Top 30 Featherweight Georgi Karakhanyan Joins Season Four Bellator Tourney

By On Jan 27, 2011

(Karakhanyan knees Bao Quach into the land of wind and ghosts.)

Today Bellator announced that season two Featherweight Tournament participant Georgi “Insane” Karakhanyan (#29 Featherweight) would return in March for the season four tourney.

“Georgi’s a dangerous fighter,” said Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney. “His knockout of Quach was devastating and he put up a great fight against the world’s number two Featherweight Joe Warren. Georgi will definitely be in the hunt for this tournament championship.”

A Russian-born Armenian, Karakhanyan took up MMA full-time after the Major Indoor Soccer League team he played for, the San Diego Sockers, folded.

Karakhanyan joins Kenny Foster, Zac George and Eric Larkin as the only confirmed participants in the upcoming season four Featherweight Tournament.

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.