Bellator 93 LIVE results and play-by-play
Bellator 93 takes place this evening at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston, Maine and features Bellator’s lightweight tournament finals with Marcin Held taking on Dave Jansen in the main event.
Bellator 93 takes place this evening at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston, Maine and features Bellator’s lightweight tournament finals with Marcin Held taking on Dave Jansen in the main event.
The fighter weigh-ins for Bellator 93 are in the books and all fighters made weight without issue. Competing in the Season 8 lightweight tournament finals, Marcin Held weighed in at 155.9 pounds, while his opponent, Dave Jansen weighed in at 155.8 pounds.
All eyes will be on Bellator March 21st as the Lightweight and Welterweight Tournaments are decided as submission ace and Polish phenom Marcin Held takes on Dave Jansen in the long awaited $100,000 Lightweight Tournament Final, while the final two Season 8 Welterweight participants square off for their guaranteed title shot, live on Spike TV.
Bellator’s Summer Series continues with Bellator 72 this evening at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Fla. Karl Amoussou and Bryan Baker square off in the Welterweight tournament final, and Paul Daley makes his Bellator debut against Rudy Bears. Also taking place are the Light Heavyweight tournament semifinals and a rematch between Marius Zaromskis and Waachiim Spiritwolf.
Bellator 72 will feature a headline bout between welterweights Bryan Baker (18-3) and Karl Amoussou (15-4-2). Additionally, the event will showcase a bad blood welterweight trilogy fight between Marius Zaromskis and Waachiim Spiritwolf.
Bellator Fighting Championships will once again head to the Sunshine State as the promotion will host Bellator 72 from The University of South Florida’s Sun Dome in Tampa on July 20 LIVE on MTV2 and in commercial-free HD on EPIX.
Fighter weigh-ins for Bellator 68 took place this evening in preparation for Friday night’s fight card from Atlantic City, New Jersey. All fighters made weight without issue.
Bellator 68 is headlined with Daniel Straus vs. Marlon Sandro in the season six featherweight finals. Marcos Galvao and Travix Marx will also battle in a bantamweight semifinal bout.
ProMMAnow.com caught up with John Alessio following his second round submission of Shawn Fitzsimmons at Superior Cage Combat 2 at the Orleans Hotel and Casino Saturday night in Las Vegas.
In this week’s blog, Tachi Palace Fights’ Jeremy Luchau discusses the issue of fighter exclusivity and explains how they’ve had to deal with the issue when fighters failed to get prior approval for taking a fight outside the promotion.