Bellator Fighting Championships founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney announced today that Roger Huerta will face rising star Pat Curran while "Submission of the Year" title holder Toby Imada will face Carey Vanier at Bellator’s May 6th event at the Wang Theatre in Boston.
Bellator Lightweight Semi-Final Pairings Announced
As much as I love the Bellator tournament format I am not a big fan of the brackets not being static. They have the first round matches, then after the fights happen they decide who should fight who. Rather than allowing for a natural seeding, organic sorting out of the tournament, this allows them to try to re-fit the tournament into getting a desired final.
It’s clear that the preferred final here would be Huerta/Imada. This would allow the winner of the tournament to either be Huerta, giving Bellator the very good title fight of Eddie Alvarez/Roger Huerta...or Imada, which would allow for a rematch of last year’s final against Alvarez.
The May 6 event will also feature Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez against UFC veteran Josh Neer.
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