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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] Unlike those organizations fighters participate 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 are 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 (NC).^[2] All fight records in this article are displayed in that order, with fights resulting in a no-contest listed in parentheses.

Heavyweights (265 lb, 120 kg): 18 fighters

Bellator Heavyweight Alexander Volkov

Alexander Volkov

	Name	Nickname	MMA record	Bellator record
!a	!a	!a	-9999
United States of America	Rich Hale	Rare Breed	21–5–1	6–2
United States of America	Travis Wiuff	Diesel	68–17 (1 NC)	4–2
United States of America	Eric Prindle	The American Soldier	7–3 (1 NC)	3–2 (1 NC)
Brazil	Thiago Santos	Big Monster	11–2 (1 NC)	3–1 (1 NC)
United States of America	Mark Holata	z	12–4	3–2
United States of America	Ron Sparks	The Monster	8–1	3–1
Russia	Alexander Volkov (C)	Drago	19–3	3–0
United States of America	Ryan Martinez		9–2	2–1
Bulgaria	Blagoi Ivanov	Bagata	7–0 (1 NC)	2–0
Brazil	Vinicius Queiroz	Spartan	6–3	1–1
United States of America	Brett Rogers	The Grim	12–5 (1 NC)	1–1
United States of America	Zak Jensen		10–10	0–2
United States of America	Manny Lara	Bam Bam	4–3	0–2
Russia	Vitaly Minakov		10–0	1–0
Belarus	Alexei Kudin		14–5	0–1
England	Mark Godbeer	The Hand Of	8–1	0–0
Russia	Ruslan Magomedov		10–1	0–0
South Korea	Hae Joon Yang	Hungry	7–4	0–0

Light Heavyweights (205 lb, 93 kg): 17 fighters

Muhammed Lawal

Renato Sobral

	Name	Nickname	MMA record	Bellator record
!a	!a	!a	-9999
United States of America	Tim Carpenter	z	9–2	4–2
Slovakia	Attila Vegh (C)	Pumukli	29–4–2	5–0
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Christian M'Pumbu	Tonton	18–5–1	3–2
United States of America	Raphael Davis	Noodle	12–2	3–1
United States of America	Emanuel Newton	The Hardcore Kid	20–7–1	3–1
United States of America	Matt Van Buren	z	5–2	2–2
United States of America	Mike Mucitelli	Crazy	5–0	3–0
United States of America	Jacob Noe	The Psycho	11–2 (1 NC)	2–1
Russia	Mikhail Zayats		21–6	2–0
United States of America	Muhammed Lawal	King Mo	9–2 (1 NC)	1–1
United States of America	Seth Petruzelli	The Silverback	14–7	1–1
Croatia	Zelg Galesic	Benkei	11–7	0–2
Bulgaria	Atanas Djambazov	z	17–3	0–1
Poland	Przemysław Mysiała	Misiek	16–8	0–1
Brazil	Renato Sobral	Babalu	37–10	0–1
Brazil	Carlos Eduardo	Cachorrao	9–2	0–0
Brazil	Phelipe Lins	z	5–0	0–0

Middleweights (185 lb, 84 kg): 21 fighters

Alexander Shlemenko

	Name	Nickname	MMA record	Bellator record
!a	!a	!a	-9999
Russia	Alexander Shlemenko (C)	Storm	47–7	8–1
United States of America	Dan Cramer	Cosmo	10–4	7–2
United States of America	Brett Cooper	Fudoshin	19–7	6–2
United States of America	Brian Rogers	The Professional Predator	10–5	3–3
United States of America	Duane Bastress	z	6–2	3–1
Brazil	Maiquel Falcao	Big Rig	31–5 (1 NC)	3–1
Brazil	Vitor Vianna	z	12–3–1	2–2
United States of America	Jason Butcher	z	6–0	3–0
United States of America	Doug Marshall	The Rhino	17–6	3–0
Brazil	Giva Santana	The Arm Collector	18–2	2–1
Germany	Jonas Billstein		10–3	1–2
Sweden	Andreas Spang	Sweet Swede	8–3	1–2
France	Norman Paraisy	z	10–3–1 (1 NC)	0–3
United States of America	Trey Houston	That Just Happened	10–1	1–1
Denmark	Mikkel Parlo	z	9–1	1–1
Russia	Vyacheslav Vasilevsky	Crushin' Russian	18–2	1–1
Norway	Jack Hermansson	z	5–2	0–2
United States of America	Perry Filkins	Filthy	7–1	1–0
Brazil	Bruno Santos	Carioca	13–0	1–0
United States of America	Jeremiah Graziano^[3]	Wyson	0–0	0–0
Canada	Cory MacDonald		12–2	0–0

