List of current Bellator fighters
The Bellator MMA (formerly known as "Bellator Fighting Championships") promotion was started in 2008 by Bjorn Rebney and Brad Epstein as a tournament based alternative to other MMA organizations such as the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Strikeforce.[1] Prior to 2015, when president Scott Coker made the decision to drop the 8-man tournament format,[2] Bellator fighters participated in a series of tournament bouts in a set weight class over a season (usually between 10 and 13 events over 3 or 4 months). The winners of these tournaments were crowned Bellator champions, with the winners of successive tournaments in the same weight class earning the spot of no. 1 contender.
This list is an up to date roster of those fighters currently under contract with the Bellator brand. Unlike the UFC, Bellator does allow its fighters to compete in other promotions, so many fighters on this list may appear in MMA events outside of Bellator. Fighters are organized by weight class and within their weight class by their number of professional MMA fights. Fighters with the same number of fights are listed in order of their number of wins. Fighters with the same MMA record are listed alphabetically.
Each fight record has four categories: wins, losses, draws, and no-contests.[3] All fight records in this article are displayed in that order, with fights resulting in a no-contest listed in parentheses.
Contents
- 1 Recent cuts
- 2 Recent signings
- 3 Heavyweights (265 lb, 120 kg)
- 4 Light Heavyweights (205 lb, 93 kg)
- 5 Middleweights (185 lb, 84 kg)
- 6 Welterweights (170 lb, 77 kg)
- 7 Lightweights (155 lb, 70 kg)
- 8 Featherweights (145 lb, 65 kg)
- 9 Bantamweights (135 lb, 61 kg)
- 10 Women's Featherweights (145 lb, 65 kg)
- 11 Women's Flyweights (125 lb, 56 kg)
- 12 See also
- 13 References
- 14 External links
Recent cuts
These fighters have been released from their Bellator contracts, or announced their retirement, over the course of the last month. If their release has not been announced then they have been listed here based upon their removal from the Bellator's rosters.
Name | Division | Bellator record | |
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Will Brooks | Lightweight | 9–1 |
Recent signings
The fighters in this section have either signed with Bellator in the last month, have recently returned from an announced retirement, or have yet to make their Bellator return or debut.
Name | Division | MMA record | |
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Carrington Banks | Lightweight | 4–0 |
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Bobby Brents | Heavyweight | 17–5 |
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Bruna Ellen | Women's flyweight | 2–0 |
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James Gallagher | Featherweight | 3–0 |
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Quinton Jackson | Light heavyweight | 36–11 |
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Satoshi Ishii | Light heavyweight | 14–5–1 |
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Sergei Kharitonov | Heavyweight | 23–5 |
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Kenya Miranda | Women's flyweight | 2–2 |
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Matt Mitrione | Heavyweight | 9–5 |
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Max Nunes | Middleweight | 16–3 |
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Mikkel Parlo | Middleweight | 13–2 |
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Wanderlei Silva | Light heavyweight | 35–12–1 (1) |
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Jarod Trice | Light heavyweight | 0–0 |
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Bruna Vargas | Women's flyweight | 2–0 |
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Guilherme Vasconcelos | Welterweight | 7–3 |
Heavyweights (265 lb, 120 kg)
Name | Nickname | MMA record | Bellator record | |
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Cheick Kongo | Kongo | 24–10–2 | 6–2 |
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Raphael Butler | The Silencer | 9–2–1 | 4–2–1 |
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Joey Beltran[4] | The Mexicutioner | 17–13 (1) | 3–4 |
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Vitaly Minakov | 17–0 | 5–0 | |
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Javy Ayala | Eye Candy | 8–5 | 3–2 |
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Dan Charles | The Man | 10–3–1 | 3–2–1 |
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Vinicius Queiroz | Spartan | 8–4 | 3–2 |
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Augusto Sakai | 9–0–1 | 4–0–1 | |
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Bobby Lashley | The Dominator | 14–2 | 4–0 |
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Josh Diekmann | The Freight Train | 15–7 (1) | 2–1 (1) |
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Tony Johnson | 10–2 | 3–0 | |
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Alex Huddleston | The Shaved Gorilla | 6–2 | 2–1 |
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Kimbo Slice | 5–2 (1) | 1–0 (1) | |
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Justin Wren | The Big Pygmy | 11–2 | 2–0 |
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James Thompson | The Colossus | 20–16 (1) | 1–1 |
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Chase Gormley[4] | 13–5 | 1–1 | |
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Ken Shamrock | The World's Most Dangerous Man | 28–17 | 0–2 |
