The seventh season of the Bellator Fighting Championships continues on Friday night from The Reading Eagle Theater at The Sovereign Center in Reading, Pennsylvania and will feature the quarterfinals of this season’s lightweight tournament. 
The preliminary card will start at 6 p.m ET on Spike.com with six fights and the main card will begin at 8 p.m. ET on MTV2 and in commercial free high definition on EPIX2.
This lightweight tournament will feature five fighters that have not previously been in a Bellator tournament and three of those fighters will be making their Bellator debut on Friday night.
The quarterfinal bouts are Rich Clementi (43-21) vs. Alexander Sarnavskiy (20-0), Ricardo Tirloni (14-2) vs. Rene Nazare (10-2), Marcin Held (12-2) vs. Murad Machaev (9-0), and Dave Jansen (16-2) vs. Magomed Saadulaev (14-1).
The winners of the quarterfinal bouts will advance to the semifinals, which will take place later this season and Bellator has not announced when those fights will take place.
The full fight card is below and be sure to check out this week’s edition of “The MMA Report Podcast,” which will be released on Wednesday afternoon and feature interviews with lightweight tournament participants Alexander Sarnavskiy and Dave Jansen.
Main Card: (MTV2/EPIX2 – 8 p.m. ET)
Rich Clementi (43-21) vs. Alexander Sarnavskiy (20-0) *
Ricardo Tirloni (14-2) vs. Rene Nazare (10-2) *
Marcin Held (12-2) vs. Murad Machaev (9-0) *
Dave Jansen (16-2) vs. Magomed Saadulaev (14-1) *
Preliminary Card: (Spike.com – 6 p.m. ET)
Dave Morgan (5-1) vs. Matthew Lozano (1-0)
Brett Martinez (3-0) vs. Eric Albright (0-0)
Mike Bannon (4-0) vs. Cosmo Alexander (3-1)
Lewis Rumsey (8-8) vs. Duane Bastress (5-2)
Carmelo Marrero (14-5) vs. Lew Polley (11-4)
Emanuel Brooks (6-0) vs. Darrell Horcher (5-0)
* – Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinal