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Pat Curran Wins Bellator Season 2 Lightweight Championship
Pat Curran completed his unlikely Cinderella-story run through Bellator Fighting Championships’ Season 2 Lightweight Tournament on Thursday, scoring a split decision victory over MMA veteran and 2009 Submission of the Year titleholder Toby Imada to win the tournament championship.
Curran’s win headlined another great night of fights from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in South Florida, roughly 30 miles south of the high school that Curran represented in the state wrestling finals just four years ago.
On Thursday, with dozens of his friends and family looking on, the 22-year-old impressed the judges with an athletic takedown defense and a series of powerful blows to the head that opened two cuts around Imada’s right eye. With the win, Curran earned the Season 2 Championship and the right to fight reigning Bellator Lightweight Champion and 20-2 MMA star Eddie Alvarez
Josh Neer On His Upcoming Fight With Eddie Alvarez at Bellator 17
Josh Neer talks about his strategy for fighting Eddie Alvarez at Bellator 17 on May 6th from the Citi Performing Arts Center’s Wang Theatre in Boston, Mass. Thursday’s Bellator 17 card is stacking up, check out the main card matchups:
Eddie Alvarez vs. Josh Neer
Pat Curran vs. Roger Huerta [LW]
Toby Imada vs. Carey Vanier [LW]
Pat Bennett vs. Cole Konrad
Bellator can be seen on FOX Sports Net, Thursday nights.
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