Bellator tournaments

First, I realize the UFC is on right now and some of these people may have already lost, but people who I think will be cut from the UFC if they lose tonight include Stefan Struve, Denis Stojnic, Paul Taylor, Denis Siver, Mustapha Al-Turk.

So yeah, Bellator tournaments. The longer these go on, the more Bellator is quickly becoming one of my favorite organizations. First of all, I love tournaments. Always have, always will. Seocnd of all, these tournaments are getting a ton of good, young fighters. Bellator picked up a bunch of guys that were 4-0, 5-0 who were not names yet but they took a chance on them and hoped that there inexperience did not matter and they are indeed good fighters. And this is working out beautifully for them. Joe Soto was 4-0 before he entered the Bellator tourney, all on local California shows and very few people had heard of him. What happens? He wins the tourney, knocking off tournament favorite Wilson Reis in the semis as well as veteran fighters Ben Greer and Yahir Reyes and all of a sudden you have a guy in Soto who people are interested to see and are talking about. He is obviously not top 10 at 145 yet, but he is only 22 years olds and has a bright future ahead of him.

Lyman Good picked up the welterweight tournament title last night. He is now 10-0 and he is only 24 years old and people are really interested in seeing him fight tougher competition. The Lightweight tournament title should go to Eddie Alvares and the Middleweight tournament final next weekend is a great fight between Hector Lombard and Jared Hess. So just look at who will be their tournaments champions.

FW - Joe Soto, 22 years old, 7-0-0
LW - should be Eddie Alvarez, 25 years old, will be then 18-2-0
WW - Lyman Good, 24 years old, 10-0-0
MW - either Hector Lombard, 31, and 21-2-1-1 or Jared Hess, 25, 10-0-1

Young guys with great record is a great foundation for the future for Bellator. Let's just hope and pray that the second season this fall gets on ESPN or ESPN2.