Bellator to broadcast light-heavyweight tournament on MTV2 this March
by FiveKnuckles.com Staff on December 20, 2010

Bellator Fighting Championships today announced the promotion's inaugural Light Heavyweight World Championship Tournament which will take place in Bellator's much anticipated fourth season. The eight-man 205 lbs. Tournament will start in March, 2011. The eight Light Heavyweights will determine their own destiny in the cage on the road to the first Bellator Light Heavyweight Championship belt and $100,000 to the tournament winner.

An exhaustive search is currently underway to find the best available light heavyweights the MMA world has to offer. With six of the eight fighters already selected, announcements regarding confirmed participants of the 2011 Bellator Light Heavyweight Tournament are anticipated in the coming days.

"We've wanted to add a Light Heavyweight World Championship Tournament since Season 1, but wanted to ensure that when we did it, we had a great group fighting for the title. Now, we do," said Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney. "One of the best parts of my job is handing over the Bellator World Title belt to a new champion, and I'll have the pleasure of doing it again this upcoming season."

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Some of Bellator's most electrifying moments have coming during Championship fights, including current Bellator Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez defeating Toby Imada with a devastating rear naked choke submission, Featherweight Champion Joe Warren rallying back from the brink of defeat to knockout Joe Soto, and Zoila "The Warrior Princess" Frausto beating the previously undefeated and #1 ranked pound for pound female fighter Megumi Fujii.

Current Bellator Champions include, Hector Lombard at middleweight, Ben Askren at welterweight, Eddie Alvarez at lightweight, Joe Warren at featherweight, Zack Makovsky at bantamweight, Cole Konrad at heavyweight and Zoila Frausto in the women's 115 lbs. Division.

For more information, visit Bellator.com, follow Bellator on Twitter @BellatorMMA or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Bellator

 |  (11) Comments Mickey knox: This may be a stupid questn, and I'm just not seeing it, Why MTV2? That makes no sense to me. D_V: It makes big sense to me. MTV and MTV2 have the target desired audience for MMA already. I had heard, a while back, that MTV and MTV2 were both really interested in high level MMA. I thought I heard once that there was an idea floating around, where Mark Cuban, an avid MMA fan, was considering purchasing Strikeforce, and Bellator and making a super competitor for the UFC and airing the fights monthly on MTV with live musical acts and having the prelims be the up and comers and airing those on MTV2, as well as other challenger series cards on there too. MTV has bully beat down and I'm pretty sure they have that show Anthony Pettis was on as well, but I could be wrong about that, I've never seen the show. I do know that a 16 year old girl that plays for the local girls hockey team in Assiniboia, SK and has never watched MMA in her entire life, came up and asked me if I knew when Anthony Pettis was fighting a day or two before the WEC event, when she overheard me talking about MMA to a coworker. She is really into him. Kind of in a weird Justin Bieber stalking kind of way. Anyhow, I assume it's MTV because she's a stalker and the girls all watch MTV, they facilitate stalking there, lol. It is interesting to know that Pettis has single handedly grown the number of MMA fans out there by hundreds of thousands just by being on a TV show I've never heard of. This is a start, but I hope they can get like a Bellator vs Strikeforce card or something for the big MTV network because that would be the tits, ya know. It'll grow the fuck out of the sport. Wandering_Minstrel: D_V, you're referring to "World Of Jenks"... the show that Anthony Pettis was on. mike5k: I've never seen it either but I think I heard of it. D_V: If 16 year old girls watch it, it has to be cool though, lol Andrew: Im gonna be rooting for DJ Linderman to win that tourney. He will be making his debut at 205 he's been fighting at heavyweight with his only loss coming to Devin Cole. JujitsWho: I haven't even seen the lineup of matches. Im curious to learn who is involved The Hitman: It can't hurt. More exposure always helps. Marker28: TV money is good, a couple of "the Jersey Shore" cast members became millionaires doing nothing but acting like themselves, but will the fighters become millionaires or will Bellator just pull a ufc and say they are still growing and quietly pocket the millions?
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