Bellator is back with hot tournament action! Plus there's title defenses and a pay-per-view to boot!
Featherweight
Title Fight
- Pat Curran vs Daniel Straus
Tournament
- Diego Nunes vs Patricio Freire
- Desmond Green vs Fabricio da Silva
- Shahbulat Shamhalaev vs Akop Stepanyan
- Andrew Fisher vs Joe Taimanglo
My picks: Nunes, Freire or Shamhalaev. It seems really weird that Nunes and Freire would be a quarterfinal fight, though.
Lightweight
Title Fight
- Michael Chandler vs Eddie Alvarez
Tournament
- Marcus Davis vs Alexander Sarnavskiy
- John Alessio vs Will Brooks
- Saad Awad vs Martin Stapleton
- Rich Clementi vs Rob Sinclair
Picks: Sarnavskiy and Brooks. Also, I thought Clementi retired after Marcin Held beat him. Weird.
Welterweight
Season 8 Tournament Finals
- Douglas Lima vs Ben Saunders
Tournament
- War Machine vs Vaughn Anderson
- Matthew Riddle vs Luis Melo Jr
- Brent Weedman vs Justin Baesman
- Mark Scanlon vs Herman Terrado
Thoughts: I don't really have a pick for this tournament since I don't know over half the guys included (Seriously, Herman Terrado is the cheap knockoff version of retired wrestler, Human Tornado, right?). I guess I'll go with Matt Riddle's favorite superhero, Weedman.
Middleweight
Title Fight
- Alexander Shlemenko vs Brett Cooper
- Justin Torrey vs Andreas Spang
- Jeremy Kimball vs Perry Filkins
- Mikkel Parlo vs Brian Rogers
- Jason Butcher vs Giva Santana
Prediction: Rogers, possibly Spang.
Light Heavyweight
Interim Title Fight
- Emmanuel Newton vs Muhammed Lawal
Check out the breakdown of what's going on when after the jump.
