhail Zayats (19-6) vs. Babalu Sobral (37-9)
PRELIMINARY CARD:
Light Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal Fight: Seth Petruzelli (14-6) vs. Jacob Noe (9-1)
Light Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal Fight: Emanuel Newton (18-7) vs. Atanas Djambazov (17-2)
Light Heavyweight Feature Fight: Hector Ramirez (9-4) vs. Jason Lambert (24-13)
Featherweight Feature Fight: Aaron Miller (12-8) vs. Joe Camacho (13-17)
Welterweight Feature Fight: Joe Williams (7-1) vs. Jamie Yager (6-3)
Lightweight Feature Fight: Savant Young (10-9) vs. Mike Guymon (14-5)
Catchweight Feature Fight(165 lbs.): Brian Warren(18-15) vs. J.J. Ambrose (17-4)
Featherweight Feature Fight: Mario Navarro(4-2) vs. Cleber Luciano(7-4)
For more information, visit Bellator.com, follow Bellator on Twitter @BellatorMMA, follow Bellator Chairman & CEO Bjorn Rebney @BjornRebney and check out Bellator on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Bellator
About Bellator MMA
Bellator MMA is the world’s largest tournament based Mixed Martial Arts organization. Televised to nearly 500 Million homes worldwide in over 107 countries, Bellator’s majority owner is entertainment giant Viacom. In the United States, Bellator can be seen on Spike TV, the MMA television leader. With over 150 world-class athletes under contract, Bellator is home to many of the sport’s top mixed martial artists. Bellator’s founder & CEO, Bjorn Rebney, an experienced fighting sports and entertainment executive with a deep commitment to the purity and integrity of the sport of MMA and its athletes. Bellator’s core philosophy is that title shots should be earned, not given. This belief gave rise to Bellator’s real sport, tournament-based format, which gives Bellator’s tournaments a true playoff feel that keeps the sport true and distances itself from the subjective side of fighting sports found in organizations that utilize a matchmaking/casting formula. Bellator Fighting Championships’ executive team is comprised of top industry professionals in television production, live event orchestration, fighter development/relations, venue procurement, sponsorship creation/development, international licensing, marketing, advertising, publicity and commission relations. Bellator is based in Newport Beach, California.
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