Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three was the third installment of the Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships is a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. "Bellator", which is Latin for "Warrior", is organized into seasons with each event hosting the rounds of championship knockout tournaments for three-five weight divisions.-History:In its first season,...

, which started on August 12, 2010. Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

tournaments were held in multiple weight classes, including the bantamweight

Bantamweight (MMA)

The bantamweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes:*The King of the Cage bantamweight class with upper limit at 145 lb...

division, heavyweight

Heavyweight (MMA)

The heavyweight division in mixed martial arts generally groups fighters between .Although many ambiguities exist within the lower weight classes regarding division naming and weight limits, the Heavyweight division is, for the most part, uniform...

division and women's division at 115 pounds. Also some Bellator champions defended their titles against the Bellator season two tournament winners

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Two

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Two was the second installment of the Bellator Fighting Championships -produced series. It started on April 8, 2010 and ended June 24, 2010. Tournaments were held in the featherweight, lightweight, welterweight and middleweight divisions...

during the season.

Bellator XXIV

Bellator XXIV was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

event held by Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

. The event took place on Thursday, August 12, 2010 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Hard Rock Cafe

Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Americans Peter Morton & Isaac Tigrett. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2006, Hard Rock was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and...

in Hollywood, Florida

Hollywood, Florida

-Demographics:As of 2000, there were 59,673 households out of which 24.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.5% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.2% were non-families. 34.4% of all households were made up of...

. The card began Bellator Season Three

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three was the third installment of the Bellator Fighting Championships, which started on August 12, 2010. Mixed martial arts tournaments were held in multiple weight classes, including the bantamweight division, heavyweight division and women's division at...

and featured the first round of the Bellator 115-pound women's tournament and an opening round fight in the Heavyweight tournament.

Background

Two bouts, Nico Parella vs. Efrain Ruiz and Frank Carrillo vs. Moyses Gabin, were scratched from the untelevised portion of this card. Parella pulled his groin and Gabin suffered a broken foot, which forced both off the card.

Results

Main Card

Middleweight bout: Hector Lombard
Hector Lombard
Hector Lombard is a Cuban-Australian mixed martial artist. Lombard was a Judo Olympian competing at the Sydney 2000 Olympic games, and is a multiple time national champion and world finalist. After 2000, Lombard began pursuing a career in mixed martial arts...

vs. Herbert Goodman
Herbert Goodman
Herbert "Whisper" Goodman is an American mixed martial artist and former NFL runningback for the Green Bay Packers.-NFL career:...

Lombard defeated Goodman via KO (punches) at 0:38 of round 1.

Heavyweight Quarterfinal: Eddie Sanchez
Eddie Sanchez
Eduardo Arturo Sanchez is an American mixed martial arts fighter.-Ultimate Fighting Championship:On February 3, 2007 at the Ultimate Fighting Championship's UFC 67, he lost to Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović by technical knockout due to punches at 4:33 of the first round, in Filipović's debut fight in...

vs. Neil Grove
Neil Grove
Neil Grove is a South African-born English heavyweight mixed martial artist currently signed with Bellator Fighting Championships. He holds a black belt rank of shodan in Gōjū-ryū karate...

Grove def. Sanchez via TKO (doctor stoppage) at 1:32 of round 1.

Women's (115 lbs.) Quarterfinal: Megumi Fujii
Megumi Fujii
Megumi Fujii is a female Japanese mixed martial artist. She is currently the #3-ranked pound-for-pound female MMA fighter in the world by MMARising.com and the #1-ranked female flyweight according to the Unified Women's MMA Rankings.-Biography:Fujii specializes mainly in submission fighting and is...

vs. Carla Esparza

Fujii defeated Esparza via submission (armbar) at 0:57 of round 2.

Women's (115 lbs.) Quarterfinal: Jessica Aguilar
Jessica Aguilar
Jessica Aguilar is a Mexican American female mixed martial artist who currently competes for Bellator Fighting Championships...

vs. Lynn Alvarez

Aguilar defeated Alvarez via submission (arm triangle choke) at 4:01 of round 1.

Local Feature Fights

Lightweight bout: Yves Edwards
Yves Edwards
|-| Win| align="center" | 41-17-1| Rafaello Oliveira| TKO | UFC Live: Cruz vs. Johnson| | align="center" | 2| align="center" | 2:44| Washington, D.C||-| Loss| align="center" | 40-17-1| Sam Stout| KO...

vs. Luis Palomino
Luis Palomino
Luis Palomino is a Peruvian American mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight division, having formerly fought in the featherweight division...

Edwards defeated Palomino via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28).

Featherweight bout: Eric Luke vs. Farkhad Sharipov

Sharipov defeated Luke via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Bantamweight bout: Tulio Quintanilla vs. Brian Eckstein

Quintanilla defeated Eckstein via KO (punches) at 2:48 of round 3.

Bellator XXV

Bellator XXV was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

event held by Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

. This event took place on August 19, 2010 at the Chicago Theatre

Chicago Theatre

The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz group of theaters run by A. J. Balaban, his brother...

in Chicago, Illinois. The card featured tournament fights in Bellator's third season

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three

. The event was distributed live in prime time by FOX Sports Net

Fox Sports Net

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

and its regional sports network affiliates. In Japan, the event was distributed with a short delay by Cavea

Cavea

In Roman times the cavea were the subterranean cells in which wild animals were confined before the combats in the Roman arena or amphitheatre....

.

Background

A lightweight bout featuring Mark Miller

Mark Miller (fighter)

Marcus Dennis Miller is an American mixed martial artist. He has won MMA welterweight titles with XFO and Total Fight Challenge as well as the USKO international rules kickboxing title. A former IFL fighter, Miller was a competitor on SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs...

and Josh Shockley was set to happen at this event. But the week before the event, the bout was scratched when Miller suffered a rib injury in training.

