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Bellator Fighting Championships: Season Seven was the seventh installment of the Bellator Fighting Championships, which began on September 28, 2012.

Mixed martial arts tournaments were held in several weight classes, including the featherweight, lightweight, welterweight and heavyweight divisions.

Events

Bellator LXXIV

Bellator LXXIV took place on September 28, 2012 at Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2. It was the season debut of season seven.

Background

Bellator 74 hosted the opening round in the Bellator Season Seven Welterweight Tournament.

Alexandre Bezerra was originally scheduled to face The Ultimate Fighter: Live alumni Jeff Smith. However, Smith failed his pre-fight medical and was replaced by Matt McCook in a 157lb catchweight fight. Plinio Cruz and Kelvin Tiller were also originally announced to meet in a middleweight fight, but the bout was cancelled after Cruz sustained an injury in training.

Results

Card	Weight Class				Round	Time	Method	Notes
Main	Welterweight	Lyman Good	def.	Jim Wallhead	3	5:00	Unanimous Decision (29–27, 29–27, 29–27)	Welterweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Welterweight	Marius Žaromskis	def.	Nordine Taleb	3	5:00	Unanimous Decision (30–27, 29–27, 29–27)	Welterweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Welterweight	Michail Tsarev	def.	Tim Welch	2	1:57	Submission (rear-naked choke)	Welterweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Welterweight	Andrey Koreshkov	def.	Jordan Smith	3	5:00	Unanimous Decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)	Welterweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Preliminary	Featherweight	Will Martinez	def.	Casey Johnson	1	2:27	Submission (rear-naked choke)
Preliminary	Women's Flyweight	Michelle Ould	def.	Munah Holland	3	5:00	Unanimous Decision (30–27, 30–27, 29–28)
Preliminary	Catchweight (157lb)	Alexandre Bezerra	def.	Matt McCook	1	3:04	Submission (rear-naked choke)
Preliminary	Lightweight	Phillipe Nover	def.	Derrick Kennington	2	4:20	Technical submission (rear-naked choke)
Preliminary	Featherweight	Brylan Van Artsdalen	def.	Jay Haas	1	1:03	Submission (guillotine choke)
Preliminary	Bantamweight	Claudio Ledesma	def.	Kenny Foster	3	5:00	Unanimous Decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)

Bellator LXXV

Bellator LXXV took place on October 5, 2012 at The Venue in the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.

Background

Bellator LXXV hosted the opening round in the Bellator Season Seven Heavyweight Tournament.

The event featured the long-planned rematch between season-five heavyweight tournament finalists Eric Prindle and Thiago Santos. Prindle and Santos met in the finals of Bellator's season-five heavyweight tourney, but the bout was ruled a no-contest when Santos inexplicably kicked a downed Prindle in the groin. The initial rematch was scheduled for Bellator 61. However, on March 15, Bellator announced the fight had been pushed back a week to Bellator 62 due to Prindle having "flu-like symptoms." The following week Santos failed to make weight and the bout was cancelled, and Prindle was awarded the tournament win by default. Incredibly, the fourth scheduled meeting of these two fighters again ended in controversy as this time Prindle accidentally kicked Santos in the groin in round one.

Results

Card	Weight Class				Round	Time	Method	Notes
Main	Heavyweight	Thiago Santos	def.	Eric Prindle	1	4:51	DQ (groin strike)	Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Heavyweight	Alexander Volkov	def.	Brett Rogers	3	5:00	Unanimous Decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)	Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Heavyweight	Richard Hale	def.	Mike Wessel	1	1:19	TKO (punches)	Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Heavyweight	Vinicius Queiroz	def.	Mark Holata	1	3:26	Submission (armbar)	Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Preliminary	Bantamweight	Chase Beebe	def.	Bo Harris	3	5:00	Unanimous Decision
Preliminary	Heavyweight	Ryan Martinez	def.	Manny Lara	3	5:00	Majority Decision
Preliminary	Welterweight	Joe Williams	def.	Rod Montoya	1	3:17	Submission (rear naked choke)
Preliminary	Catchweight (178lb)	Jason Graves	def.	Rafał Skibiński	1	2:50	Submission (rear naked choke)
Preliminary	Catchweight (210lb)	Anthony Gomez	def.	Jose Medina	1	2:32	Submission (rear naked choke)
Preliminary	Catchweight (148lb)	Cliff Wright, Jr.	def.	Bobby Reardanz	1	3:39	Submission (rear naked choke)