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Rashad Coulter | 5–1 | 1–0 | |
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Dhaffir Harris | Dada 5000 | 2–0 (1) | 0–0 (1) |
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Zach Rosol | 1–1 | 0–1 | |
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Ewerton Teixeira[5] | 3–1 | 0–1 | |
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Bobby Brents[6] | Zombie | 17–5 | 0–0 |
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Tyrell Fortune | 0–0 | 0–0 | |
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Sergei Kharitonov[7] | The Paratrooper | 23–5 | 0–0 |
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Matt Mitrione | Meathead | 9–5 | 0–0 |
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Dmitriy Sosnovskiy | Wicked Machine | 9–0 | 0–0 |
Light Heavyweights (205 lb, 93 kg)
Name | Nickname | MMA record | Bellator record | |
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Muhammed Lawal | King Mo | 19–5 (1) | 8–4 |
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Emanuel Newton | The Hardcore Kid | 26–10–1 | 8–4 |
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Brian Rogers | The Professional Predator | 12–9 | 5–7 |
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Liam McGeary (C) | 11–0 | 8–0 | |
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Linton Vassell | The Swarm | 16–5 (1) | 5–2 |
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Virgil Zwicker | Rezdog | 14–5–1 | 3–2–1 |
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Mikhail Zayats | 22–8 | 3–2 | |
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Houston Alexander | The Assassin | 16–13–1 (2) | 1–3–1 |
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Quinton Jackson | Rampage | 36–11 | 3–0 |
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Phil Davis | Mr. Wonderful | 16–3 (1) | 3–0 |
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Tito Ortiz | The Huntington Beach Bad Boy | 18–12–1 | 2–1 |
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Philipe Lins | Monstro | 9–1 | 2–1 |
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Francis Carmont | Limitless | 24–11 | 2–1 |
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Luc Bondole | 5–2–2 | 1–1–1 | |
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Guilherme Viana | 7–2 | 1–1 | |
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Alessio Sakara | Legionarius | 18–11 (2) | 1–0 |
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Stephan Bonnar | The American Psycho | 15–9 | 0–1 |
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Satoshi Ishii | 14–5–1 | 0–0 | |
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Wanderlei Silva | The Axe Murderer | 35–12–1 (1) | 0–0 |
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Jarod Trice[8] | Doughboy | 0–0 | 0–0 |
Middleweights (185 lb, 84 kg)
Name | Nickname | MMA record | Bellator record | |
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Alexander Shlemenko | Storm | 52–9 (1) | 11–3 (1) |
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Dan Cramer | Cosmo | 11–4 | 8–2 |
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Brandon Halsey | Bull | 9–1 | 7–1 |
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Kendall Grove | Da Spyder | 23–15 (1) | 4–2 |
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A.J. Matthews | 8–4 | 4–2 | |
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Doug Marshall | The Rhino | 18–8 | 4–2 |
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Mikkel Parlo | 13–2 | 4–2 | |
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Chris Honeycutt | 7–1 (1) | 3–1 (1) | |
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Joe Pacheco | The Juggernaut | 7–2 (1) | 2–2 (1) |
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Melvin Manhoef | No Mercy | 30–13–1 (2) | 2–2 (1) |
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Rafael Carvalho (C) | The Blessed | 13–1 | 4–0 |
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Bubba McDaniel | The Menace | 27–10 | 3–1 |
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Ben Reiter | The Hunter | 16–1–1 | 2–1 |
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Joe Schilling | Stitch 'em Up | 2–5 | 1–2 |
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Abdul Razak Alhassan | 4–0 | 2–0 | |
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Neiman Gracie | 4–0 | 2–0 | |
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Brandon Hester | 3–0 | 2–0 | |
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Francisco France | Kiko | 13–4–1 | 1–1 |
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Hisaki Kato | The Japanese Musketeer | 5–2 | 1–1 |
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Emiliano Sordi | He-Man | 13–5 | 1–1 |
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Gregory Babene | 17–11 (1) | 1–0 | |
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Neal Ewing | No Problem | 6–0 | 1–0 |
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Royce Gracie | 15–2–3 | 1–0 | |
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John Salter | 11–3 | 1–0 | |
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Benji Radach | Razor | 21–7 | 0–1 |
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Max Nunes[9] | Power | 16–3 | 0–0 |
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Ed Ruth | 0–0 | 0–0 | |
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Tim Caron | 4-0 | 1-0 |
Welterweights (170 lb, 77 kg)
Name | Nickname | MMA record | Bellator record | |
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Brennan Ward | The Irish Bad Boy | 13–4 | 8–4 |