Results

Main Card

Welterweight bout: Brad Blackburn
Brad Blackburn
Brad Lavale Blackburn Jr. is an American professional mixed martial artist. He fought for the Seattle Tiger Sharks in the now defunct International Fight League...

vs. Dan Hornbuckle
Dan Hornbuckle
Dan Hornbuckle is an American mixed martial artist. Hornbuckle holds a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under Jack McVicker and has a self-proclaimed black belt in "intensity". Hornbuckle is Native American, and is a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee tribe...

Hornbuckle defeated Blackburn via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) to earn a spot in Bellator's Season Four Welterweight Tournament.

Heavyweight Quarterfinal: Cole Konrad
Cole Konrad
Cole Konrad is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He is currently a student at the University of Minnesota and former wrestler for the Golden Gophers. Konrad won a gold medal at the 2005 Pan-American Championships...

vs. Rogent Lloret
Rogent Lloret
Rogent Lloret is a Spanish Catalan mixed martial artist and M-1 Global veteran.Lloret competed in the 2009 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship in Barcelona, Spain, he lost in the opening round to eventual winner Fabricio Werdum...

Konrad defeated Lloret via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Heavyweight Quarterfinal: Damian Grabowski
Damian Grabowski
Damian Grabowski is a Polish mixed martial artist. He fights in the heavyweight division and competed for various European MMA promotions, gathering a perfect record of twelve wins in a streak, all by stoppage, with four of them earned in a one-night sixteen men heavyweight tournament, before...

vs. Scott Barrett
Scott Barrett (fighter)
Scott Barrett is an American mixed martial artist who has fought in the Bellator Fighting Championships. He was a participant in the heavyweight tournament during Bellator's third season. He lost a unanimous decision in the first round of the tournament to undefeated Polish heavyweight Damian...

Grabowski defeated Barrett via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Women's (115 lbs.) Quarterfinal: Jessica Pene vs. Zoila Frausto
Zoila Frausto
Zoila L. Gurgel is an American professional female mixed martial artist. Her nickname comes from the popular 1990s TV series Xena: Warrior Princess...

Frausto defeated Pene via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Local Feature Fights

Welterweight bout: Shonie Carter
Shonie Carter
Mearion Shonie Bickhem III , better known as Shonie Carter, is an American mixed martial artist. He is a former World Extreme Cagefighting welterweight champion, an Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran, and a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter 4 reality show...

vs. Torrance Taylor

Taylor defeated Carter via unanimous decision (30–26, 30–27, 30–27).

Welterweight bout: Brian Gassaway vs. Kevin Knabjian
Kevin Knabjian
Kevin Knabjian is an American mixed martial artist of Armenian descent. He has competed in various promotions, debuting in Shooto in 2003 and going on to fight in CFC, WEC and Bellator Fighting Championship.-Mixed martial arts career:...

Gassaway defeated Knabjian via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28).

Welterweight bout: John Kolosci
John Kolosci
John Kolosci is an American mixed martial artist. He was a fighter on Season 6 of The Ultimate Fighter, fighting on Team Serra.-The Ultimate Fighter:...

vs. Kenny Robertson

Robertson defeated Kolosci via submission (keylock) at 2:41 of round 2.

Lightweight bout: Keoki Cypriano vs. Eric Kriegermeier

Kriegermeier defeated Cypriano via submission (triangle choke) at 3:16 of round 1.

Bellator XXVI

Bellator XXVI was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

event held by Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

. The event took place on Thursday, August 26, 2010 at Kansas City Power & Light District

Kansas City Power & Light District

The Kansas City Power & Light District or Power & Light District is a shopping and entertainment district in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, United States, developed by the Cordish Company of Baltimore, Maryland and designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and 360 Architecture. The district comprises nine...

in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

. The card featured tournament fights in Bellator's third season

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three

. The event was distributed live in prime time by FOX Sports Net

Fox Sports Net

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

and its regional sports network affiliates.

Background

Rory Markham

Rory Markham

|-| Loss|align=center| 16–6| Nate Diaz| TKO | UFC 111| |align=center| 1|align=center| 2:47|Newark, New Jersey, United States| Catchweight bout of 177 lbs.|-| Loss|align=center| 16–5| Dan Hardy| KO | UFC 95| |align=center| 1...

was scheduled to fight Steve Carl

Steve Carl

Steve Carl is an American mixed martial artist. He competes in the welterweight division. As an Iraq War veteran, Carl competes in MMA while he is home from active duty.-Early career:Carl made his professional MMA debut in November 2005...

, however Markham was not medically cleared. Tyler Stinson took his place.

Results

Main Card

Catchweight (175 lbs) bout: United States Tyler Stinson vs. United States Steve Carl
Steve Carl
Steve Carl is an American mixed martial artist. He competes in the welterweight division. As an Iraq War veteran, Carl competes in MMA while he is home from active duty.-Early career:Carl made his professional MMA debut in November 2005...

Carl defeated Stinson via technical submission (guillotine choke) at 2:30 of round 1 to earn a spot in Bellator's Season Four Welterweight Tournament.

Heavyweight Quarterfinal: United States Mike Hayes
Mike Hayes (fighter)
Mike Hayes is an American mixed martial artist who currently competes in the heavyweight division of Bellator Fighting Championships.-Mixed martial arts career:...

vs. Russia Alexey Oleinik
Alexey Oleinik
Alexey Oleinik is a Ukrainian-Russian mixed martial artist who is a M-1 Global veteran and has fought for Bellator Fighting Championships, Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, BodogFight and YAMMA Pit Fighting.-Mixed martial arts career:...

Oleinik defeated Hayes via split decision (28–29, 29–28, 29–28).