Bellator LXXVI

Bellator LXXVI took place on October 12, 2012 at Caesars Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.

Background

Bellator 76 hosted the opening round in the Bellator Season Seven Featherweight Tournament.

Fight card

Card	Weight Class				Round	Time	Method	Notes
Main	Lightweight	Eddie Alvarez	def.	Patricky Freire	1	4:54	KO (head kick and punches)
Main	Featherweight	Rad Martinez	def.	Nazareno Malegarie	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)	Featherweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Featherweight	Wagnney Fabiano	def.	Akop Stepanyan	1	3:24	Submission (armbar)	Featherweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Featherweight	Mike Richman	def.	Jeremy Spoon	1	0:23	KO (head kick and punches)	Featherweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Featherweight	Shahbulat Shamhalaev	def.	Cody Bollinger	1	4:49	TKO (punches)	Featherweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Preliminary	Featherweight	Magomedrasul Khasbulaev	def.	Nayeb Hezam	1	0:24	TKO (punches)	Featherweight Tournament Reserve Bout
Preliminary	Featherweight	Jason Fischer	def.	Kyle Prepolec	3	3:19	Submission (arm-triangle choke)
Preliminary	Lightweight	Chad Laprise	def.	Ainsley Robinson	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
Preliminary	Middleweight	Ali Mokdad	def.	Simon Marini	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)
Preliminary	Welterweight	Dom O'Grady	def.	A.J. Matthews	3	5:00	Decision (majority) (29–28, 28–29, 29–29)

Bellator LXXVII

Bellator LXXVII took place on October 19, 2012 at the Reading Eagle Theater in the Sovereign Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.

Background

Bellator 77 hosted the opening round in the Bellator Season Seven Lightweight Tournament.

Results

Card	Weight Class				Round	Time	Method	Notes
Main	Lightweight	Rich Clementi	def.	Alexander Sarnavskiy	3	5:00	Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)	Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Lightweight	Dave Jansen	def.	Magomed Saadulaev	3	0:41	Submission (guillotine choke)	Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Lightweight	Marcin Held	def.	Murad Machaev	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)	Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Main	Lightweight	Ricardo Tirloni	def.	Rene Nazare	2	1:14	Submission (D'arce choke)	Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinal
Preliminary	Flyweight	Matthew Lozano	def	Dave Morgan	2	2:28	Submission (inverted triangle choke)
Preliminary	Catchweight (240)	Lew Polley	def.	Carmelo Marrero	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 29–28)
Preliminary	Lightweight	Darrel Horcher	def.	E.J. Brooks	1	0:21	KO (punch)	Lightweight Tournament Reserve Bout
Preliminary	Catchweight (157)	Cosmo Alexandre	def.	Mike Bannon	2	5:00	TKO (doctor stoppage)
Preliminary	Middleweight	Duane Bastress	def.	Ariel Sepulveda	3	5:00	Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)
Preliminary	Featherweight	Brett Martinez	def.	Eric Albright	2	3:28	Submission (guillotine choke)

Bellator LXXVIII

Bellator LXXVIII took place on October 26, 2012 at the Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.

Background

Bellator 78 hosted the semi-finals of Bellator's Season Seven Welterweight Tournament.

