Tonight Bellator brings us the quarterfinal fights in the season 5 bantamweight tournament. The eventual winner of the tournament will win $100,000 and a shot at taking champ Zak Makovsky's belt from him.
An interesting twist for this tourney is that featherweight champ Joe Warren is participating, in a determined attempt to hold two belts in the promotion. He has a potentially tough first fight tonight, though, going up against Alexis Vila. Vila is an Olympic wrestler with an MMA record of 9-0 and should give Warren a real run for his money.
For the rest of the card, we have several veterans of this tourney back again for another try. We'll see Wilson Reis vs. Eduardo Dantas, Marcos Galvao vs. Chase Beebe, and Luis Alberto Nogueira vs. Ed West.
Bloody Elbow's own Dallas Winston has a good in-depth look at the card here. I highly recommend checking it out.
SBN coverage of Bellator 51