Bellator Fighting Championships will head to "The Tar Heel State" this Thursday night (Feb. 14, 2013) at the Bojangles Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The main card will air live on Spike TV on fight night, beginning at 10 p.m. ET.

Headlining the main event will be a bantamweight title fight between reigning champion Eduardo Dantas and his friend, mentor and teammate Marcos Galvao. This wil...

Bellator: Brian Rogers discusses reffing issues

Bellator has a very solid product, and that goes without question. Their latest showing on Friday night proved once again, that they've definitely got the goods. The night was filled with exciting fights, and one of the more notable ones featured the always entertaining Brian Rogers against super tough, Dominique Steele. Rogers, who had a Fund-A-F...

Bellator returned to Ohio last night (Oct. 26, 2012) with the continuation of its season seven welterweight tournament with the semifinals plus a pair of top Ohio talents being put on display. There were plenty of exciting moments, although things would have been much better had the referees not made themselves so visible in the final two bouts.

In the main event of the evening, former Bellator ...

FAIRBORN, Ohio - Full time employment is suiting Brian Rogers just fine so far. Thanks for asking.

The 28-year-old Ohio native reestablished himself as a future middleweight tournament threat with a one-sided unanimous decision beat down of Dominique Steele at Bellator 78.

Prior to the bout, Rogers made the decision to leave his job as a special education teacher and focus on MMA full time. It ...

Bellator's Season 7 welterweight tournament field had its finalists set at Friday's Bellator 78 event.

Video highlights of the tournament's semifinals now are available.

They include Andrey Koreshkov's devastating knockout of Marius Zaromskis and Lyman Good's second-round TKO of Michail Tsarev. Other highlights include Brian Rogers' win over Dominique Steele and Daniel Straus' submission of Alv...

Another stoppage-laden Bellator show is in the books. Bellator 78 unrolled the Welterweight Tournament semifinals and ten fights in all, seven of which were finished.

The promotion's first welterweight champion, Lyman Good, battled Russian Michail Tsarev in the headliner, while former Dream champion Marius Zaromskis met another Russian prospect, Andrey Koreshkov, in the second welterweight tourn...

As has become our weekly ritual, Bloody Elbow will host a live video stream of the main card and preliminary lineup for tonight's Bellator 78 event. The main card begins at 8:00 p.m. ET and is capped off by the semifinals of the Welterweight Tournament, which pit inaugural Bellator welterweight champion Lyman Good vs. Michail Tsarev and Lithuanian bomber Marius Zaromskis vs. surging Russian prosp...

As has become our weekly ritual, Bloody Elbow will host a live video stream of the main card and preliminary lineup for tonight's Bellator 78 event. The main card begins at 8:00 p.m. ET and is capped off by the semifinals of the Welterweight Tournament, which pit inaugural Bellator welterweight champion Lyman Good vs. Michail Tsarev and Lithuanian bomber Marius Zaromskis vs. surging Russian prosp...

As has become our weekly ritual, Bloody Elbow will host a live video stream of the main card and preliminary lineup for tonight's Bellator 78 event. The main card begins at 8:00 p.m. ET and is capped off by the semifinals of the Welterweight Tournament, which pit inaugural Bellator welterweight champion Lyman Good vs. Michail Tsarev and Lithuanian bomber Marius Zaromskis vs. surging Russian prosp...

As has become our weekly ritual, Bloody Elbow will host a live video stream of the main card and preliminary lineup for tonight's Bellator 78 event. The main card begins at 8:00 p.m. ET and is capped off by the semifinals of the Welterweight Tournament, which pit inaugural Bellator welterweight champion Lyman Good vs. Michail Tsarev and Lithuanian bomber Marius Zaromskis vs. surging Russian prosp...

As has become our weekly ritual, Bloody Elbow will host a live video stream of the main card and preliminary lineup for tonight's Bellator 78 event. The main card begins at 8:00 p.m. ET and is capped off by the semifinals of the Welterweight Tournament, which pit inaugural Bellator welterweight champion Lyman Good vs. Michail Tsarev and Lithuanian bomber Marius Zaromskis vs. surging Russian prosp...

As has become our weekly ritual, Bloody Elbow will host a live video stream of the main card and preliminary lineup for tonight's Bellator 78 event. The main card begins at 8:00 p.m. ET and is capped off by the semifinals of the Welterweight Tournament, which pit inaugural Bellator welterweight champion Lyman Good vs. Michail Tsarev and Lithuanian bomber Marius Zaromskis vs. surging Russian prosp...

Ah, Bellator. You and your welterweights. Every tournament has been completely awesome and this one is no different. Like the smile of Fedor when he bites into a double -dipped cone of mint chocolate chip, you are always satisfying. Tonight, Bellator 78 would decide the finals of the season 7 welterweight tournament, give Brian Rogers a new head to punch and fill some time for featherweight tou...

As has become our weekly ritual, Bloody Elbow will host a live video stream of the main card and preliminary lineup for tonight's Bellator 78 event. The main card begins at 8:00 p.m. ET and is capped off by the semifinals of the Welterweight Tournament, which pit inaugural Bellator welterweight champion Lyman Good vs. Michail Tsarev and Lithuanian bomber Marius Zaromskis vs. surging Russian prosp...

As has become our weekly ritual, Bloody Elbow will host a live video stream of the main card and preliminary lineup for tonight's Bellator 78 event. The main card begins at 8:00 p.m. ET and is capped off by the semifinals of the Welterweight Tournament, which pit inaugural Bellator welterweight champion Lyman Good vs. Michail Tsarev and Lithuanian bomber Marius Zaromskis vs. surging Russian prosp...

As has become our weekly ritual, Bloody Elbow will host a live video stream of the main card and preliminary lineup for tonight's Bellator 78 event. The main card begins at 8:00 p.m. ET and is capped off by the semifinals of the Welterweight Tournament, which pit inaugural Bellator welterweight champion Lyman Good vs. Michail Tsarev and Lithuanian bomber Marius Zaromskis vs. surging Russian prosp...

We got ya' covered. For tonight's Bellator 78 event, Bloody Elbow is providing a fight preview, a live video stream of the entire event with play-by-play and discussion followed by a gif-infested recap of the results.

Tonight, Bellator is back in action with Bellator 78. The night's main focus is the semi-final round of their season 7 elterweight tournament, with former Bellator champion Lyman G...

Shaun Asher knows his window is shorter than most, and that's why he's completely committed to his cause.

At 33 years old, he didn't start training in mixed martial arts until just over three years ago, but with a history in professional athletics including a stint in pro basketball overseas, he was able to make the transition pretty easily.

Training out of Vision MMA in the Cincinnati area, As...

Bellator Fighting Championships returns TONIGHT (Oct. 26, 2012) to the Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio, with the season seven welterweight tournament semifinals and a trio of exciting Ohio standouts.

MMAmania.com will provide LIVE blow-by-blow, round-by-round coverage of Bellator 78 below, beginning with the MTV2 telecast at 8 p.m. ET. In addition, we'll deliver up-to-the-minute quick results of a...

Tonight, Bellator is back in action with Bellator 78. The night's main focus is the semi-final round of their season 7 elterweight tournament, with former Bellator champion Lyman Good in the main event, and former Dream champion Marius Zaromskis in the other half of the bracket. As always, Bellator airs live on MTV2, starting at 8:00 p.m. ET with the prelim card airing at 6:00 p.m. ET on Spike.co...