Results

Card	Weight Class				Round	Time	Method	Notes
Main	Welterweight	Lyman Good	def.	Michail Tsarev	2	3:54	TKO (punches)	Welterweight Tournament Semifinal
Main	Welterweight	Andrey Koreshkov	def.	Marius Zaromskis	1	2:14	TKO (punches)	Welterweight Tournament Semifinal
Main	Featherweight	Daniel Straus	def.	Alvin Robinson	2	4:51	Submission (rear-naked choke)
Main	Middleweight	Brian Rogers	def.	Dominique Steele	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
Preliminary	Women's Flyweight	Zoila Gurgel	def.	Casey Noland	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)	Non-title bout
Preliminary	Lightweight	Rob Hanna	def.	Rocky Edwards	3	5:00	Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)
Preliminary	Catchweight (140 lbs)	Justin McNally	def.	Jake Nauracy	1	0:38	Technical Submission (triangle choke)
Preliminary	Middleweight	Mikkel Parlo	def.	Jared Combs	1	3:51	KO (punches)
Preliminary	Middleweight	Billy Horne	def.	Trey Houston	1	3:30	Submission (rear naked choke)
Preliminary	Middleweight	Jason Butcher	def.	Shaun Asher	1	1:32	Submission (guillotine choke)

Bellator LXXIX

Bellator LXXIX took place on November 2, 2012 at Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.

Background

Bellator 79 hosted the one half of the semi-finals of Bellator's Season Seven Heavyweight Tournament and Featherweight Tournament.

Paul Daley was originally scheduled for this event, but was taken off the card due to concerns that he would be stopped at the Canadian border due to incomplete paperwork needed to secure a visa.

Results

Card	Weight Class				Round	Time	Method	Notes
Main	Heavyweight	Richard Hale	def.	Thiago Santos	1	3:31	TKO (punches)	Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal
Main	Featherweight	Shahbulat Shamhalaev	def.	Mike Richman	1	1:45	TKO (punches)	Featherweight Tournament Semifinal
Main	Catchweight (180 lbs)	Douglas Lima	def.	Jacob Ortiz	3	4:50	TKO (head kick and knee)
Main	Welterweight	Ryan Ford	def.	Kyle Baker	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 30–27)
Preliminary	Heavyweight	Josh Appelt	def.	Ed Carpenter	1	N/A	Submission (rear naked choke)
Preliminary	Catchweight (173 lbs)	Christ Franck	def.	Marcus Aurélio	3	5:00	Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)
Preliminary	Heavyweight	Vitaly Minakov	def.	Vladimir Starcencov	2	0:27	TKO (punches)
Preliminary	Lightweight	Magomedrasul Khasbulaev	def.	Josh Pulsifer	1	3:30	Submission (rear naked choke)
Preliminary	Lightweight	Guillaume DeLorenzi	def.	Jonny Carson	1	4:49	Submission (rear naked choke)

Bellator LXXX

Bellator LXXX took place on November 9, 2012 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.

Background

Bellator 80 hosted the second half of the semi-finals of Bellator's Season Seven Heavyweight Tournament and Featherweight Tournament.

The featherweight bout between Sky Moiseichik and Shanon Slack was changed to a 150-lbs catchweight bout after both fighters failed to make weight.

Results

Card	Weight Class				Round	Time	Method	Notes
Main	Bantamweight	Joe Warren	def.	Owen Evinger	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
Main	Featherweight	Rad Martinez	def.	Wagnney Fabiano	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 30–27)	Featherweight Tournament Semifinal
Main	Heavyweight	Alexander Volkov	def.	Vinicius Queiroz	2	4:59	TKO (punches)	Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal
Main	Middleweight	Brett Cooper	def.	Darryl Cobb	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
Preliminary	Lightweight	Brandon Girtz	def.	Mike Quinones	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)
Preliminary	Welterweight	Cristiano Souza	def.	Robert Otani	1	2:46	KO (punches)
Preliminary	Lightweight	Cosmo Alexandre	def.	Josh Quayhagen	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
Preliminary	Catchweight (150 lbs)	Shanon Slack	def.	Sky Moiseichik	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
Preliminary	Middleweight	Joe Vedepo	def.	Mike Bernhard	1	3:26	Submission (vedepo choke)
Preliminary	Welterweight	Ryan DeRocher	def.	Taylor Krahl	1	0:20	KO (punches)

Bellator LXXXI

Bellator LXXXI took place on November 16, 2012 at the Ryan Center in Kingston, Rhode Island. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.

