Bellator 72 Airing From Tampa On July 20
Posted on 02 Jun 2012
by MMAScoops.com Staff

Bellator 72, the second of the promotion's "Summer Series" events, will take place on July 20 at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida.

The show will have the season-six welterweight-tournament finale between Bryan Baker (18-3 MMA, 8-2 BFC) and Karl Amoussou (15-4-2 MMA, 3-1 BFC). Other bouts include the third meeting between welterweights Waachiim Spiritwolf (9-10-1 MMA, 0-1 BFC) and Marius Zaromskis (17-6 MMA, 1-0 BFC).

The first two fights between Spiritwolf and Zaromskis had controversial finishes. They fought first in late 2010 in Strikeforce where the fight was called a no content. Spiritwolf had a deep eyepoke six seconds into the fight. They fought again at Bellator 68 because of a stopped fight two rounds in. Spiritwold had a cut near his eye. Zaromskis is on a three fight win streak while Spiritworld has only won one of his last six fights.

Baker previously had semifinal and runner-up finishes in two prior middleweight tournaments. He advanced to this final after a split-decision win over Carlos Alexandre Pereira and a unanimous-decision victory over Ben Saunders. He's 5-1 in his past six fights. Amoussou advanced with wins over Chris Lozano via submission and David Rickels via split decision. He's currently on a three fight win streak in Bellator.

The card will also feature the semifinals of the eight-man "Summer Series" light-heavyweight tournament. The card will air on MTV2 after preliminary fights on Spike.com.