Bellator Holds Featherweight Tournament Semifinals From the Kansas Star Arena, Friday October 11th

Newport Beach, CA. (July 26, 2013) – The stacked Bellator Featherweight Tournament continues Friday, October 11^th from the Kansas Star Arena, located just south of Wichita, KS.  The event will feature the Bellator Featherweight Tournament Semifinals, along with some of Kansas’s premier athletes.

Tickets for the event are on sale now and can be purchased at www.kansasstararena.com or by visiting the Kanas Star Arena Box Office. The event will broadcast live starting at 8 p.m. CT on Spike TV, as well as in Spanish language on mun2. The preliminary card will be streamed live and free exclusively on Spike.com starting at 6 p.m. CT.

The loaded field includes, two of Brazil’s top featherweights, Patricio Pitbull and Diego Nunes, along with newcomer Des “The Predator” Green, and the return of Shahbulat Shamhalaev. More details about the event will be provided in the upcoming weeks, as these explosive featherweights are all looking to punch their ticket to the tournament final.

For more information, visit Bellator.com, follow Bellator on Twitter @BellatorMMA, follow Bellator Chairman & CEO Bjorn Rebney @BjornRebney and check out Bellator on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BellatorMMA.

Bellator MMA is the world’s largest tournament based Mixed Martial Arts organization. Televised to nearly 500 Million homes worldwide in over 115 countries, Bellator’s majority owner is entertainment giant Viacom.  In the United States, Bellator can be seen on Spike TV, the MMA television leader. With over 150 world-class athletes under contract, Bellator is home to many of the sport’s top mixed martial artists. Bellator’s founder & CEO, Bjorn Rebney, is an experienced fighting sports and entertainment executive with a deep commitment to the purity and integrity of the sport of MMA and its athletes.  Bellator’s core philosophy is that title shots should be earned, not given. This belief gave rise to Bellator’s real sport, tournament-based format, which gives Bellator’s tournaments a true playoff feel that keeps the sport true and distances itself from the subjective side of fighting sports found in organizations that utilize a matchmaking/casting formula.  Bellator MMA is comprised of an executive team that includes top industry professionals in television production, live event orchestration, fighter development/relations, venue procurement, sponsorship creation/development, international licensing, marketing, advertising, publicity and commission relations.  Bellator is based in Newport Beach, California.

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mun2 is the leading Hispanic cable network for young millennial adults 18-34.  From reality to music, on-air to digital, mun2 creates original content that resonates across a multi-screen platform.  Young, vibrant and unabashedly Latino, mun2 has a distribution to over 38 million households. The network is part of Telemundo Media, a division of NBCUniversal.

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