The Bellator Fighting Championships promotion is in Reading, Pennsylvania today for the official weigh-ins for it’s Season Seven lightweight tournament quarterfinal matches. The weigh-ins for Bellator 77 are set to take place today from the Reading Eagle Theater in Reading, with a card of ten matches for Friday’s live event. Today’s activities are set to […]
The Bellator Fighting Championships promotion is in Reading, Pennsylvania today for the official weigh-ins for it’s Season Seven lightweight tournament quarterfinal matches.
The weigh-ins for Bellator 77 are set to take place today from the Reading Eagle Theater in Reading, with a card of ten matches for Friday’s live event.
Today’s activities are set to begin at 5pm EST (2pm PST) 6pm EST (3pm PST).
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 at 8pm EST (5pm PST) and the prelim card streaming live on Spike.com at 6pm EST (3pm PST).
The lightweight quarterfinal matches include bouts 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 (155) vs. Alexander Sarnavskiy (155.6)
Lightweight quarterfinal bout: Dave Jansen (155.8) vs. Magomed Saadulaev (155.4)
Lightweight quarterfinal bout: Rene Nazare (156) vs. Ricardo Tirloni (155.4)
Lightweight quarterfinal bout: Marcin Held (155.8) vs. Murad Machaev (155.4)
Preliminary Card (Spike.com & Bellator.com)
Flyweight bout: Dave Morgan (125.8) vs. Matthew Lozano (125.8)
Featherweight bout: Brett Martinez (145.6) vs. Eric Albright (145.2)
Lightweight bout: Mike Bannon (155) vs. Cosmo Alexandre (156.6)*
Middleweight bout: Duane Bastress (185.4) vs. Ariel Sepulveda (186.5)*
Catchweight (240-lbs) bout: Carmelo Marrero (239.8) vs. Lew Polley (239.6)
Lightweight bout: Emanuel Brooks (155.6) vs. Darrel Horcher (155.7)
Both Alexandre and Sepulveda have two hours to lose the extra weight
Press Release – Newport Beach, Cali. (October 12, 2012) — Bellator’s Seventh and final season on MTV2 will come to a dramatic close on December 14th as tickets are now on sale for Bellator 84 from The Venue at Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. The event will feature the Tournament Finals in both the Featherweight […]
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Press Release – Newport Beach, Cali. (October 12, 2012) — Bellator’s Seventh and final season on MTV2 will come to a dramatic close on December 14th as tickets are now on sale for Bellator 84 from The Venue at Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. The event will feature the Tournament Finals in both the Featherweight and Heavyweight divisions, as well as the return of the “Lil’ Bulldog” Felice Herrig as she faces off against Michelle Gutierrez. Tickets for the event are on sale now and are available at Horseshoe Casino, Ticketmaster, www.thevenue-chicago.com, or by calling 1-800-745-3000.
The event will broadcast starting at 7 p.m. CT on MTV2 and in commercial-free HD on EPIX, as well as in Spanish language on mun2. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. CT, with the preliminary streamed LIVE and FREE on Spike.com.
“We’ve had great success and explosive fights at Horseshoe Casino, and I expect nothing less on December 14th for Bellator 84,” said Bellator Chairman & CEO Bjorn Rebney. “Our fans in Hammond are going to see two competitors walk away with checks for $100,000, and the chance to fight for a Bellator World Championship on Spike early next year.”
For Herrig, the Illinois native and Team Curran member has her sights set on longtime rival and former colleague Michelle “Diablita” Gutiérrez. Originally tied together under the same fight team, Herrig collected a submission victory over Gutierrez in 2009, but still feels like some unfinished business is on the line.
“We used to have the same management and were put in many situations to work together,” said Herrig. “I honestly gave it my best effort to be friends with her but her unethical practices as a fighter and in business directly impacted me. Fighting Michele again really does nothing for my career other than it gives me a chance to shut her mouth once and for all. It’s time for her to put her money where her mouth is.”
Even with the bad blood between the two, it won’t stop Herrig from realizing the opportunity in front of her.