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Andrey Koreshkov (C) | Spartan | 19–1 | 10–1 |
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Douglas Lima | The Phenom | 26–6 | 8–2 |
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Jesse Juarez | 22–11 | 6–2 | |
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Rudy Bears | Bad News | 16–14 | 2–6 |
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Marius Žaromskis | The Whitemare | 20–9 (1 NC) | 4–3 |
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Michael Page | Venom | 10–0 | 6–0 |
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Fernando Gonzalez | The Menifee Maniac | 25–13 | 5–0 |
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Paul Bradley | The Gentleman | 23–6 (2) | 3–1 (1) |
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Ricky Rainey | The Sniper | 11–4 | 3–2 |
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Paul Daley | Semtex | 38–13–1 | 4–0 |
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Adam McDonough | Big Gunna | 11–1 | 3–1 |
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Andre Santos | Chatuba | 38–10 | 2–1 |
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James Terry | Intensity | 16–8 | 1–2 |
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Curtis Millender | Curtious | 8–2 | 1–2 |
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Josh Neer | The Dentist | 36–15–1 | 0–3 |
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Matt Secor | 7–3 | 1–2 | |
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Andre Fialho | 6–0 | 1–0 | |
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Chidi Njokuani | Chidi Bang Bang | 14–4 | 1–0 |
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Jeremie Holloway | Hit 'Em | 7–2 | 0–2 |
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Clayton McFarlane | 4–1 | 0–1 | |
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Gilbert Smith[10] | Midnight Magic | 12–5 | 0–1 |
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Carlos Eduardo Rocha | Tá Danado | 9–4 | 0–1 |
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Evangelista Santos | Cyborg | 21–16 | 1–0 |
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Djamil Chan | Dynamite | 13–2 | 1–0 |
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Benson Henderson | Smooth | 23–6 | 0–1 |
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Thiago Goncalves | Jambo | 18–4 | 0–0 |
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Josh Koscheck | Kos | 17–10 | 0–0 |
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Guilherme Vasconcelos[11] | Bomba | 7–3 | 0–0 |
Lightweights (155 lb, 70 kg)
Name | Nickname | MMA record | Bellator record | |
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David Rickels | The Caveman | 17–4 (1) | 11–4 (1) |
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Patricky Freire | Pitbull | 16–7 | 9–6 |
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Michael Chandler | 14–3 | 11–3 | |
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Marcin Held | The Prodigy of Polish MMA | 21–4 | 10–3 |
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Saad Awad | Assassin | 18–7 | 6–4 |
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Derek Campos | The Stallion | 16–6 | 5–4 |
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Dave Jansen | The Fugitive | 20–3 | 7–1 |
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Ryan Quinn | 11–5 | 7–0 | |
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Brandon Girtz | Cold Roll | 14–4 | 6–2 |
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Derek Anderson | The Barbaric | 13–2 (1) | 4–2 |
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Brent Primus | 7–0 | 5–0 | |
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John Alessio | The Natural | 35–17 (2) | 1–1 (1) |
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Adam Piccolotti | 7–0 | 3–0 | |
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Bobby Cooper | SuperDuper | 12–7 | 2–1 |
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Ryan Couture | 10–4 | 2–1 | |
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Josh Thomson | The Punk | 22–8 (1) | 2–0 |
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Guillaume DiLorenzi | 10-2 | 1–1 | |
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Mike Bronzoulis | The Greek | 18–9–1 | 0–2 |
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Melvin Guillard | The Young Assassin | 32–16–2 (2) | 0–2 |
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Pablo Villaseca | 10–2 | 0–2 | |
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Chris Heatherly | The Slump | 9–3 (1) | 1–0 |
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Israel Giron | Featherweight | 18–4 | 1–0 |
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Paul Sass | Sassangle | 14–2 | 1–0 |
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Kevin Souza[12] | Kevin | 16–5 | 0–1 |
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Rob Sinclair | C4 | 13–3 | 0–1 |
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Carrington Banks | The Jetsetter | 4–0 | 0–0 |
Featherweights (145 lb, 65 kg)
Name | Nickname | MMA record | Bellator record | |
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Patricio Freire | Pitbull | 25–3 | 13–3 |
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Pat Curran | Paddy Mike | 22–7 | 12–4 |
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Daniel Straus (C) | 25–6 | 11–3 | |
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Bubba Jenkins | The Highlight Kid | 11–2 | 8–2 |