Bantamweight Quarterfinal: United States Jose Vega vs. United States Danny Tims

Vega defeated Tims via unanimous decision (29–28, 30–27, 29–28).

Women's (115 lbs.) Quarterfinal: Republic of Ireland Aisling Daly
Aisling Daly
Aisling Daly is an Irish female professional mixed martial artist who competes in the women's flyweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Daly has mostly fought in England and Ireland....

vs. United States Lisa Ward
Lisa Ward
Lisa Ward is an American professional female mixed martial artist. She has fought in HOOKnSHOOT, Smackgirl, DEEP and Bellator Fighting Championships....

Ward defeated Daly via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Local Feature Fights

Middleweight bout: United States Zak Cummings
Zak Cummings
Zak Cummings is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Cummings has mostly fought in his home state of Missouri.- Background:...

vs. United States Rudy Bears

Cummings defeated Bears via submission (brabo choke) at 1:27 of round 1.

Featherweight bout: United States Brian Davidson vs. United States Kevin Croom

Croom defeated Davidson via submission (rear-naked choke) at 3:22 of round 2.

Middleweight bout: United States Brian Imes vs. United States John Ott
John Ott (fighter)
John Ott is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. Ott fought in local events before signing with Bellator Fighting Championships in 2010. Currently he fights for Titan Fighting Championships. He is known for his heart and determination.-MMA career:Ott began fighting locally in 2006...

Ott defeated Imes via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Light Heavyweight bout: United States Demetrius Richards vs. United States Jeb Chiles

Chiles defeated Richards via technical submission (kimura) at 3:51 of round 2.

Bellator XXVII

Bellator XXVII was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

event held by Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

. The event took place on Thursday, September 2, 2010 at Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...

. The card featured tournament fights in Bellator's third season

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three

. The event was distributed live in prime time by FOX Sports Net

Fox Sports Net

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

and its regional sports network affiliates.

Results

Main Card

Featherweight Championship bout: Joe Soto
Joe Soto
Joseph Angel Soto is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. Soto is currently signed under the Bellator Fighting Championships promotion where he was the first ever Bellator Featherweight Champion, and the winner of their inaugural featherweight tournament.-Biography:At the time...

(c) vs. Joe Warren
Joe Warren (fighter)
Joe Warren is an American Greco-Roman wrestler and mixed martial artist. As a Greco-Roman wrestler, he won the 2006 Pan American and World Championship and was a favourite for the 2008 Olympics, but was given a two-year suspension after testing positive for THC while trying to qualify for the 2007...

Warren defeated Soto via TKO (knee & punches) at 0:33 of round 2 to become the new Bellator Featherweight Champion.

Bantamweight Quarterfinal: Travis Reddinger vs. Ulysses Gomez
Ulysses Gomez
Ulysses Gomez is a Mexican American mixed martial artist who competes in the flyweight and bantamweight divisions. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Gomez has mostly fought in PFC and Tachi Palace Fights and is also known for his grappling career....

Gomez defeated Reddinger via split decision (28–29, 29–28, 29–28).

Bantamweight Quarterfinal: Zach Makovsky
Zach Makovsky
Zachory Paul "Zach" Makovsky is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the bantamweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Makovsky has most notably fought in Elite Xtreme Combat and Bellator Fighting Championships where he is the Bellator Bantamweight Champion.-Early...

vs. Nick Mamalis
Nick Mamalis
Nick Mamalis is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the bantamweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Mamalis has most notably fought in Bellator Fighting Championships where he will compete in the Bellator season three bantamweight tournament.-Early career:Mamalis...

Makovsky defeated Mamalis via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)

Bantamweight Quarterfinal: Ed West
Ed West (fighter)
Ed West is an American mixed martial artist. He currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships in the Bantamweight division and was featured in the fourth season tournament and is currently fighting in the fifth season tournament....

vs. Bryan Goldsby
Bryan Goldsby
Bryan Goldsby is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He is currently signed by Bellator Fighting Championships.-MMA career:...

West defeated Goldsby via unanimous decision (30–27, 29–28, 29–28)

Local Feature Fights

Middleweight bout: Andrew Craig vs. Rodrigo Pinheiro

Craig defeated Pinheiro via TKO (doctor stoppage) at 2:53 of round 3.

Lightweight bout: Aaron Barringer vs. Gilbert Jimenez

Jimenez defeated Barringer via unanimous decision.

Heavyweight bout: Dale Mitchell vs. Richard Odoms

Odoms defeated Mitchell via split decision.

Welterweight bout: Joe Christopher vs. Andrew Chappelle

Chappelle defeated Christopher via unanimous decision.

Light Heavyweight bout: Jon Kirk vs. Shane Faulkner

Kirk defeated Faulkner via TKO (punches) at 2:19 of round 3.

Featherweight bout: Steven Peterson vs. Ernest De La Cruz

Peterson defeated De La Cruz via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 29–28).

Bellator XXVIII

Bellator XXVIII was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

event held by Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

. The event took place on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...

. The event was distributed live in prime time by FOX Sports Net

Fox Sports Net

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

and its regional sports network affiliates. This was the first Bellator card with no Tournament Bouts.

Background

Chas Skelly was expected to fight Georgi Karakhanyan in a fourth season featherweight tournament qualifier bout. However, Skelly injured himself during training and was forced to pull out of the bout. Skelly's replacement was to be UFC veteran, Alvin Robinson

Alvin Robinson

Alvin L Robinson is an American professional mixed martial artist currently fighting as a lightweight for the Bellator Fighting Championships. He is a former Ring of Fire lightweight champion...

. However, Robinson was also forced to pull out of the bout due to injury. Robinson was replaced by WEC veteran Anthony Leone

Anthony Leone

Anthony Leone is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the featherweight division.-Background:Anthony Leone spent 11 months training alongside at the B.J. Penn Mixed Martial Arts academy in Hilo, Hawaii, when Leone was 20 years old. Leone currently coaches at New York Jiu Jitsu...

