Bellator Fighting Championships..

[D-Bo Dre]

Anyone heard of this new mma org?? I'm going to the first event @ the HardRock in Hollywood, FL next Friday..Pretty excited.. Eddie Alvarez, Nick Gonzalez, Jorge Masvidal will all be fighting..

Bellator Fighting Championships is a first of its kind Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) promotion that will be broadcast nationally in the U.S. starting April 2009 through an exclusive television agreement with ESPN Deportes. Bellator will also be broadcast to countries around the world through a collection of broadcast agreements.

[Brown Ninja]

so no ppv? Will it be live in the US?

[D-Bo Dre]

Bellator’s events will be nationally televised through ESPN Deportes, with each broadcast focusing solely on the fights and fighters. Bellator Fighting Championships is not a “reality television” program, but is instead real sports programming in its purest form. Bellator is simply the best fighting the best to determine who becomes champion and who earns the largest purse. Bellator’s premiere season consists of 12 two-hour events which will be broadcast every Saturday night in primetime, with the first show airing April 4, 2009

The nationally televised events will showcase a combination of tournament and non-tournament special feature bouts. There will be four simultaneous tournaments taking place in season #1 over a three month period: one in each of the Featherweight (145 lb.), Lightweight (155 lb.), Welterweight (170 lb.) and Middleweight (185 lb.) divisions. Eight world-class fighters from around the globe will be represented in each division.

To win the Bellator Championship, a fighter must win a total of three fights, each consisting of three five-minute rounds over a three month period. At the end of the initial three month, 12-event season, Bellator will have crowned four Bellator Champions and will have awarded each Champion $175,000. In round #1 of the competition, winners earn $25,000. In round #2 (Semi-Finals), winners earn $50,000 and in the Finals, winners earn $100,000.

[Brown Ninja]

are there any other big names outside of Alvarez?

[Brown Ninja]

the premise sounds very interesting I hope it works and does not end up like the IFL

[WARMachine]

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Dave Herman, Dave Menne, and Shango are the only other names i know.

Pretty weak Organization at this point. But who knows.