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Goiti Yamauchi | 19–3 | 5–2 | |
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Emmanuel Sanchez | El Matador | 13–2 | 5–1 |
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Daniel Weichel | The Weasel | 36–9 | 5–1 |
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Georgi Karakhanyan | Insane | 24–6–1 | 3–4 |
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A.J. McKee | 4–0 | 4–0 | |
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John Teixeira | Macapa | 20–1-2 | 3–0 |
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Henry Corrales | 12–3 | 0–3 | |
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Justin Lawrence | The American Kidd | 8–3 | 1–1 |
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Gaston Reyno | Tonga | 5–1 (2 NC) | 1–1 |
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Thomas Diagne | 5–5 | 0–1–1 | |
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Gleristone Santos | Toninho Furia | 27–6 | 0–2 |
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Daniele Scatizzi | Scat | 7–2 | 1–0 |
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Jonathan Bonilla-Bowman | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
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Daniele Miceli | The Cyborg | 2–1 | 0–1 |
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Isao Kobayashi | 18–3-4 | 0–1 | |
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Nam Phan | 21–14 | 0–1 | |
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Danilo Belluardo[13] | Caterpillar | 5–1 | 0–0 |
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Mark Dickson | Tricky | 10–2 | 0–0 |
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James Gallagher[14] | 3–0 | 0–0 | |
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Aaron Pico | 0–0 | 0–0 |
Bantamweights (135 lb, 61 kg)
Name | Nickname | MMA record | Bellator record | |
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Joe Warren | The Baddest Man on the Planet | 13–5 | 11–4 |
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Mike Richman | The Marine | 18–6 | 7–5 |
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Marcos Galvão (C) | Loro | 17–6–1 | 7–3 |
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Eduardo Dantas | Dudu | 17–4 | 7–1 |
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Darrion Caldwell | The Wolf | 9–0 | 6–0 |
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Joe Taimanglo | The Juggernaut | 22–6–1 | 5–2 |
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Steve Garcia | The Mean Machine | 6–1 | 4–1 |
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LC Davis | 23–7 | 3–1 | |
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Kin Moy | 8–2 | 2–1 | |
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Brandon Bender | 12–1 | 2–1 | |
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Sirwan Kakai | 12–4 | 0–1 | |
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Hideo Tokoro | 33–28–2 | 0–1 | |
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Darren Uyenoyama | BC | 10–5 | 0–0 |
Women's Featherweights (145 lb, 65 kg)
Name | Nickname | MMA record | Bellator record | |
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Arlene Blencowe[15] | Angerfist | 7–5 | 2–1 |
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Julia Budd | The Jewel | 7–2 | 2–0 |
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Marloes Coenen | Rumina | 23–6 | 2–0 |
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Adrienna Jenkins | AJ | 19–6 | 1–1 |
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Gabrielle Holloway | Gabanator | 4–3 | 0–2 |
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Annalisa Bucci[16] | No Fear | 7–4 | 0-1 |
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Holly Lawson | Lil' Bear | 0–1 | 0–1 |
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Iony Razafiarison | 2–1 | 0–1 | |
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Roberta Rovel | Crusher | 4–1 | 0–1 |
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Alexis Dufresne | Sneaky Zebra | 5–2 | 0–0 |
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Talita Nogueira | Treta | 6–0 | 0–0 |
Women's Flyweights (125 lb, 56 kg)
Name | Nickname | MMA record | Bellator record | |
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Ilima-Lei Macfarlane | The Ilimanator | 3–0 | 2–0 |
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Anastasia Yankova | 3–0 | 1–0 | |
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Rebecca Ruth | Becky | 6–1 | 1–0 |
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Lena Ovchynnikova | Hunter | 10–4 | 0–1 |
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Bruna Ellen | 2–0 | 0–0 | |
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Keri Melendez | 0–0 | 0–0 | |
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Kenya Miranda | Kill Bitch [17] | 2–2 | 0–0 |
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Bruna Vargas | 2–0 | 0–0 |
(C) | Indicates the current champion |
( ) | Any number within parenthesis in a fighter's record symbolizes a no contest |
- Unless otherwise cited, all records are retrieved from sherdog.com.
- Unless otherwise cited, all fighters listed are retrieved from Bellator.com.
See also
- List of Bellator champions
- List of Bellator events
- List of current UFC fighters
- List of current WSOF fighters
- List of current Invicta FC fighters
References
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- ↑ http://www.mma-core.com/fighters/Kenya_Miranda_da_Silva/216515