Official fighter weigh-ins for Bellator 30 take place today at Fourth Street Live! in Louisville, Ky.
You can watch a live video stream of the proceedings beginning at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT).
Among the 18 fighters weighing are middleweights Bryan Baker and Jeremy
Horn. So, too, are the competitors from the night's two
bantamweight-tournament semifinal fights: Ed West vs. Jose Vega and
Bryan Goldsby vs. Zack Makovsky.
Official fighter weigh-ins for Bellator 30 took place today at Fourth Street Live! in Louisville, Ky.
All fighters weighed in without issue.
Among the 18 fighters who hit the scales were middleweight veterans Bryan Baker and Jeremy Horn, who face off in a special attraction bout on the event's televised card, and the semifinalists of the promotion's season-three bantamweight tourney.
A nine-fight lineup is set for Thursday's Bellator 30 event following the preliminary-card additions of middleweights Josh Clark vs. John Troyer and heavyweights Ron Sparks vs. Greg Maynard.
Bellator 30 takes place Sept. 23 at Fourth Street Live! in Louisville, Ky.
The main card, including a Jeremy Horn vs. Bryan Baker headliner, airs on FOX Sports Net.
MMA Live previews next week’s UFC Fight Night 22 in Austin, TX. Nate Marquardt checks in before his main event spot opposite Rousimar Palhares. A discussion on the continued success of wrestlers in MMA and highlights from Joe Warren’s Bellator comeback.
Fans can watch today’s UFC Live: Jones vs. Matyushenko weigh-ins live online at UFC.com/Live beginning at 7 PM EST (4 PM PST). Also streaming live this afternoon will be a UFC Fight Club Q&A session featuring light-heavyweight fighter Krzysztof Soszynski starting at 5 PM EST (2 PM PST).
Today’s weigh-ins will take place at the San Diego Sports Arena in California with 20 fighters hitting the scales for Sunday’s event which will air live for free on the Versus network.
Headlining the event is a light-heavyweight bout between Jon “Bones” Jones and “The Janitor” Vladimir Matyushenko. The co-main event has middleweights Mark Muñoz taking on Yushin Okami with a victory moving either fighter into the upper echelons of the division.
Main Card:
Light Heavyweight bout: Jon Jones (206) vs. Vladimir Matyushenko (206)
Middleweight bout: Mark Muñoz (185) vs. Yushin Okami (185)
Welterweight bout John Howard (170.5) vs. Jake Ellenberger (170.5)
Lightweight bout: Tyson Griffin (154) vs. Takanori Gomi (156)
Preliminary card:
Lightweight bout: Paul Kelly (155) vs. Jacob Volkmann (156)
Welterweight bout: DaMarques Johnson (172.5)* vs. Matt Riddle (171)
Light Heavyweight bout: James Irvin (205) vs. Igor Pokrajac (204.5)
Middleweight bout: Brian Stann (186) vs. Mike Massenzio (184)
Lightweight bout: Darren Elkins (154.5) vs. Charles Oliveira (154)
Middleweight bout: Rob Kimmons (185) vs. Steve Steinbeiss (185)
Update: * Johnson had sixty minutes to cut the 1.5 pounds but failed to make weight on his second attempt. His bout versus Riddle has now been designated a catchweight bout and Johnson will be fined 20% of his purse.
UFC light-heavyweight fighter “The Polish Experiment” himself, Krzysztof Soszynski (21-10-1) will host today’s UFC Fight Club Q&A session in San Diego, Calif. You can watch it streamed live beginning at 5 PM EST (2 PM PST) and then catch the live weigh-ins for “UFC Live: Jones vs. Matyushenko” afterwords.
Visit UFC.com/Live to catch the Q& A with Soszynski and the weigh-ins after.
Soszynski is coming off a second round loss to “The American Psycho” Stephan Bonnar at UFC 116, a back-to-back rematch between both men after Bonnar lost the first bout via TKO (cut) due to an inadvertent headbutt. Their UFC 116 bout had Bonnar stopping “The Polish Experiment” via TKO (punches) at 3:08 of the second, a fight which earned both men the “Fight of the Night” honor. An award that was also won by the co-main event headliners Chris Leben and Yoshihiro Akiyama.
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Official fighter weigh-ins for Bellator 30 take place today at Fourth Street Live! in Louisville, Ky.
A nine-fight lineup is set for Thursday's Bellator 30 event following the preliminary-card additions of middleweights Josh Clark vs. John Troyer and heavyweights Ron Sparks vs. Greg Maynard.
