Bellator 96 Line Up
The 2013 Bellator Summer Series kicks of on Wednesday June 19 with Bellator 96 at the Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. For this year’s Summer Series the tournament have been changed up from a normal tournament field of 8 competitors, to a 4-man field in order to have more tournaments during the Summer Series. Bellator 96 will feature the Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight tournaments opening round. The headlining bout will see “King Mo’ Muhammed Lawal vs. Seth “The Silerback” Petruzelli in a Light Heavyweight tournament opening round match-up.
Spike TV Main Card at 8:00 PM ET
Muhammed Lawal (9-2) vs. Seth Petruzelli (14-7) Light Heavyweight Tournament
Renato Sobral (37-10) vs. Jacob Noe (11-2) Light Heavyweight Tournament
War Machine (12-4) vs. Blas Avena (8-6) Welterweight
Vitaly Minakov (10-0) vs. Ron Sparks (8-1) Heavyweight Tournament
TV Swing Bout
Vinicius Queiroz (6-3) vs. Richard Hale (21-5-1) Heavyweight Tournament
Spike.com Prlims at 6:00 PM ET
Jeremiah O’Neil (12-21) vs. Raphael Butler (5-0) at Heavyweight
Brandon Gritz (9-2) vs. Derek Campos (9-3) at Catchweight
Brandon Halsey (3-0) vs. Joe Yager (5-1) at Light Heavyweight
Justin McNally (1-0) vs. Steven Artoff (5-1) at Bantamweight
Keith Miner (5-4) vs. Damon Jackson (4-0) at Lightweight
Mike Maldonado (4-0) vs. Chavous Smith (2-3) at Bantamweight
Jarrod Card (12-50 vs. Chas Skelly (0-0) at Featherweight
Keith Berry (14-10) vs. Cortez Coleman (9-3) at Middleweight
Card and order of fights was taken from Bellator.com