“I am so excited to fight with Bellator again! To have my first fight back in Hammond is awesome since it’s so close to my home town. I was in the crowd when I witnessed my teammate Pat Curran win the Bellator Featherweight Title and I can’t wait to fight!
Additional information on Bellator 84 will be made available shortly.
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 Fighting Championships
Bellator Fighting Championships is the world’s largest tournament based Mixed Martial Arts organization. Televised to nearly 500 Million homes worldwide, Bellator’s majority owner is entertainment giant Viacom. In the United States, Bellator can be seen on MTV2, in commercial-free HD on EPIX. Starting in January of 2013 Bellator will be broadcast on MMA television leader, Spike TV. With over 150 world-class athletes under contract, Bellator is home to many of the sport’s top athletes. 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, believed 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 political/subjective side of fighting sports. 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 Southern, California.
About Horseshoe Casino
The $500 million Horseshoe Casino, a Caesars Entertainment Corporation property, just 20 minutes from downtown Chicago is the premier entertainment and gambling destination in Chicagoland. Where legendary gaming lives on, Horseshoe boasts more than 350,000 square feet with over 3,000 slot machines, over 100 table games, one of the largest poker rooms in the Midwest, and more. The Venue at Horseshoe Casino is proud to offer the ultimate concert and entertainment destination and premier experience in a flexible space that can hold up to 3,300 guests. Dining elegance is not overlooked and guests can choose from a variety of dining options including; Jack Binion’s Steak House which overlooks Lake Michigan and recent winner of the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Wine Spectator Award of Excellence and the May 2012 OpenTable Diners’ Choice award, around-the-globe variety at the Village Square Buffet, and a taste of Chicago at Benny’s Pub and Eatery.
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About EPIX
EPIX, a joint venture between Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), its Paramount Pictures unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), is a next-generation premium entertainment channel, video-on-demand and online service launched on October 30, 2009. With access to more than 15,000 motion pictures spanning the vast libraries of its partners and other studios, EPIX provides a powerful entertainment experience with more feature films on demand and online and more HD movies than any other service. It is the only premium service providing its entire monthly line-up of new Hollywood titles, classic feature films, original series, music and comedy specials through the linear channel, video-on-demand and online at EpixHD.com, the leading online destination for movies.
EPIX has made the commitment to deliver the industry’s most expansive online collection of movies, making more than 3,000 titles available on EpixHD.com. The service is available to over 30 million homes nationwide through distribution partners including Charter Communications, Cox Communications, DISH Network, Mediacom Communications, NCTC, Suddenlink Communications and Verizon FiOS.
About mun2
mun2 is the leading Hispanic cable network for young millennial adults 18-34. From reality to music, on-air to digital, mun2 creates original content that resonates across a multi-screen platform. Young, vibrant and unabashedly Latino, mun2 has a distribution to over 38 million households. The network is part of Telemundo Media, a division of NBCUniversal.
One of the best lightweight fighters not signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship became a free-agent following last Friday nights Bellator 76 event. Former Bellator champ Eddie ‘The Silent Assassin’ Alvarez (24-3) completed the last fight of his current contract by knocking high profile fighter Patricky ‘Pitbull’ Freire with a head kick in the main […]
Eddie Alvarez back flip
One of the best lightweight fighters not signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship became a free-agent following last Friday nights Bellator 76 event.
Former Bellator champ Eddie ‘The Silent Assassin’ Alvarez (24-3) completed the last fight of his current contract by knocking high profile fighter Patricky ‘Pitbull’ Freire with a head kick in the main event of the Windsor, Ontario show.
The Philadelphia based fighter isn’t sure where he’ll end up next, but he wants to take his time when it comes to signing his next contract whether or not that is with Viacom, the parent company of MTV2 and Spike, or the UFC, or another promotion.
Alvarez was a guest on The MMA Hour over at MMAFighting.com on Wednesday, where he spoke about his options as a free-agent as well as his recent victory over ‘Pitbull’ Freire.
