Bellator Fighting Championships will find it’s way to Spike TV in the New Year, making the move over from MTV2. Season Eight will debut on Jan. 17 at 10pm EST, a Thursday evening which will remain it’s home for the rest of the season. The first event, Bellator 85 will feature a featherweight title fight between champ Pat Curran vs. Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire, while lightweight champ Michael Chandler squares off against Rick Hawn as well.
Bellator Fighting Championships will find it’s way to Spike TV in the New Year, making the move over from MTV2. Season Eight will debut on Jan. 17 at 10pm EST, a Thursday evening which will remain it’s home for the rest of the season. The first event, Bellator 85 will feature a featherweight title fight between champ Pat Curran vs. Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire, while lightweight champ Michael Chandler squares off against Rick Hawn as well.
Press Release – Newport Beach, CA. (December 11, 2012) – Bellator MMA will make its long-awaited premiere on Spike TV on Thursday, January 17 at 10:00pm ET/PT with a star-studded fight card including two Bellator World Championship Title fights. Emanating from The University of California’s Bren Center in Irvine, CA, featherweight world champion Pat Curran […]
Press Release – Newport Beach, CA. (December 11, 2012) – Bellator MMA will make its long-awaited premiere on Spike TV on Thursday, January 17 at 10:00pm ET/PT with a star-studded fight card including two Bellator World Championship Title fights.
Emanating from The University of California’s Bren Center in Irvine, CA, featherweight world champion Pat Curran defends his title against explosive knockout artist Patricio Pitbull, while lightweight world champion Michael Chandler battles former Olympian Rick Hawn in their highly anticipated Bellator Championship showdown.
The action-packed night also features the Bellator debut of decorated MMA veteran Renato “Babalu” Sobral, who will fight in the quarterfinals of the Light Heavyweight Tournament against Russian submission ace Mikhail Zayats.
“Our Thursday, January 17th premiere on Spike will be an incredible night for MMA fans; two epic world title fights and an amazing collection of tournament fights” said Bellator Chairman & CEO Bjorn Rebney. “Spike TV is the home for MMA and this event will be a great way to kick off that homecoming.”
Bellator MMA, which features The Toughest Tournament in Sports, will showcase five tournaments this season in different weight classes including featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and light heavyweight. The 12-week season, airing on Thursdays at 10pm on Spike TV, will showcase many of the greatest mixed martial arts fighters from around the world in venues spanning across North America.
This Bellator MMA event on Spike TV is sponsored by Dave & Buster’s, Relativity Media’s “Movie 43,” and Everlast. Tickets for the event are on sale now at Ticketmaster.com and can be purchased at the Bren Center Box Office.
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
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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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The final show of Bellator Fighting Championships Season Seven tournament is scheduled to take place this Friday night in Indiana. Bellator 84 is scheduled to take place on December 14, 2012 at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana with the main card airing on MTV2 and the prelim card streaming live on Spike.com. The final […]
The final show of Bellator Fighting Championships Season Seven tournament is scheduled to take place this Friday night in Indiana.
Bellator 84 is scheduled to take place on December 14, 2012 at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana with the main card airing on MTV2 and the prelim card streaming live on Spike.com.
The final event features three Season Seven tournament finals with heavyweights Richard Hale meeting Alexander Volkov, lightweights Marcin Held facing Dave Jansen, and featherweights Shahbulat Shamhalaev vs. Rad Martinez all squaring off on the main card.
The Shamhalaev vs. Martinez featherweight final was to have occurred last Friday (Dec. 7) at Bellator 83 until Shamhalaev was forced off the card with food poisoning.
Check out the full Bellator 84 event card below:
Main Card (MTV2)
Heavyweight tournament final: Alexander Volkov vs. Richard Hale
Lightweight tournament final: Marcin Held vs. Dave Jansen
Featherweight tournament final: Shahbulat Shamhalaev vs. Rad Martinez
Women’s straweight bout: Felice Herrig vs. Patricia Vidonic
Preliminary Bout (Spike.com)
Welterweight bout: Quinton McCorttrell vs. Kevin Nowaczyk
Lightweight bout: Cliff Wright vs. Christian Uflacker
Middleweight bout: Daniel Vizcaya vs. Jack Hermansson
Catchweight (215-lbs) bout: Anton Talamantes vs. Anthony Gomez
Middleweight bout: Louis Taylor vs. Joe Vedepo
Flyweight bout: Jerald Williams vs. Joey Diehl
Heavyweight bout: Eddi Castillo vs. Dave Sharp
Featherweight bout: Robert White vs. Kenny Booker
Bellator 83 went down at Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Season Seven event was to feature a featherweight tournament final between Shahbulat Shamhalaev and Rad Martinez but food poisoning forced Shamhalaev off the card. Both fighters will square off this coming Friday (Dec. 14) at Bellator 84. Last nights Bellator 83 main card featured an women’s flyweight match which saw underdog Jessica Eye earn a surprising first round submission against Bellator 115-lbs champ Zoila Gurgel. Former bantamweight title holder Zack Hakovsky also came out on the losing end of a fight, losing a split decision to opponent Anthony Leone. The main card aired live on MTV2 while the prelims streamed live at Spike.com.
