Top 20 Featherweight Daniel Straus Joins Season Four Bellator Tournament

(Straus lands on Karen Darabedyan at Shark Fights 13.)

Cincinnati, Ohio native Daniel Straus (#20 Featherweight) is the latest addition to Bellator’s season four Featherweight Tournament. The tournament winner will take home $100,000 and a shot at Bellator Featherweight Champion Joe Warren (#2)

“I like to fight at least once a month so this tournament format is perfect for me,” Straus is quoted in the press release. “If I’m not banged up or hurt, I like to keep training and turn around and get my next fight in.”

Straus joins Georgi Karakhanyan (#29 Featherweight), Kenny Foster, Zac George and Eric Larkin in the Featherweight Tournament field.

Bellator previously announced its upcoming Welterweight Tournament, which features Jay Hieron (#19 Welterweight), Steve Carl (#43), “Judo” Jimmy Wallhead, former Bellator Welterweight Champion Lyman Good (#38), Dan Hornbuckle (#57), Brent Weedman (#84), Chris Lozano, and former Olympic judoka Rick Hawn as they compete for $100,000 and a shot at Askren. Both Lozano and Hawn will enter our rankings after their first tournament fight.

The promotion’s inaugural Light-Heavyweight Tournament is the other officially-announced component of Bellator’s upcoming fourth season, which will air on MTV2. In the coming weeks, Bellator will announce the rest of its season four tournament participants. To date, the other announced fighters for season four are Joe Riggs, Daniel Gracie and Ron Sparks.

The promotion currently boasts champions in all men’s divisions but Flyweight and Light Heavyweight. Those champions are Zach Makovsky (#11 Bantamweight), Joe Warren (#2 Featherweight), Eddie Alvarez (#11 Lightweight), Ben Askren (#16 Welterweight), Hector Lombard (#6 Middleweight), Cole Konrad (#24 Heavyweight), and Zoila Frausto, who will likely be at the top of the heap when FIGHT! unveils its Women’s Flyweight Rankings.