.

Toney Canales and J.C. Pennington were set to fight, but for unknown reasons, the fight was pulled at the last minute.

The card took place in the same city and during the same night and time as the 2010 NFL season opener, a rematch of the NFC Championship game between the New Orleans Saints

New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are members of the South Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League ....

and the Minnesota Vikings

Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...

, a decision unprecedented in MMA to counter-program a marquee NFL event which may have had adverse effect on local ticket sales.

Results

Main Card

Lightweight bout: Eric Larkin vs. Marcus Andrusia

Larkin defeated Andrusia via submission (guillotine choke) at 2:46 of round 1.

Lightweight bout: Rich Clementi
Rich Clementi
Richard Thomas Clementi is a journeyman American mixed martial artist. He holds notable wins over Terry Etim, Sam Stout, Fabio Holanda, Melvin Guillard and Anthony Johnson.-Mixed martial arts career:...

vs. Carey Vanier
Carey Vanier
Carey D. Vanier Sr. is a Guyanese-American mixed martial arts fighter. He currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships in the lightweight division. He also took part in the season two tournament held by Bellator.-MMA career:...

Vanier defeated Clementi via split decision (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) to earn a spot in Bellator's Season Four Lightweight Tournament.

Middleweight bout: Matt Horwich
Matt Horwich
Matthew Peter Horwich is a journeyman American mixed martial artist. Previously fighting for the Portland Wolfpack of the International Fight League where he held the middleweight championship in 2007, BAMMA and in the UFC, he holds notable wins over past and present UFC fighters Jake Rosholt,...

vs. Eric Schambari
Eric Schambari
Eric Schambari is an American professional mixed martial artist who competes in the middleweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2005, Schambari has most notably fought in World Extreme Cagefighting and was a semi-finalist in the Bellator Season Two: Middleweight Tournament, where he...

Schambari defeated Horwich via split decision (30–27, 28–29, 30–27).

Featherweight bout: Georgi Karakhanyan
Georgi Karakhanyan
Georgi Karakhanyan is an Armenian-American mixed martial artist who competes in the featherweight division.-Background:Georgi was born in Moscow to Armenian parents, but is now an American citizen. He was raised in Moscow, Russia...

vs. Anthony Leone
Anthony Leone
Anthony Leone is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the featherweight division.-Background:Anthony Leone spent 11 months training alongside at the B.J. Penn Mixed Martial Arts academy in Hilo, Hawaii, when Leone was 20 years old. Leone currently coaches at New York Jiu Jitsu...

Karakhanyan defeated Leone via unanimous decision (29–28, 30–27, 30–27) to earn a spot in Bellator's Season Four Featherweight Tournament.

Local Feature Fights

Heavyweight bout: Tony Roberts vs. Kelvin Doss

Roberts defeated Doss via submission (punches) in round 1.

Bantamweight bout: Jonathan Mackles vs. Brock Kerry

Mackles defeated Kerry via split decision (30–27, 28–29, 29–28).

Welterweight bout: Josh Rafferty
Josh Rafferty
Josh Rafferty is an American mixed martial artist from Cincinnati, Ohio. He best known for his appearance on the first season of The Ultimate Fighter, a reality television series produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship...

vs. Charlie Rader

Rader defaetd Rafferty via TKO (punches) at 1:14 of round 1.

Lightweight bout: Scott O'Shaughnessy vs. Gabe Woods

O'Shaughnessy defeated Woods via submission (armbar) at 2:11 of round 3.

Bellator XXIX

Bellator XXIX was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

event held by Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

. The event took place on Thursday, September 16, 2010 at The Rave

The Rave

The Rave / Eagles Club is a concert venue in the United States and landmark in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Rave hosts touring bands from across the globe.-Divisions:...

in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...

. The card featured tournament fights in Bellator's third season

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three

. The event was distributed live in prime time by FOX Sports Net

Fox Sports Net

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

and its regional sports network affiliates.

Background

Bellator 29 was the first sanctioned MMA event in Wisconsin.

Chico Camus was set to compete against Jameel Massouh

Jameel Massouh

Jameel Badih Massouh is an American mixed martial artist who is most known for competing in the featherweight division for World Extreme Cagefighting...

in a catchweight bout. However, Camus injured his sternum in a car accident and was forced to withdraw from the bout. Kyle Dietz

Kyle Dietz

Kyle Emerson Dietz is an American mixed martial artist. He currently fights in WEC's bantamweight division. In his last fight, Dietz fought Brad Pickett on December 19, 2009 at WEC 45...

was set to be Camus' replacement; however, an illness forced Ulysses Gomez

Ulysses Gomez

Ulysses Gomez is a Mexican American mixed martial artist who competes in the flyweight and bantamweight divisions. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Gomez has mostly fought in PFC and Tachi Palace Fights and is also known for his grappling career....

out of his bout in the bantamweight tournament and Bryan Goldsby

Bryan Goldsby

Bryan Goldsby is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He is currently signed by Bellator Fighting Championships.-MMA career:...

, who was set to fight Nik Mamalis, stepped in for Gomez and returned to the tournament. Dietz was dropped from the card, and Mamalis stepped in to fight Massoush.

Justin Lemke was originally set to fight David Oliva, but Oliva was forced out of the bout due to weight issues. Jason Guida

Jason Guida

Jason Guida is an American professional mixed martial artist and grappler who has fought for EliteXC, World Extreme Cagefighting, Bellator, Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, Fight Festival, Adrenaline MMA and Ironheart Crown....

stepped in for Oliva as his replacement.

The Massouh/Mamalis bout was originally contracted as a 140 lbs. catchweight fight. Massouh initially weighed in two pounds over the limit, but successfully made weight two hours after the original weigh-in on a subsequent attempt. Jason Guida weighed in five pounds over the 210 lbs. catchweight limit in his bout against Justin Lemke.

