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Mount Pleasant, MI. – The Bellator 82 weigh-ins have been completed from Mount Pleasant, Michigan in preparation for Bellator’s Friday night event at The Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, which features the finals of the Bellator Season 7 Welterweight Tournament.
Bellator 82 will be broadcast LIVE on Friday, November 30th at 8:00 pm ET/7:00pm CT on MTV2 and in commercial-free HD on EPIX, as well as in Spanish language on mun2. The preliminary card will begin at 7:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm CT and streamed LIVE and FREE on Spike.com.
The full results from the Bellator 82 weigh-in are below:
MAIN CARD:
Welterweight Tournament Finals: Lyman Good (170) vs. Andrey Koreshkov (171)
Catchweight Feature Fight(160 lbs.): David Rickels (159.8) vs. Jason Fischer (159.4)
Middleweight Feature Fight: Doug Marshall (185.4) vs. Kala Hose (185.6)
Lightweight Feature Fight: Tony Hervey (154.4) vs. Alexander Sarnavskiy (155.8)
PRELIMINARY CARD:
Featherweight Feature Fight: Mario Navarro (140) vs. Anthony Bain(141.2)
Bantamweight Feature Fight: Chad Coon (135.6) vs. Shawn Bunch (136)
Middleweight Feature Fight: Brendan Seguin (185.2) vs. Giva Santana (185.8)
Light Heavyweight Feature Fight: Terry Davinney (205) vs. Matt Van Buren (205.8)
Catchweight(162 lbs.) Feature Fight: John Schulz (159) vs. Hector Garcia (162.2)
Featherweight Feature Fight: Jeremy Czarnecki (145.4) vs. Justin Houghton (145.2)
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.realcombatmedia.com
About Bellator Fighting Championships
Bellator Fighting Championships is the world’s largest tournament based Mixed Martial Arts organization. Televised to nearly 500 Million homes worldwide, Bellator’s majority owner is entertainment giant Viacom. In the United States, Bellator can be seen on MTV2, in commercial-free HD on EPIX. Starting in January of 2013 Bellator will be broadcast on MMA television leader, Spike TV. With over 150 world-class athletes under contract, Bellator is home to many of the sport’s top athletes. Bellator’s founder &CEO, Bjorn Rebney, an experienced fighting sports and entertainment executive with a deep commitment to the purity and integrity of the sport of MMA and its athletes, believed 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 political/subjective side of fighting sports. Bellator Fighting Championships’ executive team is comprised of 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 Southern, California.
About MTV2
Available in approximately 80 million homes MTV2 is man’s best friend. Since its launch in 1996, the network has reflected the subversive interests and behaviors of young men with a compelling and diverse programming line-up inspired by ordinary guys who do extraordinary things. MTV2 is part of Viacom Media Networks, one of the world’s leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. For more information, go to www.mtvpress.com or follow us on Twitter @MTVPress.
About EPIX
EPIX, a joint venture between Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), its Paramount Pictures unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), is a next-generation premium entertainment channel, video-on-demand and online service launched on October 30, 2009. With access to more than 15,000 motion pictures spanning the vast libraries of its partners and other studios, EPIX provides a powerful entertainment experience with more feature films on demand and online and more HD movies than any other service. It is the only premium service providing its entire monthly line-up of new Hollywood titles, classic feature films, original series, music and comedy specials through the linear channel, video-on-demand and online at EpixHD.com, the leading online destination for movies.
EPIX has made the commitment to deliver the industry’s most expansive online collection of movies, making more than 3,000 titles available on EpixHD.com. The service is available to over 30 million homes nationwide through distribution partners including Charter Communications, Cox Communications, DISH Network, Mediacom Communications, NCTC, Suddenlink Communications and Verizon FiOS.
About mun2
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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