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Bellator Fighting Championships on Friday announced that Bellator IV, the fourth event of the highly anticipated 12-week tournament series airing on ESPN Deportes, will be held in Colorado Springs, Colo., on April 24, 2009. The event will take place at the World Arena in Colorado Springs, which rests just south of Denver in the shadow of the neighboring Rocky Mountains, a natural metaphor for Bellator’s combined feature events, “A Night of Heavyweights & the Semi-Final Round of the World Championship Lightweight Tournament.”The commanding roster of heavyweight fighters will anchor an action filled evening of competition featuring some of the best fighters this weight class has to offer. This Bellator special event will also feature a Lightweight semi-final tournament match-up, with the resulting winner advancing as a finalist for Bellator’s $175,000 Lightweight World Championship Fight.

“The fight card is packed with great Heavyweight match-ups and what promises to be a compelling Lightweight World Championship tournament Semi-Final,” said Bellator Fighting Championships CEO Bjorn Rebney. “Colorado MMA fans and our worldwide television audience should expect to see a night of powerful strikes, tactical submissions and crowd pleasing knockouts.”

Bellator IV will feature a collection of highly-competitive, action-packed Heavyweight bouts, a World Championship Semi-Final as well as a collection of spectacular special feature fights. The evening will also feature a bout between two top form female fighters, Molly Helsel versus Angela Hayes. The non-tournament Heavyweight bouts on show are detailed below:

Non-Tournament Bouts:
Heavyweight – Dave Herman (13-1) vs. Josh Barnes (5-1)
Heavyweight – Rauol Romero (3-1) vs. Dave Evensen (10-4)
Heavyweight – Eddie Sanchez (11-3) vs.Jay White (4-5)
Heavyweight – Tyler East (pro debut)) vs. Amedio Viola (0-1)
Heavyweight – Joey Beltran (5-2) vs. Sherman Pendergarst (11-12)
130 lbs. – Molly Helsel (7-7) vs. Angela Hayes (1-5)

Special Lightweight World Championship Semi-Final Tournament Match-Up
Based on the outcome of Bellator I, II & III

Bellator Fighting Championships’ premiere season consists of 12 two-hour events to be broadcast weekly in primetime on Saturday nights. The nationally televised events will feature a combination of tournament and non-tournament special feature bouts. There will be four simultaneous tournaments taking place in season 1 over a three month period: one in each of the Featherweight (145 lb.), Lightweight (155 lb.), Welterweight (170 lb.) and Middleweight (185 lb.) divisions.

Tickets for the Colorado Springs event will go on sale at 12:00 pm MT Friday, March 27, 2009 and can be purchased at the World Arena box office and through TicketsWest.

Jay White was crowned the new Heavyweight Champion last evening at Katana Cagefighting: Conquest in Robstown, Texas.

Jay defeated Ralph Kelley for the title just after the end of the first round. The referee stopped the fight as Kelley’s right eye socket was completely disfigured by White and was “swollen to the size of a small mandarin orange.”*

*www.caller.com/news/2008/dec/07/bellino-shines-in-cagefighting/

On DECEMBER 6, 2008 - RVCD Promotions Inc. presents, Katana Cagefighting “CONQUEST.” Katana Cagefighting will feature 20 of the hottest up-and-coming mixed martial artists from Las Vegas, Nevada and Texas.

Jay White, former Marine and Randy Couture’s long time friend and jiu-jitsu instructor, hails from Las Vegas, Nevada. Jay states he is eagerly awaiting to compete against Texas heavyweight sensation Ralph “The Machine Gun” Kelley. Ralph’s upset victory over UFC’s Mark Kerr just goes to show, DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS!

They say that a Hurricane wreaks havoc over whatever path it chooses to follow. On the same token, they say that a Scorpions sting is one of the deadliest in the world! This sounds like a recipe for some SERIOUS NIGHT OF ACTION! Come see Dallas Bad-Boy Ira “The Hurricane” Boyd as he challenges Corpus Christi’s rising sensation Danny “The Scorpion” Perez for our first ever 170 Title.

Katana is also proud to host the hard hitting grappler from Houston (Daniel “The Pit” Pineda) vs Corpus Christi’s very own (ALPHA DOG - Ira Evansen.) The title is on the line folks! Who really is the TOP DOG? Come to Katana Cagefighting “Conquest” on December 6 and find out!

On top of our 3 highly anticipated Main Events, we are hosting 6 incredible fighters in a Welterweight Challenger Series. The top welterweights will face off in the 170 lbs semi-final’s.

JOHN SPRINGER from Harlingen, TX will face CONAN CANO of Corpus Christi, TX
MIKEL BRONZOVLIS from Houston, TX will face MARK ORTIZ of Corpus Christi, TX
KYO GREGOIRE from San Antonio, TX will face JARRETT JONES of Odessa, TX
GOOD LUCK TO ALL OUR WELTERWEIGHTS!

October 11, 2008 Affliction’s Second MMA Event, “Day of Reckoning” will be held at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas. Jay has signed on the the card and will be fighting Chase Gormley (6-0). Also featured on the card are Josh Barnett vs Andre Arlovski for the No. 1 Heavyweight contender spot, Paul Buentello vs Roy Nelson, Vladimir “The Janitor” Matyushenko vs Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Jason High vs Mike Pyle.

On July 19th, Affliction: Banned hits the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The event will be live on Pay Per View. Banned will feature some of the best fighters in the sport including Fedor Emelianenko, Tim Sylvia, Matt Lindland, Mike Whitehead, Ben Rothwell, Renato “Babalu” Sobral, Paul Buentello, Aleksander Emelianenko and more…

You can now add Jay White to that list. Jay just signed on for the event’s undercard as an alternate.

Unfortunately, due to a fractured Ulna in his right arm, Jay will not be fighting this Saturday night at the 4 Bears Casino in New Town, North Dakota. Mike Whitehead will be fighting Zak Jensen in his place.

Jay fractured the bone late last week during training and didn’t realize it until a light training session yesterday. Doctors confirmed it was the Ulna and that he wouldn’t be able to fight with it.

Jay will still be training at Xtreme Couture while allowing the break to heal. As Jay put it, “I still have my left arm.”