Bellator signs Fabricio Guerreiro, expects Brazilian to be in next 145-pound tournament

Bellator Fighting Championships has added to the ranks of one of its most competitive divisions.

Fabricio Guerreiro (16-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) has signed with the promotion and is expected to make his debut with Bellator in 2013. Sources close to the promotion told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) of the signing.

Though a debut fight is not set, sources said Guerreiro likely would be tapped as one of the eight competitors in Bellator's Season 8 featherweight tournament.

After fighting eight times in 2011, Guerreiro has fought just once in 2012, picking up a first-round triangle-choke over Roberto Bruno da Silva in the main event of a regional show in his native Brazil.

In 2011, the 22-year-old suffered the only loss of his pro MMA career, a controversial TKO against Rafael Addario Bastos that many deemed an early stoppage just 48 seconds in. The two rematched a month later, and Guerreiro won with a third-round submission.

All told, 12 of Guerreiro's 16 career wins have come by submission, with two others by TKO. And half of his wins have come in the first round.

Though Guerreiro has fought at lightweight in the past, he'll fight in Bellator's 145-pound weight class, which currently is backed up due to injuries. Pat Curran won the title in March. He was scheduled to defend his title earlier this fall against tournament winner Patricio "Pitbull" Freire, but that fight was delayed with a Curran injury and now is expected to take place once Bellator moves from MTV2 to Spike TV in January.

The winner of that fight already has an opponent in waiting with Season 6 featherweight tournament winner Daniel Straus. And that winner then will have the eventual winner of the current Season 7 tournament, which ends in December, waiting in the wings.

That makes Bellator's featherweight division easily among its most stacked right now, and Guerreiro apparently will be thrown right into the tournament fire.

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Sounds like a very intriguing prospect. Bellator's 145 division is in dire need of more fresh faces and this is the perfect signing.

Good addition, i would like to see on the next tournament:
Marlon Sandro vs Mike Corey
Magomedrasul Khasbulaev vs Genair da Silva
Nazareno Malegarie vs Akop Stepanyan
Alexandre Bezerra vs Fabricio Guerreiro

doesnt matter because POPO will beat them all