Welterweight's Delight: Bellator Announces First Four Tourney Match Ups (VIDEO)

Yesterday Bellator announced the first quarterfinal pairings for its season four Welterweight Tournament. All four fights will take place on Sat., March 5 in Lemoore, Calif. at Bellator 35. The televised card features:

Former Bellator Welterweight Champion Lyman Good (#40 Welterweight) vs. Chris Lozano
Dan Hornbuckle (#60) vs. Brent Weedman (#91)
Jay Hieron (#18) vs. Steve Carl (#49)
Rick Hawn vs. Jim Wallhead

Bellator previously announced its Featherweight Tournament, which features Nazareno Melagarie, Patricio Freire (#21 Featherweight), Wilson Reis (#23), Daniel Straus (#20), Georgi Karakhanyan (#29), Kenny Foster, Zac George and Eric Larkin in the Featherweight Tournament field. The tournament winner will take home $100,000 and a shot at Bellator Featherweight Champion Joe Warren (#2)

The promotion’s inaugural Light-Heavyweight Tournament is the other officially-announced component of Bellator’s upcoming fourth season, which will air on MTV2. In the coming weeks, Bellator will announce the rest of its season four tournament participants. To date, the other announced fighters for season four are Joe Riggs, Daniel Gracie and Ron Sparks.

The promotion currently boasts champions in all men’s divisions but Flyweight and Light Heavyweight. Those champions are Zach Makovsky (#11 Bantamweight), Joe Warren (#2 Featherweight), Eddie Alvarez (#11 Lightweight), Ben Askren (#16 Welterweight), Hector Lombard (#6 Middleweight), Cole Konrad (#24 Heavyweight), and Zoila Frausto, who will likely be at the top of the heap when FIGHT! unveils its Women’s Flyweight Rankings.