Background

Bellator 81 hosted the semi-finals of Bellator's Season Seven Lightweight Tournament.

Results

Card	Weight Class				Round	Time	Method	Notes
Main	Lightweight	Marcin Held	def.	Rich Clementi	2	3:04	Submission (toe hold)	Lightweight Tournament Semifinal
Main	Lightweight	Dave Jansen	def.	Ricardo Tirloni	3	5:00	Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)	Lightweight Tournament Semifinal
Main	Featherweight	Marlon Sandro	def.	Dustin Neace	1	2:05	Technical Submission (rear naked choke)
Main	Middleweight	Perry Filkins	def.	Jonas Billstein	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28)
Preliminary	Bantamweight	Ruben Rey	def.	Robbie LeRoux	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28)
Preliminary	Lightweight	Matt Bessette	def.	Paul Barrow	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 30–27)
Preliminary	Middleweight	Brennan Ward	def.	Sam McCoy	1	2:49	KO (punches)
Preliminary	Catchweight (210 lbs)	Mike Mucitelli	def.	Matt Uhde	1	0:26	Submission (armbar)
Preliminary	Middleweight	Dan Cramer	def.	Joe Lamoureux	1	3:26	KO (punches)
Preliminary	Lightweight	Andrew Calandrelli	def.	Eric Brown	2	3:10	Submission (armbar)
Preliminary	Catchweight (165 lbs)	Murad Machaev	def.	Lorawnt-T Nelson	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)

Bellator LXXXII

Bellator LXXXII took place on November 30, 2012 at the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.

Background

Bellator 82 hosted the final of Bellator's Season Seven Welterweight Tournament.

British fighter Michael Page was expected to make his Bellator debut at this event, but was pulled for undisclosed reasons.

Results

Card	Weight Class				Round	Time	Method	Notes
Main	Welterweight	Andrey Koreshkov	def.	Lyman Good	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)	Welterweight Tournament Final
Main	Catchweight	David Rickels	def.	Jason Fischer	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28)	160 lbs. catchweight
Main	Middleweight	Doug Marshall	def.	Kala Hose	1	0:22	KO (punch)
Main	Lightweight	Alexander Sarnavskiy	def.	Tony Hervey	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
Preliminary	Catchweight (162 lbs)	John Schulz	def.	Hector Garcia	3	2:45	TKO (punches)
Preliminary	Welterweight	Mario Navarro	def.	Anthony Bain	2	3:18	Submission (triangle choke)
Preliminary	Bantamweight	Shawn Bunch	def.	Chad Coon	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
Preliminary	Middleweight	Giva Santana	def.	Brendan Sequin	2	2:33	Submission (knee bar)
Preliminary	Light Heavyweight	Terry Davinney	def.	Matt Van Buren	1	0:15	KO (punch)
Preliminary	Featherweight	Jeremy Czarnecki	def.	Justin Houghton	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)

Bellator LXXXIII

Bellator LXXXIII took place on December 7, 2012 at the Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.

Background

Bellator 83 was expected to host the final of Bellator's Season Seven Featherweight Tournament between finalists Shahbulat Shamhalaev and Rad Martinez. However, the night of the show it was announced on the air that the bout was cancelled due to Shamhalaev having food poisoning. The fight was initially moved to the following week's show, but then later postponed to season eight.

