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 115 pounds. Also some Bellator champions defended their titles against the during the season.
Events
Bellator 24
Bellator 24 was a mixed martial arts event held by Bellator Fighting Championships. The event took place on Thursday, August 12, 2010 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The card began Bellator Season Three 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 vs. Herbert Goodman
- Heavyweight Quarterfinal: Eddie Sanchez vs. Neil Grove
- Women's Quarterfinal: Megumi Fujii vs. Carla Esparza
- Women's Quarterfinal: Jessica Aguilar vs. Lynn Alvarez
- Lightweight bout: Yves Edwards vs. Luis Palomino
- Featherweight bout: Eric Luke vs. Farkhad Sharipov
- Bantamweight bout: Tulio Quintanilla vs. Brian Eckstein
Bellator 25
Background
A lightweight bout featuring Mark Miller 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 vs. Dan Hornbuckle
- Heavyweight Quarterfinal: Cole Konrad vs. Rogent Lloret
- Heavyweight Quarterfinal: Damian Grabowski vs. Scott Barrett
- Women's Quarterfinal: Jessica Penne vs. Zoila Frausto
- Welterweight bout: Shonie Carter vs. Torrance Taylor
- Welterweight bout: Brian Gassaway vs. Kevin Knabjian
- Welterweight bout: John Kolosci vs. Kenny Robertson
- Lightweight bout: Keoki Cypriano vs. Eric Kriegermeier
Bellator 26
Background
Rory Markham was scheduled to fight Steve Carl, however Markham was not medically cleared. Tyler Stinson took his place.
Results
Main Card
- Catchweight bout: Tyler Stinson vs. Steve Carl
- Heavyweight Quarterfinal: Mike Hayes vs. Alexey Oleinik
- Bantamweight Quarterfinal: Jose Vega vs. Danny Tims
- Women's Quarterfinal: Aisling Daly vs. Lisa Ward
- Middleweight bout: Zak Cummings vs. Rudy Bears
- Featherweight bout: Brian Davidson vs. Kevin Croom
- Middleweight bout: Brian Imes vs. John Ott
- Light Heavyweight bout: Demetrius Richards vs. Jeb Chiles
Bellator 27
Results
Main Card
- Featherweight Championship bout: Joe Soto vs. Joe Warren
- Bantamweight Quarterfinal: Travis Reddinger vs. Ulysses Gomez
- Bantamweight Quarterfinal: Zach Makovsky vs. Nick Mamalis
- Bantamweight Quarterfinal: Ed West vs. Bryan Goldsby
- Middleweight bout: Andrew Craig vs. Rodrigo Pinheiro
- Lightweight bout: Aaron Barringer vs. Gilbert Jimenez
- Heavyweight bout: Dale Mitchell vs. Richard Odoms
- Welterweight bout: Joe Christopher vs. Andrew Chappelle
- Light Heavyweight bout: Jon Kirk vs. Shane Faulkner
- Featherweight bout: Steven Peterson vs. Ernest De La Cruz
Bellator 28
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. However, Robinson was also forced to pull out of the bout due to injury. Robinson was replaced by WEC veteran Anthony Leone.
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 and the Minnesota Vikings, a decision 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
- Lightweight bout: Rich Clementi vs. Carey Vanier
- Middleweight bout: Matt Horwich vs. Eric Schambari
- Featherweight bout: Georgi Karakhanyan vs. Anthony Leone
- Heavyweight bout: Tony Roberts vs. Kelvin Doss
- Bantamweight bout: Jonathan Mackles vs. Brock Kerry
- Welterweight bout: Josh Rafferty vs. Charlie Rader
- Lightweight bout: Scott O'Shaughnessy vs. Gabe Woods
Bellator 29
Background
Bellator 29 was the first sanctioned MMA event in Wisconsin.