Results

Main Card

Catchweight (140 lbs) bout: Jameel Massouh
Jameel Massouh
Jameel Badih Massouh is an American mixed martial artist who is most known for competing in the featherweight division for World Extreme Cagefighting...

vs. Nick Mamalis
Nick Mamalis
Nick Mamalis is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the bantamweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Mamalis has most notably fought in Bellator Fighting Championships where he will compete in the Bellator season three bantamweight tournament.-Early career:Mamalis...

Massouh defeated Mamalis via submission (guillotine choke) at 4:27 in round 1.

Heavyweight Semifinal: Damian Grabowski
Damian Grabowski
Damian Grabowski is a Polish mixed martial artist. He fights in the heavyweight division and competed for various European MMA promotions, gathering a perfect record of twelve wins in a streak, all by stoppage, with four of them earned in a one-night sixteen men heavyweight tournament, before...

vs. Cole Konrad
Cole Konrad
Cole Konrad is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He is currently a student at the University of Minnesota and former wrestler for the Golden Gophers. Konrad won a gold medal at the 2005 Pan-American Championships...

Konrad defeated Grabowski via unanimous decision (30–26, 30–27, 30–27).

Heavyweight Semifinal: Neil Grove
Neil Grove
Neil Grove is a South African-born English heavyweight mixed martial artist currently signed with Bellator Fighting Championships. He holds a black belt rank of shodan in Gōjū-ryū karate...

vs. Alexey Oleinik
Alexey Oleinik
Alexey Oleinik is a Ukrainian-Russian mixed martial artist who is a M-1 Global veteran and has fought for Bellator Fighting Championships, Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, BodogFight and YAMMA Pit Fighting.-Mixed martial arts career:...

Grove defeated Oleinik via TKO (punches) at 0:45 of round 1.

Middleweight bout: Matt Major vs. Brett Cooper
Brett Cooper
Brett Cooper is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League ....

Cooper defeated Major via TKO (punches) at 1:27 of round 2.

Local Feature Fights

Catchweight (215 lbs) bout: Justin Lemke vs. Jason Guida
Jason Guida
Jason Guida is an American professional mixed martial artist and grappler who has fought for EliteXC, World Extreme Cagefighting, Bellator, Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, Fight Festival, Adrenaline MMA and Ironheart Crown....

Lemke defeated Guida via split decision (29–28, 28–29, 29–28).

Lightweight bout: Nick Dupees vs. Sasa Perkic

Perkic defeated Dupees via unanimous decision (30–27, 30 -27, 29–28).

Middleweight bout: Luis Ramirez vs. Kyle Weickhardt

Weickhardt defeated Ramirez via KO (head kick) at 0:30 of round 1.

Bellator XXX

Bellator XXX was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

event held by Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

. The event took place on Thursday, September 23, 2010, at Fourth Street Live!

Fourth Street Live!

Fourth Street Live! is a entertainment and retail complex located on 4th Street, between Liberty and Muhammad Ali Boulevard, in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It is owned and was developed by the Cordish Company; it was designed by Louisville architects, Bravura Corporation...

in Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

. The card featured tournament fights in Bellator's third season

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three

. The event was distributed live in prime time by FOX Sports Net

Fox Sports Net

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

and its regional sports network affiliates.

Background
Bryan Goldsby replaced Ulysses Gomez

Ulysses Gomez

in the bantamweight tournament after Gomez was forced to withdraw due to staph infection.

Results

Main Card

Welterweight bout: Jacob McClintock
Jacob McClintock
Jacob Patrick McClintock is an American mixed martial artist. McClintock is a welterweight fighter and has a record of 6-2, all six win have been stopped in round one. He is most known for his stint with Bellator Fighting Championships...

vs. Brent Weedman
Brent Weedman
Brent Weedman is an American professional mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2005, Weedman has mostly competed in the United States and is a Bellator Fighting Championships veteran. Weedman will also compete in the Bellator Season...

Weedman defeated McClintock via TKO (punches) at 3:05 of round 1 to earn a spot in Bellator's Season Four Welterweight Tournament.

Middleweight bout: Jeremy Horn
Jeremy Horn
Jeremy Graham Horn is an American mixed martial artist. He is one of the most experienced fighters in the sport with a professional record of 88–21–5...

vs. Bryan Baker
Bryan Baker (fighter)
Bryan Baker is an American professional mixed martial artist who competes in the middleweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Baker fought in various promotions, most notably World Extreme Cagefighting and Bellator Fighting Championships...

Baker defeated Horn via unanimous decision (30–27, 29–28, 29–28).

Bantamweight Semifinal bout: Bryan Goldsby
Bryan Goldsby
Bryan Goldsby is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He is currently signed by Bellator Fighting Championships.-MMA career:...

vs. Zach Makovsky
Zach Makovsky
Zachory Paul "Zach" Makovsky is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the bantamweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Makovsky has most notably fought in Elite Xtreme Combat and Bellator Fighting Championships where he is the Bellator Bantamweight Champion.-Early...

Makovsky defeated Goldsby via unanimous decision (30–27, 29–28, 29–28).

Bantamweight Semifinal bout: Jose Vega vs. Ed West
Ed West (fighter)
Ed West is an American mixed martial artist. He currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships in the Bantamweight division and was featured in the fourth season tournament and is currently fighting in the fifth season tournament....

West defeated Vega via split decision (29–28, 28–29, 29–28).

