April 29 there are going to be nationally televised fights in the Power & Light District.
The first of four live Bellator Fighting Championships events in the Kansas City Live Block, where a circular cage will house the carnage, which will be broadcast on Fox Sports.
Bellator founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney tells The Pitch that
the Kansas City fights will either be the first four matches of
the welterweight (170 pounds) or middleweight (185 pounds) tournaments. Each tourney is win-or-go-home style with the survivor getting a shot at a championship.
Announcements on
ticket sales as well as the city-wide tryout for a chance to compete in
the tourneys, says Power & Light District spokesman Nick Benjamin.
The tryouts will be for experienced and licensed MMA fighters, Rebney
says. "We will choose one fighter who earn right to fight on that show."
The first Bellator event of this season is scheduled for April 8 at
the
Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. Bellator has three events
scheduled for the Power & Light District in 2010. They are ...
June 24 -- Bellator XXIV -- Rebney says it'll be the "close out date"
for season one with two championship fights.
Bellator XXVII -- Rebney says it could be the the first round of either
the women's championship or light heavyweight championship tournaments.
14 -- Bellator XXXIV -- Rebney says to expect a world title bout from
one of Bellator's four championship divisions.
features Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez,
Featherweight Champion Joe
Soto, top Brazilian prospect Patricio
Pitbull and Olympian and former NCAA
Champion Ben
Askren.
Rebney tells The Pitch that he'd like to see Askren fight in KC.
The fights will be rebroadcast in an hour-long
show on Telemundo and a
30-minute highlight show broadcast on Saturday nights on
NBC, which will give the P&L District huge national exposure.
The
first four events in the Power & Light District may not be the
last.
"I'd love to be coming back year after year after year," Rebeny
says.
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