Welterweights (170 lb, 77 kg): 28 fighters

Marius Žaromskis

Marcus Davis

Bellator Welterweight Karo Parisyan

Karo Parisyan

	Name	Nickname	MMA record	Bellator record
!a	!a	!a	-9999
United States of America	Bryan Baker	The Beast	18–5	8–4
United States of America	Lyman Good	Cyborg	14–3	7–3
United States of America	Ben Saunders	Killa B	16–5–2	7–2
United States of America	Ben Askren (C)	Funky	11–0	8–0
Brazil	Douglas Lima	The Phenom	24–5	6–1
Brazil	Cosmo Alexandre	Good Boy	5–1	5–1
France	Karl Amoussou	Psycho	16–5–2	4–2
Russia	Andrey Koreshkov	Spartan	13–0	5–0
Lithuania	Marius Zaromskis	The Whitemare	19–8 (1 NC)	3–2
United States of America	Chris Lozano	The Cleveland Assassin	10–3	2–3
United States of America	Waachiim Spiritwolf	z	9–11–1 (2 NC)	1–2 (1 NC)
United States of America	A.J. Matthews	z	6–2	2–1
Canada	Nordine Taleb	z	8–2	2–1
United States of America	Joe Williams	Mongo	8–1	2–1
United States of America	Jordan Smith	Mata Ele	17–5–1	0–3
Canada	Ryan Ford	The Real Deal	19–4	2–0
United States of America	Cristiano Souza	Soldier	6–0	2–0
England	Paul Daley	Semtex	30–12–2	1–0
England	Michael Page^[4]	Venom	4–0	1–0
United States of America	Marcus Davis	The Irish Hand Grenade	21–9 (1 NC)	0–0 (1 NC)
Brazil	Marcus Aurelio	Lelo	6–2	0–1
United States of America	Tim Welch	Cheapshot	9–4	0–1
United States of America	War Machine	War Machine	12–4	0–0
United States of America	Adam McDonough	z	8–0	0–0
Brazil	Luis Melo	Sergio Junior	28–11–3	0–0
Armenia	Karo Parisyan	The Heat	22–9 (1 NC)	0–0
United States of America	Dante Rivera	z	15–6	0–0
United States of America	Cole Williams	z	6–1	0–0

Lightweights (155 lb, 70 kg): 28 fighters

Eddie Alvarez

Rob McCullough

	Name	Nickname	MMA record	Bellator record
!a	!a	!a	-9999
United States of America	Brent Weedman	z	21–8–1	7–3
United States of America	Eddie Alvarez	The Silent Assassin	24–3	8–1
United States of America	Michael Chandler (C)	z	11–0	8–0
United States of America	David Rickels	The Caveman	11–1	7–1
United States of America	Rick Hawn	Genghis	14–2	6–2
United States of America	Dave Jansen	The Fugitive	19–2	6–0
Poland	Marcin Held	The Prodigy of Polish MMA	15–3	4–2
Brazil	Patricky Freire	Pitbull	10–4	3–3
Brazil	Renê Nazare	The Brazilian Bomber	10–3	3–3
United States of America	Emanuel Brooks	Pretty Boy	7–1	4–1
United States of America	Jason Fischer	The Finisher	6–2	3–2
Brazil	Ricardo Tirloni	z	15–4	2–3
United States of America	Lloyd Woodard	Cupcake	12–2	2–3
United States of America	Saad Awad	z	14–4	2–1
Russia	Alexander Sarnavskiy	Tiger	22–1	2–1
Brazil	Thiago Michel	z	11–4	1–2
United States of America	Darrell Horcher	The Saint	7–0	2–0
United States of America	J.J. Ambrose	Superman	19–5 (1 NC)	1–1
United States of America	Will Brooks	Ill Will	9–1	1–1
Canada	Guillaume DeLorenzi	Il Toro	10–2	1–1
Russia	Murad Machaev	Strangler	11–1	1–1
South Africa	Lorawnt-T Nelson	Smash	6–2	0–2
United States of America	Brandon Girtz	z	8–2	1–0
United States of America	Mike Guymon	The Joker	14–6–1	0–1
United States of America	Rob McCullough	Razor	19–8	0–1
Brazil	Bruno Carvalho	z	8–2	0–0
United States of America	Patrick Cenoble	Lights Out	9–2	0–0
Russia	Shamil Zavurov	Champion	20–2–1	0–0