Local Feature Fights

Middleweight bout: John Troyer vs Josh Clark

Troyer defeated Clark via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Heavyweight bout: Ron Sparks
Ron Sparks
Ron Sparks is a Canadian comedian, actor and writer. He was born in Chatham-Kent, Ontario but lives in Toronto, Ontario, where he is best known as a stand-up comedian and regular and favourite juror on MuchMusic's highest-rated show, Video on Trial. He also starred as The Judge in the MuchMusic...

vs. Greg Maynard

Sparks defeated Maynard via KO (punch) at 0:50 of round 1.

Featherweight bout: T.J. Barber vs B.J. Ferguson

Ferguson defeated Barber via submission (armbar) of round 2.

Middleweight bout: Mike Fleniken vs. Jeremiah Riggs
Jeremiah Riggs
Jeremiah Riggs is an American professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight and middleweight divisions. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Riggs has made a name for himself mainly fighting in the Midwest, and his homestate of Mississippi...

Riggs defeated Fleniken via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28).

Welterweight bout: Stoney Hale vs Mike O'Donnell

O'Donnell defeated Hale via submission (kimura) at 0:50 of round 2.

Bellator XXXI

Bellator XXXI was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

event held by Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

. The event took place on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at L'Auberge du Lac Resort

L'Auberge du Lac Resort

-History:The state of Texas does not allow casino gambling and, as a result, the gaming industry has flourished along Louisiana's border with that state...

in Lake Charles, Louisiana

Lake Charles, Louisiana

Lake Charles is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Located in Calcasieu Parish, a major cultural, industrial, and educational center in the southwest region of the state, and one of the most important in...

. The card featured tournament fights in Bellator's third season

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three

. The event was distributed live in prime time by FOX Sports Net

Fox Sports Net

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

and its regional sports network affiliates.

Background

A previously announced fight between Ricco Rodriguez

Ricco Rodriguez

Ricco Rodriguez is an American mixed martial artist and former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion. He has also competed in Pride Fighting Championship, EliteXC, International Fight League, BAMMA, World Extreme Cagefighting and King of the Cage.-Early life:Rodriguez grew up in the...

and Dave Herman

Dave Herman (fighter)

Dave Herman is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Herman received a significant amount of buzz from fans and media for being undefeated in his first fifteen fights and beating his opponents impressively, having only been...

, was scrapped from this card due to Rodriguez suffering a knee injury. Michal Kita served as Rodriguez's replacement.

Results

Main Card

Women's (115 lbs.) Semifinal bout: Jessica Aguilar
Jessica Aguilar
Jessica Aguilar is a Mexican American female mixed martial artist who currently competes for Bellator Fighting Championships...

vs. Zoila Frausto
Zoila Frausto
Zoila L. Gurgel is an American professional female mixed martial artist. Her nickname comes from the popular 1990s TV series Xena: Warrior Princess...

Frausto defeated Aguilar via split decision (30–27, 27–30, 30–27).

Women's (115 lbs.) Semifinal bout: Megumi Fujii
Megumi Fujii
Megumi Fujii is a female Japanese mixed martial artist. She is currently the #3-ranked pound-for-pound female MMA fighter in the world by MMARising.com and the #1-ranked female flyweight according to the Unified Women's MMA Rankings.-Biography:Fujii specializes mainly in submission fighting and is...

vs. Lisa Ward
Lisa Ward
Lisa Ward is an American professional female mixed martial artist. She has fought in HOOKnSHOOT, Smackgirl, DEEP and Bellator Fighting Championships....

Fujii defeated Ward via submission (armbar) at 1:39 of round 1

Welterweight bout: Yoshiyuki Yoshida
Yoshiyuki Yoshida
is a Japanese mixed martial artist competing in the welterweight division. A student of former Shooto competitor Noboru Asahi, he has competed in Shooto, Cage Force, and the UFC...

vs. Chris Lozano
Chris Lozano
Chris Lozano is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships and North American Allied Fight Series .-Background:...

Lozano defeated Yoshida via TKO (Corner Stoppage) at 5:00 of Round 2 to earn a spot in Bellator's Season Four Welterweight Tournament.

Local Feature Fights

Heavyweight bout: Mark Holata vs Shawn Jordan

Holata defeated Jordan via KO (punch) at 1:13 of round 1.

Lightweight bout: John Harris vs Kyle Miers

Harris defeated Miers via submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 0:49 of round 2.

Middleweight bout: Tim Ruberg vs Aaron Davis

Ruberg defeated Davis via submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 1:44 of round 2.

Heavyweight bout: Dave Herman
Dave Herman (fighter)
Dave Herman is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Herman received a significant amount of buzz from fans and media for being undefeated in his first fifteen fights and beating his opponents impressively, having only been...

vs Michał Kita
Michał Kita
Michał 'Masacre' Kita is a Polish mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the heavyweight division and is ranked as #2 Polish Heavyweight Mixed Martial Artist by MMAROCKS.PLand #8 European Heavyweight Mixed Martial Artist by groundandpound.de...

Herman defeated Kita via submission (Omoplata) at 3:16 of round 1.

Catchweight (165 lbs) bout: Scott Stapp vs Mike Chandler

Chandler defeated Stapp via TKO (Punches) at 1:57 of round 1.

Bellator XXXII

Bellator XXXII was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

event held by Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

. The event took place on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at Kansas City Power & Light District

Kansas City Power & Light District

in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

. The card featured the tournament finals fights in Bellator's third season

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three

. The event was distributed live in prime time by FOX Sports Net

Fox Sports Net

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

and its regional sports network affiliates.

Background

This was the fourth Bellator

Bellator Fighting Championships

event to be held at the Kansas City Power & Light District, all in 2010. Bellator XVI, Bellator XXII and Bellator XXVI have also been held at this venue.

The event hosted bouts to crown the first Bellator Heavyweight and Bantamweight Champions.

