Roger Huerta Officially Signs With Bellator
Posted by Larry Csonka on 03.15.2010
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According to MMA Junkie, former UFC Fighter Roger Huerta (21-3-1) has officially signed with Bellator Fighting Championships. Huerta will join the season-two eight-man lightweight tournament field, with his first fight being on April 8th at Bellator 13. Huerta joins season-one runner-up Toby Imada (23-13), Chad Hinton (6-0), Janne Tulirinta (12-3), Ferrid Kheder (16-5), Mike Ricci (5-0) and Cary Vanier (7-2) in the tournament. Here is the updated Bellator 13 card, the event will take place at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla.:
- Roger Huerta vs. TBA (lightweight tourney first round)*
- Eric Marriott vs. Joe Warren (featherweight tourney first round)
- Georgi Karakhanyan vs. Bao Quach (featherweight tourney first round)
I'm not a huge Huerta fan, but this is Huge for Bellator, and a great signing by them.
Posted By: Guest#6282 (Guest) on March 15, 2010 at 03:28 PM
why the fuck would he do this? no way this pays as well as the ufc was for their hispanic cover star
Posted By: Guest#2236 (Guest) on March 15, 2010 at 04:32 PM
"why the fuck would he do this? no way this pays as well as the ufc was for their hispanic cover star
Posted By: Guest#2236 (Guest) on March 15, 2010 at 04:32 PM"
Actually, Huerta had a $21k show rate for his UFN19; in his first fight for Bellator he would make about 10k to show and 10k to win (which he probably will). In his next fight he would make 30k, then 50k to win the tourney (which, frankly, I think would happen).
Bellator may pay worse than the UFC but it's MUCH better than he would get elsewhere (outside of DREAM or SRC)
Posted By: Bozo (Registered) on March 15, 2010 at 08:59 PM
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