Bellator 83 went down at Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Season Seven event was to feature a featherweight tournament final between Shahbulat Shamhalaev and Rad Martinez but food poisoning forced Shamhalaev off the card. Both fighters will square off this coming Friday (Dec. 14) at Bellator 84. Last nights Bellator 83 main card featured an women’s flyweight match which saw underdog Jessica Eye earn a surprising first round submission against Bellator 115-lbs champ Zoila Gurgel. Former bantamweight title holder Zack Hakovsky also came out on the losing end of a fight, losing a split decision to opponent Anthony Leone. The main card aired live on MTV2 while the prelims streamed live at Spike.com.
Bellator Fighting Championships continues with it’s Season Seven tournament tonight with the Bellator 83: Martinez vs. Shamhalaev event which goes down live at Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Bellator 83 began it’s live broadcast at 7pm EST (4pm PST) on MTV2 and in commercial-free HD on EPIX, as well as in Spanish […]
Bellator Fighting Championships continues with it’s Season Seven tournament tonight with the Bellator 83: Martinez vs. Shamhalaev event which goes down live at Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Bellator 83 began it’s live broadcast at 7pm EST (4pm PST) on MTV2 and in commercial-free HD on EPIX, as well as in Spanish language on mun2. The preliminary card began at 6pm EST and streamed LIVE and FREE on Spike.com.
The event is headlined by a Season Seven featherweight tournament final pitting Rad Martinez vs. Shabulat Shamhalaev. The show also sees the return of former bantamweight champ Zach Makovsky as ‘Funsize’ returns to the cage since his title loss to face Anthony Leone. Women’s flyweight champ Zoila Gurgel takes on promotion newcomer Jessica Eye.
Check out the full ‘Quick Results’ for Bellator 83 below:
Main Card (MTV2)
Featherweight Season Seven tournament final: Rad Martinez vs. Shahbulat Shamhalaev bout postponed due to Shamhalaev suffering food poisining. Rescheduled for Bellator 84 on Dec. 14 Darrel Horcher def. Chris Liguori via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Bantamweight bout: Anthony Leone def. Zach Makovsky via Split Decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Women’s flyweight bout: Jessica Eye def. Zoila Gurgel via Technical Submission (Standing arm-triangle choke) – R1 @ 0:58
Preliminary Card (Spike.com)
Bantamweight bout: Claudio Ledesma def. Bo Harris via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Flyweight bout: Tuan Pham def. Matthew Lozano via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Featherweight bout: Terrell Hobbs def. Brylan Van Artsdalen via Submission (Rear-naked choke) – R1 @ 3:07
Lightweight bout: Darrel Horcher def. Chris Liguori via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Bantameight bout: Jimmie Rivera def. Jesse Brock via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
Heavyweight bout: Mike Wessel def. Alexei Kudin via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
The Bellator 83 broadcast begins live at 6pm EST (3pm PST) right here (via Spike.com) with the preliminary card before switching to tonight’s MTV2 main card. The Season Seven event goes down at Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey featuring featherweight tournament final between Rad Martinez vs. Shahbulat Shamhalaev. Former bantamweight champ Zach Makovsky returns since losing his title to face Anthony Leone, while women’s 115-lbs champ Zoila Gurgel takes on Jessica Eye in a flyweight bout.
The Bellator 83 broadcast begins live at 6pm EST (3pm PST) right here (via Spike.com) with the preliminary card before switching to tonight’s MTV2 main card. The Season Seven event goes down at Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey featuring featherweight tournament final between Rad Martinez vs. Shahbulat Shamhalaev. Former bantamweight champ Zach Makovsky returns since losing his title to face Anthony Leone, while women’s 115-lbs champ Zoila Gurgel takes on Jessica Eye in a flyweight bout.