Results

Main Card

Heavyweight Tournament Final: Cole Konrad
Cole Konrad
Cole Konrad is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He is currently a student at the University of Minnesota and former wrestler for the Golden Gophers. Konrad won a gold medal at the 2005 Pan-American Championships...

vs. Neil Grove
Neil Grove
Neil Grove is a South African-born English heavyweight mixed martial artist currently signed with Bellator Fighting Championships. He holds a black belt rank of shodan in Gōjū-ryū karate...

Konrad defeated Grove via submission (keylock) at 4:45 of round 1 to become the first Bellator Heavyweight Champion.

Bantamweight Tournament Final: Zach Makovsky
Zach Makovsky
Zachory Paul "Zach" Makovsky is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the bantamweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Makovsky has most notably fought in Elite Xtreme Combat and Bellator Fighting Championships where he is the Bellator Bantamweight Champion.-Early...

vs. Ed West
Ed West (fighter)
Ed West is an American mixed martial artist. He currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships in the Bantamweight division and was featured in the fourth season tournament and is currently fighting in the fifth season tournament....

Makovsky defeated West by unanimous decision (50–45, 50–45, 49–46) to become the first Bellator Bantamweight Champion.

Welterweight bout: Ryan Thomas vs. Jim Wallhead
Jim Wallhead
Jim Wallhead is an English professional mixed martial artist, based in Leicestershire, England, who competes in the welterweight division. Wallhead's background is in Judo, where he holds a Black Belt having trained under Olympic silver medallist Neil Adams...

Wallhead defeated Thomas by unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) to earn a spot in Bellator's Season Four Welterweight Tournament.

Welterweight bout: Chris Page vs. Michael Chandler

Chandler defeated Page via submission (guillotine choke) at 0:57 of round 1.

Local Feature Fights

Featherweight bout: Ryan Roberts vs. Eric Marriott

Marriott defeated Roberts via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 30–27).

Welterweight bout: Chad Reiner vs. Rudy Bears

Bears defeated Reiner via KO (Punches) at 1:29 of round 1.

Bantamweight bout: Jared Downing vs. Danny Tims

Downing defeated Tims via split decision (30–27, 28–29, 30–27).

Featherweight bout: Shane Hutchison vs. Brian Davidson

Davidson defeated Hutchison via KO (punches) at 0:54 of round 1.

Bellator XXXIII

Bellator XXXIII was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

event held by Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

. The event took place on Thursday, October 21, 2010 at Liacouras Center

Liacouras Center

The Liacouras Center, a 10,200-seat multi-purpose venue, is located on the Temple University campus along North Broad Street in North Philadelphia. The venue is a full entertainment arena featuring concerts, family shows, Temple Men’s and Women’s Basketball games, Philadelphia KiXX games, and other...

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

. The card featured a tournament final fight in Bellator's third season

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three

. The event was distributed live in prime time by FOX Sports Net

Fox Sports Net

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

and its regional sports network affiliates.

Background

The main event was supposed to feature Eddie Alvarez

Eddie Alvarez

Eddie Alvarez is an American mixed martial artist, and former Bellator Fighting Championships lightweight champion. Alvarez also competes for the Japanese DREAM promotion, and fought once for ProElite's EliteXC promotion...

defending his lightweight title against season two's lightweight tournament winner, Pat Curran

Pat Curran

Pat Curran is a retired American football tight end. Curran played for the National Football League Los Angeles Rams and San Diego Chargers between 1969 and 1978....

. Curran injured himself during training so Alvarez instead fought Roger Huerta

Roger Huerta

Roger Huerta , is an American mixed martial artist. He initially gained exposure by competing in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and later Bellator Fighting Championships.-Early life:...

in a non-title fight.

Wilson Reis

Wilson Reis

Wilson Reis is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu black belt. Reis received his black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu from instructor Roberto Godoi. As a brown belt he won the 2004 Jiu Jitsu World Championships...

vs. Deividas Taurosevičius

Deividas Taurosevičius

Deividas Taurosevičius is a Lithuanian mixed martial artist.-Career:Taurosevičius started his professional MMA career in 2002, primarily competing on cards in Massachusetts and New Jersey...

was set to air as a part of the night's main card; however, the fight was not aired for unknown reasons.

Results

Main Card

Lightweight bout: Eddie Alvarez
Eddie Alvarez
Eddie Alvarez is an American mixed martial artist, and former Bellator Fighting Championships lightweight champion. Alvarez also competes for the Japanese DREAM promotion, and fought once for ProElite's EliteXC promotion...

vs. Roger Huerta
Roger Huerta
Roger Huerta , is an American mixed martial artist. He initially gained exposure by competing in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and later Bellator Fighting Championships.-Early life:...

Alvarez defeated Huerta via TKO (doctor stoppage) at 5:00 of round 2.

Welterweight Championship bout: Lyman Good
Lyman Good
Lyman Good is an American mixed martial artist and instructor. He currently fights as a welterweight in the Bellator Fighting Championships, and won the first Bellator Welterweight Tournament.-Biography:...

(c) vs. Ben Askren
Ben Askren
Ben Askren is an American former amateur wrestler for the University of Missouri and U.S. Olympic team. He is now a mixed martial artist and the current Bellator Welterweight Champion.-Wrestling:...

Askren defeated Good via unanimous decision (49–46, 48–47, 50–45) to become the new Bellator Welterweight Champion.

Welterweight bout: Rick Hawn
Rick Hawn
Rick Hawn is an American former 2004 US Olympic judo team member and is now a mixed martial artist. As a judoka he won numerous medals at U.S. national championships, 2 medals at the Pan American Games, and finished 9th at the 2004 Olympics. Hawn was born in Chicago; but when he was young, his...

vs. LeVon Maynard

Hawn defeated Maynard via KO (punches) at 4:53 of round 1 to earn a spot in Bellator's Season Four Welterweight Tournament.