Results

Card	Weight Class				Round	Time	Method	Notes
Main	Bantamweight	Anthony Leone	def.	Zach Makovsky	3	5:00	Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)
Main	Women's Flyweight	Jessica Eye	def.	Zoila Gurgel	1	0:58	Technical Submission (arm-triangle choke)
Main	Lightweight	Darrell Horcher	def.	Chris Liguori	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)
Preliminary	Heavyweight	Mike Wessel	def.	Alexei Kudin	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)
Preliminary	Bantamweight	Jimmie Rivera	def.	Jesse Brock	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 30–27)
Preliminary	Featherweight	Terrell Hobbs	def.	Brylan Van Artsdalen	1	3:07	Submission (rear-naked choke)
Preliminary	Catchweight (129 lbs)	Tuan Pham	def.	Matthew Lozano	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)
Preliminary	Bantamweight	Claudio Ledesma	def.	David Harris	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)

Bellator LXXXIV

Bellator LXXXIV took place on December 14, 2012 at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.

Background

Bellator 84 hosted the final of Bellator's Season Seven Heavyweight and Lightweight Tournaments.

Christian M'Pumbu was expected to make his first defense of his light heavyweight title against 2012 Summer Series tournament winner Attila Vegh. However, on December 3, 2012, it was announced that Vegh had been pulled from the card due to injury and the match postponed for a later date.

Marcin Held and Dave Jansen were scheduled to compete in the Lightweight Tournament Final on this card. However, the match was cancelled because the Indiana Gaming Commission barred the 20-year-old Held from competing as one must be 21 to enter a casino.

The fight between Richard Hale and Alexander Volkov was the Heavyweight Tournament Final as well as for the vacated Heavyweight Title.

Results

Card	Weight Class				Round	Time	Method	Notes
Main	Heavyweight	Alexander Volkov	def.	Richard Hale	5	5:00	Decision (unanimous)	Heavyweight Tournament Final; For Vacant Heavyweight Title
Main	Middleweight	Daniel Vizcaya	def.	Jack Hermansson	3	5:00	Decision (split)
Main	Women's Strawweight	Felice Herrig	def.	Patricia Vidonic	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous)
Main	Middleweight	Louis Taylor	def.	Joe Vedepo	1	4:12	KO (punch)
Preliminary	Lightweight	Christian Uflacker	def.	Cliff Wright	3	2:26	Technical Decision (unanimous)
Preliminary	Catchweight (215 lbs)	Anthony Gomez	def.	Anton Talamantes	1	3:30	Submission (rear naked choke)
Preliminary	Flyweight	Jerald Williams	vs	Joey Diehl	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous)
Preliminary	Featherweight	Robert White	def.	Kenny Booker	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous)
Preliminary	Welterweight	Belal Muhammed	def.	Quinton McCottrell	3	5:00	Decision (unanimous)
Preliminary	Heavyweight	Dave Sharp	def.	Eddie Castillo	2	2:35	TKO (punches)

Tournaments

Featherweight tournament bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Shahbulat Shamhalaev

TKO

Cody Bollinger

1

Shahbulat Shamhalaev

KO

Mike Richman

1

Jeremy Spoon

TKO

Mike Richman

1

Shahbulat Shamhalaev

Rad Martinez

Wagnney Fabiano

SUB

Akop Stepanyan

1

Wagnney Fabiano

DEC

Rad Martinez

3

Nazareno Malegarie

DEC

Rad Martinez

3

Lightweight tournament bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Rich Clementi

DEC

Alexander Sarnavskiy

3

Rich Clementi

2

Marcin Held

SUB

Marcin Held

DEC

Murad Machaev

3

Marcin Held

Dave Jansen

Dave Jansen

SUB

Magomed Saadulaev

3

Dave Jansen

DEC

Ricardo Tirloni

3

Rene Nazare

SUB

Ricardo Tirloni

2

Welterweight tournament bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Lyman Good

DEC

Jim Wallhead

3

Lyman Good

TKO

Michail Tsarev

2

Michail Tsarev

SUB

Tim Welch

2

Lyman Good

DEC

Andrey Koreshkov

3

Andrey Koreshkov

DEC

Jordan Smith

3

Andrey Koreshkov

KO

Marius Žaromskis

1

Marius Žaromskis

DEC

Nordine Taleb

3