No title matches are slated for this weeks Bellator Fighting Championshps event as the promotion moves into it’s third show on Spike TV.
Bellator 87 takes place this Thursday (January 31, 2013) and will feature the opening round of the Season Eight Lightweight tournament. The Soaring Eagle Casino in Mount Pleasant, Michigan hosts the television event.
The quarterfinal matchups have Season Six tourny quarterfinalist Patricky ‘Pitbull’ Freire facing Tristar fighter Guillaume ‘Il Toro’ DeLorenzi, while Season Six semifinalists Lloyd ‘Cupcake’ Woodard and David ‘The Caveman’ Rickles square off, as well as a match between a Season Six and Season Seven combatants in Thiago Michel vs. Alexander ‘Tiger’ Sarnavskiy, and lastly Ricardo Tirloni against newcomer Will ‘Ill Will’ Brooks.
The official weigh-ins are scheduled for this Wednesday, while Thursday’s main card is set to begin at 10pm EST on Spike TV.
Check out the full event card for Bellator 87 below:
Main Card (Spike TV)
Lightweight quarterfinal bout: Patricky Freire vs. Guillaume DeLorenzi
Lightweight quarterfinal bout: Lloyd Woodard vs. David Rickels
Lightweight quarterfinal bout: Thiago Michel vs. Alexander Sarnavskiy
Lightweight quarterfinal bout: Will Brooks vs. Ricardo Triloni
Preliminary Card (Spike.com/ Bellator.com)
Lightweight bout: Saad Awad vs. Jason Fischer
Welterweight bout: Sam Quito vs. Ben Lagman
Lightweight bout: J.P. Reese vs. David Shepherd
Featherweight bout: Cody Stamann vs. Justin Houghton
Heavyweight bout: Jason Fish vs. Karl Etherington
Lightweight bout: John Schulz vs. Amir Killah
Bantamweight bout: Nick Kirk vs. Tony Zelinski