Local Feature Fights

Featherweight bout: Wilson Reis
Wilson Reis
Wilson Reis is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu black belt. Reis received his black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu from instructor Roberto Godoi. As a brown belt he won the 2004 Jiu Jitsu World Championships...

vs. Deividas Taurosevičius
Deividas Taurosevičius
Deividas Taurosevičius is a Lithuanian mixed martial artist.-Career:Taurosevičius started his professional MMA career in 2002, primarily competing on cards in Massachusetts and New Jersey...

Reis defeated Taurosevičius via split decision (29–28, 28–29, 29–28).

Light Heavyweight bout: Jamal Patterson
Jamal Patterson
Jamal Patterson is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He fought with the New York Pitbulls in the now-defunct International Fight League.-MMA career:...

vs. Tim Carpenter
Tim Carpenter (fighter)
Tim Carpenter, is an American mixed martial artist currently fighting for Bellator Fighting Championships. He trains out of Philadelphia at Balance Studios.-Mixed martial arts:...

Carpenter defeated Patterson via split decision (29–28, 28–29, 29–28).

Lightweight bout: Luiz Azeredo
Luiz Azeredo
Luiz Azeredo is a Brazilian Welterweight mixed martial artist, fighting out of the Chute Boxe Academy, Curitiba, Brazil. He has fought in the PRIDE and Cage Rage....

vs Edward Guedes

Azeredo defeated Guedes via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Featherweight bout: Kenny Foster
Kenny Foster
Kenny Foster is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships.-Bellator Fighting Championships:...

vs. Lester Caslow

Foster defeated Casow via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28).

Catchweight (130 lbs) bout: Tuan Pham vs Nick Cottone

Cottone defeated Pham via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28).

Bantamweight bout: Lewis Cassner vs. Francis Evans

Evans defeated Cassner via Submission (Triangle) at 3:20 of round 1.

Bellator XXXIV

Bellator XXXIV was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

event held by Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

. The event took place on Thursday, October 28, 2010 at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Hard Rock Cafe

in Hollywood, Florida

Hollywood, Florida

. The card featured the final round of the Bellator 115-pound women's tournament in Bellator's third season

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Three

, as well as Hector Lombard

Hector Lombard

Hector Lombard is a Cuban-Australian mixed martial artist. Lombard was a Judo Olympian competing at the Sydney 2000 Olympic games, and is a multiple time national champion and world finalist. After 2000, Lombard began pursuing a career in mixed martial arts...

defending his middleweight title. The event was distributed live in prime time by FOX Sports Net

Fox Sports Net

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

and its regional sports network affiliates.

Results

Main Card

Middleweight Championship bout: Hector Lombard
Hector Lombard
Hector Lombard is a Cuban-Australian mixed martial artist. Lombard was a Judo Olympian competing at the Sydney 2000 Olympic games, and is a multiple time national champion and world finalist. After 2000, Lombard began pursuing a career in mixed martial arts...

(c) vs. Alexander Shlemenko
Alexander Shlemenko
Alexander Pavlovich Shlemenko is a Russian mixed martial artist currently fighting in the Middleweight division for Bellator Fighting Championships.-Early career:...

Lombard defeats Shlemenko by unanimous decision (49–46, 49–46, 49–46).

Women's (115 lbs.) Tournament Final: Megumi Fujii
Megumi Fujii
Megumi Fujii is a female Japanese mixed martial artist. She is currently the #3-ranked pound-for-pound female MMA fighter in the world by MMARising.com and the #1-ranked female flyweight according to the Unified Women's MMA Rankings.-Biography:Fujii specializes mainly in submission fighting and is...

vs. Zoila Frausto
Zoila Frausto
Zoila L. Gurgel is an American professional female mixed martial artist. Her nickname comes from the popular 1990s TV series Xena: Warrior Princess...

Frausto defeated Fujii via split decision (48–47, 47–48, 49–46) to become the Bellator Women's Champion.

Middleweight bout: Mike Bernhard vs. Dragan Tešanović
Dragan Tešanović
Dragan "Gagi" Tešanović is a Serbian mixed martial arts fighter who competes in the middleweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Tešanović mostly competed in the Eastern European circuit, before signing with the Bellator Fighting Championships...

Bernhard defeated Tešanović via unanimous decision (30–27, 29–28, 29–28).

Light Heavyweight bout: Raphael Davis vs. Tony Lopez
Tony Lopez (fighter)
Tony Lopez is an American mixed martial artist fighting out of Huntington Beach, California with Team Wildman Vale Tudo. He is the current Gladiator Challenge Heavyweight Champion and was formerly the Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight King of the Cage Champion...

Davis defeated Lopez via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Local Feature Fights

Welterweight bout: William Kuhn vs. John Kelly

Kelly defeated Kuhn via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28).

Bantamweight bout: Ralph Acosta vs. Tulio Quintanila

Acosta defeated Quintanila via split decision (29–28, 28–29, 29–28).

Middleweight bout: Frank Carrillo vs. Moyses Gabin

Carrillo defeated Gabin via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Middleweight bout: Igor Almeida vs. Dan Cramer
Dan Cramer
Daniel John Cramer is an American mixed martial artist. He was a competitor on SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest. Cramer currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships in their middleweight division....

Cramer defeated Almeida via TKO (cut) at 2:36 of round 1.

Catchweight (160 lbs) bout: Bounmy Somchay vs. J.P. Reese
J.P. Reese
James Patrick Reese was born on December 21, 1980 in Livonia, Michigan. He is a full-time MMA fighter who bases his training at American Top Team in Coconut Creek, Florida.-Amateur wrestling career:...

Reese defeated Somchay via TKO (strikes) at 3:32 of round 1.

Women's Flyweight (115 lbs) Tournament Bracket

Bantamweight Tournament Bracket

Heavyweight Tournament Bracket

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