Chico Camus was set to compete against Jameel Massouh in a catchweight bout. However, Camus injured his sternum in a car accident and was forced to withdraw from the bout. Kyle Dietz was set to be Camus' replacement; however, an illness forced Ulysses Gomez out of his bout in the bantamweight tournament and Bryan Goldsby, 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 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 bout: Jameel Massouh vs. Nick Mamalis
- Heavyweight Semifinal: Damian Grabowski vs. Cole Konrad
- Heavyweight Semifinal: Neil Grove vs. Alexey Oleinik
- Middleweight bout: Matt Major vs. Brett Cooper
- Catchweight bout: Justin Lemke vs. Jason Guida
- Lightweight bout: Nick Dupees vs. Sasa Perkic
- Middleweight bout: Luis Ramirez vs. Kyle Weickhardt
Bellator 30
Background
Bryan Goldsby replaced Ulysses Gomez in the bantamweight tournament after Gomez was forced to withdraw due to staph infection.
Results
Main Card
- Welterweight bout: Jacob McClintock vs. Brent Weedman
- Middleweight bout: Jeremy Horn vs. Bryan Baker
- Bantamweight Semifinal bout: Bryan Goldsby vs. Zach Makovsky
- Bantamweight Semifinal bout: Jose Vega vs. Ed West
- Middleweight bout: John Troyer vs. Josh Clark
- Heavyweight bout: Ron Sparks vs. Greg Maynard
- Featherweight bout: T.J. Barber vs. B.J. Ferguson
- Middleweight bout: Mike Fleniken vs. Jeremiah Riggs
- Welterweight bout: Stoney Hale vs. Mike O'Donnell
Bellator 31
Background
A previously announced fight between Ricco Rodriguez and Dave Herman, was scrapped from this card due to Rodriguez suffering a knee injury. Michal Kita served as Rodriguez's replacement.
Results
Main Card
- Women's Semifinal bout: Jessica Aguilar vs. Zoila Frausto
- Women's Semifinal bout: Megumi Fujii vs. Lisa Ward
- Welterweight bout: Yoshiyuki Yoshida vs. Chris Lozano
- Heavyweight bout: Mark Holata vs. Shawn Jordan
- Lightweight bout: John Harris vs. Kyle Miers
- Middleweight bout: Tim Ruberg vs. Aaron Davis
- Heavyweight bout: Dave Herman vs. Michał Kita
- Catchweight bout: Scott Stapp vs. Mike Chandler
Bellator 32
Background
This was the fourth Bellator 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 vs. Neil Grove
- Bantamweight Tournament Final: Zach Makovsky vs. Ed West
- Welterweight bout: Ryan Thomas vs. Jim Wallhead
- Welterweight bout: Chris Page vs. Michael Chandler
- Featherweight bout: Ryan Roberts vs. Eric Marriott
- Welterweight bout: Chad Reiner vs. Rudy Bears
- Bantamweight bout: Jared Downing vs. Danny Tims
- Featherweight bout: Shane Hutchison vs. Brian Davidson
Bellator 33
Background
The main event was supposed to feature Eddie Alvarez defending his lightweight title against season two's lightweight tournament winner, Pat Curran. Curran injured himself during training so Alvarez instead fought Roger Huerta in a non-title fight.
Wilson Reis vs. Deividas Taurosevičius 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 vs. Roger Huerta
- Welterweight Championship bout: Lyman Good vs. Ben Askren
- Welterweight bout: Rick Hawn vs. LeVon Maynard
- Featherweight bout: Wilson Reis vs. Deividas Taurosevičius
- Light Heavyweight bout: Jamal Patterson vs. Tim Carpenter
- Lightweight bout: Luiz Azeredo vs. Edward Guedes
- Featherweight bout: Kenny Foster vs. Lester Caslow
- Catchweight bout: Tuan Pham vs. Nick Cottone
- Bantamweight bout: Lewis Cassner vs. Francis Evans
Bellator 34
Results
Main Card
- Middleweight Championship bout: Hector Lombard vs. Alexander Shlemenko
- Women's Tournament Final: Megumi Fujii vs. Zoila Frausto
- Middleweight bout: Mike Bernhard vs. Dragan Tešanović
- Light Heavyweight bout: Raphael Davis vs. Tony Lopez
- Welterweight bout: William Kuhn vs. John Kelly
- Bantamweight bout: Ralph Acosta vs. Tulio Quintanilla
- Middleweight bout: Frank Carrillo vs. Moyses Gabin
- Middleweight bout: Igor Almeida vs. Dan Cramer
- Catchweight bout: Bounmy Somchay vs. J.P. Reese
Tournaments