Featherweights (145 lb, 65 kg): 17 fighters

Wagnney Fabiano

	Name	Nickname	MMA record	Bellator record
!a	!a	!a	-9999
Brazil	Marlon Sandro	The Gladiator	24–5	7–3
United States of America	Pat Curran (C)	Paddy Mike	18–4	8–1
Brazil	Alexandre Bezerra	Popo	15–3	7–2
United States of America	Daniel Straus	z	21–4	7–1
Brazil	Patricio Freire	Pitbull	17–2	5–2
United States of America	Brylan Van Artsdalen		7–5	1–5
United States of America	Rad Martinez	z	14–3	4–1
United States of America	Mike Richman	The Marine	15–2	4–1
United States of America	Joe Soto	The Hammer	11–2	4–1
Russia	Magomedrasul Khasbulaev	Frodo	20–5	4–0
United States of America	Shanon Slack	The Heartbreak Kid	6–1	3–1
Brazil	Genair da Silva	Junior PQD	13–5	2–2
Argentina	Nazareno Malegarie	Naza	24–3	1–3
Russia	Shahbulat Shamhalaev	Sha	12–1–1	3–0
Russia	Akop Stepanyan	z	13–5	1–2
Brazil	Wagnney Fabiano	The Silencer	15–4	1–1
Brazil	Fabricio Guerreiro	Guerreiro	17–2	0–1

Bantamweights (135 lb, 61 kg): 14 fighters

	Name	Nickname	MMA record	Bellator record
!a	!a	!a	-9999
United States of America	Joe Warren		8–3	6–2
Brazil	Marcos Galvão	Loro	13–6–1	4–3
United States of America	Ed West	Wild	18–7	4–3
Brazil	Luis Nogueira	Betao	14–3	4–2
Brazil	Eduardo Dantas (C)	Dudu	15–3	5–0
Thailand	Ronnie Mann	Iron	21–5–1	3–2
United States of America	Jimmie Rivera	El Terror	11–1	3–0
United States of America	Travis Marx	T-Train	20–4 (1 NC)	2–1
Japan	Hiroshi Nakamura	Iron	15–6–4	1–1
United States of America	Nick Kirk	The Big Hurt	9–2	0–2
United States of America	Shawn Bunch	Bunch The Great	1–0	1–0
Brazil	Rodrigo Lima	Ratinho	10–1	0–1
Lithuania	Sergej Grecicho		13–5–1	0–0
Brazil	Rafael Silva	Morcego	19–3	0–0

Women (115 lb, 52 kg): 7 fighters

Megumi Fujii

	Name	Nickname	MMA record	Bellator record
!a	!a	!a	-9999
Mexico	Jessica Aguilar	Jag	14–4	4–1
Japan	Megumi Fujii	Mega Megu	26–2	3–2
United States of America	Jessica Eye	Evil	9–1	3–0
United States of America	Felice Herrig	Lil' Bulldog	8–4	2–0
United States of America	Munah Holland	The Perfect Storm	5–2	1–1
English	Rosi Sexton	The Surgeon	13–2	1–1
United States of America	Elena Reid	Babydoll	4–1	0–0

Bellator Fighting Championship title holders are marked with a (C).
Unless otherwise cited, all records are retrieved from sherdog.com.
Unless otherwise cited, all fighters listed are retrieved from Bellator.com.

References

^ Press Release (November 19, 2008). "Bellator Fighting Championships Signs Exclusive TV Agreement with ESPN". Sportsblogs, Inc.
^ Grant Waterman (October 2003). "MMA Scoring Guide". SFUK.
^ http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=475062&cat=boxer
^ "Bellator FC sign the UK's "Anderson Silva" Michael Page to Multi-Fight Deal". addictedmma.com. August 23, 2012.

External links

Bellator

[1] Press Release (November 19, 2008). "Bellator Fighting Championships Signs Exclusive TV Agreement with ESPN". Sportsblogs, Inc.

[2] Grant Waterman (October 2003). "MMA Scoring Guide". SFUK.

[3] ttp://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=475062&cat=boxer

[4] "Bellator FC sign the UK's "Anderson Silva" Michael Page to Multi-Fight Deal". addictedmma.com. August 23, 2012.

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