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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,...

is an American 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...

 promotion, and the following is a history of its champions in each weight class.

Heavyweight Championship

206 pounds (93.4 kg) to 265 pounds (120.2 kg)
No. Name Date Location Defenses
1   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...


October 14, 2010
Kansas City, MO

Light Heavyweight Championship

186 pounds (84.4 kg) to 205 pounds (93 kg)
No. Name Date Location Defenses
1   Christian M'Pumbu
Christian M'Pumbu
Christian M'Pumbu is a French professional mixed martial artist of Congolese descent. He is the first and current Bellator Light Heavyweight Champion.-Background:...

 
May 21, 2011
Lake Charles, LA

Middleweight Championship

171 pounds (77.6 kg) to 185 pounds (83.9 kg)
No. Name Date Location Defenses
1   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...


June 19, 2009
Hollywood, FL

Welterweight Championship

156 pounds (70.8 kg) to 170 pounds (77.1 kg)
No. Name Date Location Defenses
1   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:...


June 12, 2009
Uncasville, CT
2   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:...

October 21, 2010
Philadelphia, PA

Lightweight Championship

146 pounds (66.2 kg) to 155 pounds (70.3 kg)
No. Name Date Location Defenses
1   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...


June 19, 2009
Hollywood, FL
2   Michael Chandler
Michael Chandler
Michael Chandler Jr. is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter fighting in the lightweight division and previously in the welterweight division. He is currently under contract with Bellator Fighting Championships where he is the Bellator Lightweight Champion...

November 19, 2011
Hollywood, FL

Featherweight Championship

136 pounds (61.7 kg) to 145 pounds (65.8 kg)
No. Name Date Location Defenses
1   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...


June 5, 2009
Ontario, CA
2   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...

September 2, 2010
San Antonio, TX

Bantamweight Championship

126 pounds (57.2 kg) to 135 pounds (61.2 kg)
No. Name Date Location Defenses
1   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...


October 14, 2010
Kansas City, MO

Women's Flyweight Championship

106 pounds (48.1 kg) to 115 pounds (52.2 kg)
No. Name Date Location Defenses
1   Zoila Gurgel
October 28, 2010
Hollywood, FL

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season One
Bellator Fighting Championships: Season One
Bellator Fighting Championships: Season One was the first installment of the Bellator Fighting Championships -produced series. It started broadcasting April 3, 2009, through an exclusive television agreement with ESPN Deportes. The episodes had a one day tape delay.-Bellator I:Bellator I was a...

 (April 3, 2009 - June 19, 2009)

Weight Division Champion Runner-up Event Date
Featherweight   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...

 
  Yahir Reyes
Yahir Reyes
Yahir Reyes is a Mexican mixed martial artist. He is most known for his stint with Bellator Fighting Championships, fighting in their first season featherweight tournament. Reyes made it to the final round of the tournament which took place at Bellator 10, fighting Joe Soto...

 
Bellator 10  June 5, 2009
Welterweight   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:...

 
  Omar De La Cruz
Omar de la Cruz
Jesús Omar de la Cruz, or simply Omar de la Cruz, is a Dominican professional mixed martial artist...

 
Bellator 11  June 12, 2009
Middleweight   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...

 
  Jared Hess
Jared Hess (fighter)
Jared Hess is an American mixed martial artist. He is most known for his stint fighting for Bellator Fighting Championships in their middleweight division. He was runner up in the middleweight tournament after losing to Hector Lombard.-Biography:Hess grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and attend...

 
Bellator 12  June 19, 2009
Lightweight   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...

 
  Toby Imada
Toby Imada
Timoteo Tobias "Toby" Imada born July 16, 1978 is an American mixed martial artist of Japanese and Mexican descent. He fights for Bellator Fighting Championships in their lightweight division...

 
Bellator 12  June 19, 2009

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Two
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...

 (April 8, 2010 - June 24, 2010)

Weight Division Champion Runner-up Event Date
Lightweight   Pat Curran
Pat Curran (fighter)
Pat Curran is an American mixed martial artist who competes as a Lightweight and Featherweight. He is the cousin of World Extreme Cagefighting veteran and former Featherweight title challenger Jeff Curran...

 
  Toby Imada
Toby Imada
Timoteo Tobias "Toby" Imada born July 16, 1978 is an American mixed martial artist of Japanese and Mexican descent. He fights for Bellator Fighting Championships in their lightweight division...

 
Bellator 21  June 10, 2010
Welterweight   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:...

 
  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...

 
Bellator 22  June 17, 2010
Middleweight   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:...

 
  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...

 
Bellator 23  June 24, 2010
Featherweight   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...

 
  Patricio Freire
Patricio Freire
Patricio "Pitbull" Freire is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He competes in the featherweight division.-Bellator:After stringing together an impressive undefeated record on the local Brazilian circuit, he made his American debut on April 22, 2010 for the Bellator Fighting Championships in their...

 
Bellator 23  June 24, 2010

Bellator Fighting Championships: 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...

 (August 12, 2010 - October 28, 2010)

Weight Division Champion Runner-up Event Date
Heavyweight   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...

