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Bellator Fighting Championships will host Bellator 72 from The University of South Florida’s Sun Dome in Tampa on July 20. The fights will be broadcast live on MTV2 and in commercial-free HD on EPIX. The night will continue the Season 6 Welterweight Tournament Finals as Karl “Psycho” Amoussou takes on Bryan “The Beast” Baker in the Main Event. Bellator 72 will also showcase the debut of knockout artist Paul “Semtex” Daley as well as a bad blood welterweight trilogy

Bellator Fighting Championships is headed back to “The Sunshine State” on Friday, July 20th for Bellator 72 LIVE from The USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida. Featuring the finals of the Bellator Season 6 Welterweight Tournament between Bryan Baker and Karl Amoussou, Bellator 72 will also showcase the debut of knockout artist Paul “Semtex” Daley as well as a bad blood welterweight trilogy fight between Marius Zaromskis and Waachiim Spiritwolf. Additionally, the semifinals of the Bellator

The finale of Bellator’s Summer Series will feature three championship fights in one night at Bellator 73: Curran vs. Pitbull on Friday, August 24 from Harrah’s Tunica Hotel and Casino in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi. Bellator Featherweight World Champion Pat Curran will make his first title defense against the dangerous Patricio Pitbull, the Season 6 Bantamweight Tournament Championship will be on the line in Marcos Galvao vs. Luis Nogueira square and the night will be rounded off in the Summer

Bellator Fighting Championships has announced a new partnership with US-based Spanish language channel mun2, part of the Telemundo Communications Group, to broadcast its events in Spanish.Beginning on Friday June 29, mun2 will broadcast a series of Spanish language highlight shows recapping previous Bellator events beginning with Bellator 60 and its Featherweight World Championship fight between Pat Curran and Joe Warren. Bellator Chairman & CEO Bjorn Rebney stated via press release: “Both

Bellator Fighting Championships announced today that Welterweight Marcus “Lelo” Aurelio (6-1) has joined the promotion’s ranks. Aurelio will make his debut in the final “Summer Series” event of 2012: Bellator 73; which will take place August 24 at Harrah’s Tunica Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Mississippi. “Lelo” is not to be confused with the Lightweight fighter of the same name who fought in Pride and UFC.
Bellator Chairman & CEO Bjorn Rebney made the announcement: “Marcus is an

This Friday night Bellator 71 took place at The Mountaineer Casino, Resort and Racetrack in Chester, West Virginia. Travis Wiuff, Attila Vegh, Emanuel Newton, and Tim Carpenter won their quarterfinal fights and will now move up to the semifinals. Strikeforce veteran Brett “the Grim” Rogers made his Bellator debut with a TKO win over Kevin Asplund in the Heavyweight fight attached to the Main card.Rogers and Asplund were former friends and training partners. Asplund came in off of a 19-fight win streak.

The Bellator 71 weigh-ins have been completed from Chester, West Virginia in preparation for Bellator’s Friday night event at The Mountaineer Casino, Resort and Racetrack, which features the quarterfinals of the Bellator Summer Series Light Heavyweight Tournament.In the Light Heavyweight Tournament, Rich Hale was originally scheduled to fight, but was replaced due to illness by Tim Carpenter, who will take on Beau Tribolet. In a Heavyweight Feature Fight, former Strikeforce veteran Brett Rogers will

Bellator Fighting Championships has just signed undefeated lightweight Alexander “Tiger” Sarnavskiy (20-0) for its Season Seven Lightweight Tournament, the promotion announced on Tuesday.
Ranked as one of the top prospects in the world with a polished ground game, Sarnavskiy trains under one of the best technical strikers in the sport: Bellator Middleweight World Title Challenger Alexander “Storm” Shlemenko. Sarnavskiy wants to follow his coach’s lead: “Alexander Shlemenko has

Shawn Bunch, one of America’s top freestyle wrestlers has signed with Bellator, reports Ariel Helwani on his Twitter feed.

Former U.S. Olympic Wrestling Hopeful Shawn Bunch (@bunchthegreat) Signs With Bellator — mmafighting.com/bellator/2012/…
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) June 18, 2012

Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney posted the following on his Twitter feed, which was retweeted by Bunch:

If you’re a wrestling fan & its in your blood, stay tuned tomorrow for an announcement about another

If you have not been watching Bellator this year, then you have been missing out. When compared to the two larger MMA promotions: the fighters are different, they are on MTV2 instead of Pay-per-view or Fox/FX/Facebook and the purses and venues are smaller.  However, their fights deliver without question.What they may lack in “flash” or “star power” they make up for in substance if not raw violence. To be fair, though, Bellator’s fighters are becoming stars in their own right. Personally, I feel