“I want to sit down with the people of Viacom,” Alvarez said. “I’m interested in what’s going on with the Spike deal next year. Of course Bellator has a ton of huge things going on, and I’m interested in what them guys have to say. From there, we’ll field offers from everyone else, the UFC and everyone else, whoever’s out there, I don’t know who’s out there. I didn’t know Bellator existed, they just started when I was done with my Dream contract, they just popped up out of nowhere.”
The win was the second in a row for ‘The Silent Assassin’ since losing the Bellator title last year to Michael Chandler at Bellator 58. Alvarez avenged a previous loss to Shinya Aoki this past April by finishing the submission specialist via first round TKO at Bellator 66.
When asked about interest from the UFC, in particular from promotion president Dana White who sent him a Twitter message saying “let’s talk” following last Friday’s victory, Alvarez attributed it to White playing games.
“Dana’s a character, man, he likes to play games. I know what he’s doing, I know what he’s up to, hat’s off to him and I’ll see what happens.”
“There’s very few times in your career when you become a free agent after winning. That’s the biggest key.”
With Bellator moving to Spike in the New Year, the coffers may be a little deeper in order to keep a fighter like Alvarez around. The issue being whether or not you put him into the next tournament, which I don’t think Alvarez wants, or you keep him around to headline events for “one-off” fights.
If a world title is truly what Alvarez is after, then I can’t imagine he’ll stick with Bellator as he’s unlikely to have to run the gambit of fights to get to a UFC title that he would in a Bellator tournament. Of course this is all provided that he continues to win.
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 […]
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
British striker Paul ‘Semtex’ Daley (30-12-2) appears to have his next opponent in Kyle Baker (12-6) after the ‘Alley Cat’ posted the news on his Facebook page this past Saturday, identifying next months Bellator 79 event in Canada as the host for their welterweight bout. MMAWeekly.com has also confirmed the matchup since Baker made his […]
Paul 'Semtex' Daley
British striker Paul ‘Semtex’ Daley (30-12-2) appears to have his next opponent in Kyle Baker (12-6) after the ‘Alley Cat’ posted the news on his Facebook page this past Saturday, identifying next months Bellator 79 event in Canada as the host for their welterweight bout.
MMAWeekly.com has also confirmed the matchup since Baker made his announcement.
Bellator 79 is expected to take place on November 2, 2012 at Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario and will feature the Season Seven heavyweight tournament semi-final bouts between Richard Hale vs. Thiago Santos and Vinicius Kappke de Queiroz vs. Alexander Volkov.
Daley debuted with Bellator this past July, finishing veteran Rudy Bears via first round TKO at the Tampa, Florida event. The win put ‘Semtex’ back into the win column after a split decision defeat at the hands of Kazuo Misaki at the Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey show in March of this year. Daley is 3-1 over his last four matches.
This bout marks the debut for Baker inside the Bellator cage, entering the fight on a 1-2 record over his last three following a decision loss to Lucio Linhares at a CWCF event in Dubai this past March. The ‘Alley Cat’ has scored most of his wins by (T)KO with nine, while also earning one by submission and two by decision over his pro-career.
Following the Bellator 76 post-fight press conference, promotion CEO took some time to speak to CageReligion.com about Friday nights show in Windsor, Ontario. Rebney was impressed with the finishes from the featherweight quarterfinals, including former IFL title holder Wagnney Fabiano who returned to the sport after two years. He also discusses the upcoming move from MTV2 to Spike TV in the new year, the influx of Russian fighters and more.
Following the Bellator 76 post-fight press conference, promotion CEO took some time to speak to CageReligion.com about Friday nights show in Windsor, Ontario. Rebney was impressed with the finishes from the featherweight quarterfinals, including former IFL title holder Wagnney Fabiano who returned to the sport after two years. He also discusses the upcoming move from MTV2 to Spike TV in the new year, the influx of Russian fighters and more.
The Bellator Fighting Championships promotion is in Reading, Pennsylvania today for the official weigh-ins for it’s Season Seven lightweight tournament quarterfinal matches.
