Pat Curran's Stunning KO of Mike Ricci at Bellator 14

Pat Curran landed a highlight reel knockout of Mike Ricci at Bellator 14 at the Chicago Theatre on Thursday night. Check out the highlight reel...

Bellator Season 2 - Middleweight Video Preview

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MMA Live Recaps TUF9 Finale, Bellator XII, and Strikeforce

ESPN's MMALive recaps The Ultimate Fighter Season Nine Finale, Bellator's season ending event featuring Eddie Alvarez and Hector Lombard, and Strikeforce in Washington, plus the political situation subverting MMA legislation in New York.

Bellator XII Fight Highlight Videos

Bellator Lightweight Championship: Eddie Alvarez vs. Toby Imada

Bellator Middleweight Championship: Hector Lombard vs. Jared Hess

Stefanie Guimareas KOs Yvonne Reis

Bellator XII Post-Fight Interviews: Champs Alvarez & Lombard

Highlights of the post fight interview with CEO Bjorn Rebney, Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez, Middleweight Champion Hector Lombard and others following Bellator XII on June 19th, 2009 in Hollywood, Fla.

MMA Live Looks Back at UFC 99, Ahead to TUF Finale and more...

MMA Live takes a look back at UFC 99, and a look forward to Strikeforce Challengers, The Ultimate Fighter Finale, and Bellator FC.

Bellator Welterweight Championship Highlights - Lyman Good vs Omar De La Cruz

Taped June 12, 2009 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT. Highlights from the Lyman Good vs. Omar De La Cruz Welterweight Championship title bout. Lyman Good scores a dominating victory.

Bellator X Fight of the Night - Diego Garijo vs Saad Awad

Bellator IX Highlight: Chad Leonhardt KOs Dan Keenan

Kerry Vera vs Leslie Smith - Full Bellator Fight Video

Watch the full fight between Kerry Vera and Leslie Smith from Friday night's Bellator VII event.

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Highlights from the Bellator VII Welterweight Semi-Finals

Highlights from the May 15 Bellator VII welterweight semi-finals featuring Omar De La Cruz vs. Dave Menne and Lyman Good vs. Jorge Ortiz.

Bellator VI Highlight - Yahir Reyes' Spinning Backfist KOs Estevan Payan

Bellator VI Highlight - Yahir Reyes' Spinning Backfist KOs Estevan Payan.

Toby Imada vs. Jorge Masvidal: Submission of the Year?

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Bellator Takes A Week Off

Bellator IV, Bellator FC's fourth stop on a twelve-week run of tournament based action, was canceled by the promotion on Thursday.

The show was booked for the World Arena in Colorado Springs, Co.

The format was an extremely ambitious concept for any promotion, let alone a new one.

"We're doing what the WEC does in one year in twelve weeks," Bellator matchmaker Matt Stansell recently told MMAInsider.

Instead of a fourth consecutive date, the heavyweights will fill out the undercard of the promotion's third show, and lightweight winners from the show's first round will be given an extra week to prepare.

"(It was) an effort to give all the Lightweight fighters more time to get back into top conditioning shape for the semi-finals," said Caroline Rubenstein, a spokesperson for Bellator.

Rubenstein said the promotion's broadcast schedule was locked in place, but could not say whether its event schedule would remain unchanged.

Bellator Upcoming TV Start Times

According to information from TV Guide Interactive, Tivo's listings, and Bellator.com's "TV Airtimes" page (http://www.bellator.com/schedule/espn-deportes.html), there will be a different start time just about every week for Bellator Fighting Championships on ESPN Deportes, due to various live sporting events (mostly soccer matches). It was originally listed as though each Saturday's broadcast would start at 9:00 PM, but that is no longer the case.

According to the aforementioned listings, here are the premiere times for each of the upcoming episodes of Bellator FC on ESPN Deportes:

Saturday, April 11: Start time of 8:30 PM

Saturday, April 18: Start time of 10:00 PM

Saturday, April 25: Start time of 8:30 PM

MMA Live on Dana White's Rant, WEC, Bellator, Strikeforce, and More

Bellator I Salaries and Medical Suspensions

Fighter salaries and medical suspensions For Bellator Fighting Championships I were released on Tuesday by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

True to their pay structure, all tournament participants in last Friday's show were paid $10,000 to win with a $15,000 win bonus.

The winners from the evening, Eddie Alvarez, Jorge Masvidal, Yahir Reyes, Estevan Payan, Joe Soto, and Toby Imada all picked up the full purses and will move on to the tournament's second round, where the potential purse goes up to $50,000.

Undercard salaries:

Jonathan Brookins ($4,000/win bonus was $2,000) def. Stephen Ledbetter (2,000)

Lorenzo Borgomeo ($4,000/win bonus was $2,000) def. Daniel Morales ($3,000)

James Brasco (3,000/win bonus was $1,500) def. Kevin Abrante ($1,500)

Moyses Gabin ($2,000/win bonus was $1,000) def. Chris Decaro ($1,500)

Gary Padilla ($4,000/win bonus was $2,000) def. Daniel Sarafien ($2,000)

Total Disclosed Payroll: $237,000

Medical Suspensions

Only three participants were put on the bench following Friday's Bellator I in Hollywood, Florida, and to the promotion's sigh of relief, no winners from the first round of competition were amongst the wounded.

Nick Agallar is suspended 30 days following his TKO loss to Jorge Masvidal.

Ben Greer is suspended 30 days following his TKO loss to Joe Soto.

Daniel Sarafian is suspended 30 days following his TKO loss to Gary Padilla.

Bellator Announces Broadcast Team

Jon Anik and Jason Chambers will call the plays for Bellator Fighting Championships' English language broadcast, the promotion announced in a press release on Thursday.

Anik's lead anchor duties ESPN's "MMA Live" have made him a recognizable face on the MMA scene, while Chambers was the host of "The Human Weapon" on the History Channel. Chambers also carries an 18-5 professional record as a welterweight.

On the Spanish language side of the broadcast--the Latino market has been a main target of Bellator from the beginning--commentators George X and Manny Rodriguez will announce the action.

X writes for Latino MMA publication Extreme Fighting and has called the NBA finals, Winter Olympics, and Super Bowl in addition to hosting the Spanish broadcast of the X Games.

Rodriguez is a former King of the Cage heavyweight champion and has commentated for several Latino MMA promotions.

“We could not be happier with both of our on-air broadcast teams," said Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney in the release. "Jon, Jason, Manny and George bring a wealth of legitimate MMA experience and in-depth MMA reporting backgrounds to our English and Spanish language announcing booths. Each one of these guys knows the game inside and out and will bring that expertise and excitement to our viewers."

The promotion kicks off its twelve-week tournament series tomorrow at the Seminole Hard Rock and Casino in Hollywood, Fla. Broadcast partner ESPN Deportes will air the event the following day.