  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...

Bellator 32  October 14, 2010
Bantamweight   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...

 
  Ed West
Ed West
Edward "Ed" Lee West, III , nickname 'the Toolbox'. , is a former professional American football player. A 6'1", 243-lb. tight end from Auburn University, West was never drafted by an NFL team but did play in over 200 NFL games in 14 seasons from 1984 to 1997 for the Green Bay Packers,...

 
Bellator 32  October 14, 2010
Women's Flyweight (115 lbs)   Zoila Gurgel    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...

 
Bellator 34  October 28, 2010

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Four
Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Four
Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Four was the fourth installment of the Bellator Fighting Championships. Mixed martial arts tournaments were held in multiple weight classes, including three of the original tournament classes: Welterweight, Lightweight and Featherweight...

 (March 5, 2011 - May 21, 2011)

Weight Division Champion Runner-up Event Date
Welterweight   Jay Hieron
Jay Hieron
James Thomas Hieronymus , better known as Jay Hieron, is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He is known for his wrestling base and heavy hands....

 
  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...

 
Bellator 43  May 7, 2011
Lightweight   Michael Chandler
Michael Chandler
Michael Chandler Jr. is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter fighting in the lightweight division and previously in the welterweight division. He is currently under contract with Bellator Fighting Championships where he is the Bellator Lightweight Champion...

 
  Patricky Freire
Patricky Freire
Patricky Freire is an Brazilian mixed martial artist. He is currently fighting in the Bellator Season 4 Lightweight Tournament.-Mixed martial arts career:...

 
Bellator 44  May 14, 2011
Featherweight   Patricio Freire
Patricio Freire
Patricio "Pitbull" Freire is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He competes in the featherweight division.-Bellator:After stringing together an impressive undefeated record on the local Brazilian circuit, he made his American debut on April 22, 2010 for the Bellator Fighting Championships in their...

 
  Daniel Straus
Daniel Straus
Daniel Straus , formerly known as Daniel Mason-Straus, is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships.-Wrestling Career:...

 
Bellator 45  May 21, 2011
Light Heavyweight   Christian M'Pumbu
Christian M'Pumbu
Christian M'Pumbu is a French professional mixed martial artist of Congolese descent. He is the first and current Bellator Light Heavyweight Champion.-Background:...

 
  Richard Hale
Richard Hale (fighter)
Richard Hale is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter who competes in the light heavyweight division. He currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships.-Rage in the Cage:...

 
Bellator 45  May 21, 2011

Bellator Fighting Championships: 2011 Summer Series
Bellator Fighting Championships: 2011 Summer Series
Bellator Fighting Championships: 2011 Summer Series was the first installment of the Bellator Fighting Championships Summer Series which started in June 2011. A Mixed martial arts tournament was held in the Featherweight weight class.-Bellator XLVI:...

 (June 25, 2011 - August 20, 2011)

Weight Division Champion Runner-up Event Date
Featherweight   Pat Curran
Pat Curran (fighter)
Pat Curran is an American mixed martial artist who competes as a Lightweight and Featherweight. He is the cousin of World Extreme Cagefighting veteran and former Featherweight title challenger Jeff Curran...

 
  Marlon Sandro
Marlon Sandro
Marlon Sandro is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He competes in the Featherweight division.-Early career:Sandro made his professional MMA debut in November 2004...

 
Bellator 48  August 20, 2011

Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Five
Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Five
Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Five was the fifth and latest installment of the Bellator Fighting Championships, and began on September 10, 2011...

 (September 27, 2011 - November 26, 2011)

Weight Division Champion Runner-up Event Date
Welterweight   Douglas Lima
Douglas Lima
Douglas Lima is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division. He currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships. He is the former MFC Welterweight champion.-Early career:...

 
  Ben Saunders
Ben Saunders
Ben Saunders is a British polar explorer, endurance athlete, and motivational speaker.He is best known for skiing solo to the North Pole in 2004, and for blogging live from his expeditions...

 
Bellator 57  November 12, 2011
Middleweight   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:...

 
  Vitor Vianna
Vitor Vianna
Vitor Vianna is a Brazilian mixed martial artist, who has competed in mixed martial arts events in Brazil, Holland, and in the United States. He is the #3 ranked Middleweight prospect in the world. He is also ranked as the #69 Light Heavyweight fighter in the world by FightMatrix.com. This ranking...

 
Bellator 57  November 12, 2011
Bantamweight   Eduardo Dantas
Eduardo Dantas
Eduardo Dantas is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who competes in the bantamweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Dantas has mostly fought for Shooto Brazil, where he has competed for the Shooto 132-pound world title.-Background:Dantas trains with Nova União...

 
  Alexis Vila
Alexis Vila
|-|Loss|align=center|11-1|Eduardo Dantas|Decision |Bellator 59||align=center|3|align=center|5:00|Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States|Bellator Season 5 Bantamweight Tournament Final|-|Win|align=center|11-0|Marcos Galvão|Decision...

 
Bellator 59  November 26,2011
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