Former M-1 champ Slava likely for Bellator tourney

Bellator Fighting Championships' international-recruiting efforts recently netted another top prospect.

Russian middleweight and light heavyweight Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (15-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) signed a multi-fight deal with Bellator this past month.

Now, the 23-year-old is expected to be part of Bellator's season-six middleweight tournament, sources told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

The eight-man tourney kicks off in March and airs on MTV2. Each tourney winner earns $100,000 in total pay and a guaranteed title shot. For the middleweights, that'll come against either reigning middleweight champ Hector Lombard or upcoming opponent and season-five tourney winner Alexander Shlemenko.

Vasilevsky is riding a 14-fight win streak, which included a second-round TKO of Tomasz Narkun to become the first-ever M-1 Global light-heavyweight champion. Ten of his 15 career victories have come via stoppage (five via knockout and five via submission).

The two-time world combat-sambo champion currently is based out of New Jersey with K-Dojo MMA.

ZuffaKiller wrote:^^^Unless Storm beats him first in the rematch