A bantamweight-tournament semifinal fight between Ed West and Jose Vega is set for this month's Bellator 30 event, officials today announced.

Bellator 30 takes place Sept. 30 at Fourth Street Live! in Louisville,
Ky. West vs. Vega is part of the night's FOX Sports
Net-televised main card.

The two 135-pounders look to advance to the tourney's finale, which crowns the organization's first-ever bantamweight champion.

Thug-jitsu founder Yves Edwards looks ready to face John Gunderson at UFN: Marquardt vs. Palhares which is set to take place on September 15. Edwards will look for success against Gunderson and continue his current modest one fight win streak, with his last victory coming against Luis Palomino at Bellator 24.

As expected Brent Weedman and Jacob McClintock are slated to meet at Bellator 30, and the winner earns a berth into the organization's season-four welterweight tournament, officials recently announced.

MMAjunkie.com first reported the bout in August.

Bellator 30 takes place Sept. 30 at Fourth Street Live! in Louisville, Ky., and Weedman vs. McClintock is part of the night's FOX Sports Net-televised main card.

PRESS RELEASE / CHICAGO, Ill. (September 07, 2010) — Bellator Fighting Championships today announced a welterweight match-up between explosive finisher Brent Weedman and Season 2 Welterweight Tournament veteran Jacob “Tic-Toc” McClintock for a spot in the upcoming Bellator Season 4 Welterweight tournament. The fight is slated to take place during Bellator’s return to Louisville at Bellator 30 from “Fourth Street Live!” in Kentucky on September 23rd.

Weedman (16-5) has finished every one of his victories by KO or submission and enters the bout on an eight-fight win streak, but the Kentucky native isn’t worried about personal records. For Weedman, it’s all about winning the chance to compete in the Bellator Season 4 Welterweight tournament.

“I really try not to focus on any kind of streak I have going, good or bad,” said a modest Weedman. “Obviously it’s always nice to be on a run like this, but I try and focus on every individual fight as they come along, and right now that seems to be working for me. Win or lose, I try and learn from what I did wrong, so I can grow as a fighter.”

The view is a little different for McClintock (6-1), who is coming off his first professional defeat at the hands of hard hitting Ryan Thomas via first round TKO at Bellator 15.

“Coming off a loss, I am pretty excited to get back in there and redeem myself,” said an eager McClintock. “I’ve been training really hard for this fight. I’m working really hard on all aspects of my game – pushing my conditioning really hard.”

If McClintock wants to get back into the win column, he may have to do it quick, as Weedman doesn’t see the fight lasting very long.

“This isn’t me being cocky at all, but I don’t have many fights that go to the third round, so I see this one ending with me knocking him out early,” said Weedman. “I just don’t like to tip tap around, so if I see an opening, I’m going to take it.”

Whichever way it goes, fight fans are in for an explosive bout.

“We’re thrilled to have these two welterweights go head to head at a great venue like Fourth Street Live in Louisville ,” said Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney. “Adding this fight to an already loaded televised event is going to make for a great night of fights.”

Bryan Baker fell short of Bellator gold in the promotion's second
season, but he'll soon get a chance to put a nice win on his resume.

The promotion confirmed today that Baker will meet
former UFC contender and MMA marathon man Jeremy Horn at Bellator 30, according to a press release issued today.

Bellator 30 takes place Sept. 23 at Fourth Street Live! in Louisville, Ky.

Bryan Baker fell short of Bellator gold in the promotion's second
season, but he'll soon get a chance to put a nice win on his resume.

The promotion confirmed today that Baker will meet
former UFC contender and MMA marathon man Jeremy Horn at Bellator 30, according to a press release issued today.

Bellator 30 takes place Sept. 23 at Fourth Street Live! in Louisville, Ky.

A heavyweight-tournament semifinal fight between Neil Grove and Alexey Oleinik is official for next week's Bellator 29 event, officials today announced.

The event, which is the first major show regulated in the state of Wisconsin, takes place Sept. 16 at the Raves/Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee.

Grove vs. Oleinik is part of the night's FOX Sports Net-televised main card.

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For the opening five minutes of Thursday's Bellator 27 main event, the
self-described "baddest man on the planet" looked like anything but.

Then came round two.

After getting tagged throughout the first round with lead left hands and
nasty right uppercuts, Joe Warren uncorked a
powerful barrage of strikes that left former champion Joe Soto unconscious on the floor.

Recent WEC fighter Anthony Leone (8-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) has replaced injured Alvin Robinson and now meets fellow featherweight Georgi Karakhanyan at next week's Bellator 28 event.

Karakhanyan confirmed Robinson's injury via Twitter, and a source close to the event told MMAjunkie.com Leone has been tapped as a replacement.

Bellator 28 takes place Sept. 9 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in New Orleans.