title: List of Bellator MMA alumni
text: # List of Bellator MMA alumni
  
  This is a list of former employees of the professional mixed martial arts promotion Bellator MMA (previously known as Bellator Fighting Championship). The fighters are listed in order by weight class.
  
  ## Alumni
  
  | | Name | Weight class | Bellator record |
  | - | - | - | - |
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  | United States of America | Cole Konrad | Heavyweight | 7–0 |
  | United States of America | Bobby Lashley | Heavyweight | 5–0 |
  | Russia | Vitaly Minakov | Heavyweight | 5–0 |
  | Croatia | Mirko Filipović | Heavyweight | 1–0 |
  | Bahamas | Kimbo Slice | Heavyweight | 1–0 (1) |
  | United States of America | Nick Rossborough | Heavyweight | 1–0–1 |
  | Bulgaria | Blagoy Ivanov | Heavyweight | 6–1 |
  | Russia | Alexander Volkov | Heavyweight | 6–3 |
  | United States of America | Raphael Butler | Heavyweight | 4–2–1 |
  | United States of America | Tony Johnson | Heavyweight | 3–1 |
  | American Samoa | Mighty Mo | Heavyweight | 3–1 |
  | United States of America | Shawn Jordan | Heavyweight | 3–1 |
  | Brazil | Thiago Santos | Heavyweight | 3–2 (1) |
  | United States of America | Dan Charles | Heavyweight | 3–3–1 |
  | United States of America | Ron Sparks | Heavyweight | 3–3 |
  | United States of America | Mark Holata | Heavyweight | 3–3 |
  | South Africa | Neil Grove | Heavyweight | 3–4 |
  | United States of America | Ryan Martinez | Heavyweight | 3–4 |
  | United States of America | Eric Prindle | Heavyweight | 3–5 (1) |
  | United States of America | Eddie Sanchez | Heavyweight | 2–1 |
  | United States of America | Brett Rogers | Heavyweight | 1–1 |
  | Australia | Peter Graham | Heavyweight | 1–2 |
  | United States of America | Lavar Johnson | Heavyweight | 1–3 |
  | England | Mark Godbeer | Heavyweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Derrick Mehmen | Heavyweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Paul Buentello | Heavyweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Ricco Rodriguez | Heavyweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Derrick Lewis | Heavyweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Sherman Pendergarst | Heavyweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Josh Burns | Heavyweight | 0–6 |
  | Bahamas | Dada 5000 | Heavyweight | 0–0 (1) |
  | United States of America | Rich Hale | Heavyweight Light Heavyweight | 6–4 |
  | United States of America | Travis Wiuff | Heavyweight Light Heavyweight | 4–2 |
  | United States of America | Virgil Zwicker | Heavyweight Light Heavyweight | 4–2–1 |
  | United States of America | Joey Beltran | Heavyweight Light Heavyweight | 3–5 |
  | United States of America | Ken Shamrock | Heavyweight Light Heavyweight | 0–2 |
  | Brazil | Royce Gracie | Light Heavyweight | 1–0 |
  | Slovakia | Attila Végh | Light Heavyweight | 5–1 |
  | United States of America | Tito Ortiz | Light Heavyweight | 3–1 |
  | United States of America | Kelly Anundson | Light Heavyweight | 3–1 |
  | Cameroon | Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou | Light Heavyweight | 2–1 |
  | United States of America | Emanuel Newton | Light Heavyweight | 8–4 |
  | France | Francis Carmont | Light Heavyweight | 3–2 |
  | Russia | Mikhail Zayats | Light Heavyweight | 3–2 |
  | United States of America | Jacob Noe | Light Heavyweight | 3–2 |
  | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Christian M'Pumbu | Light Heavyweight | 3–4 |
  | Belarus | Vladimir Matyushenko | Light Heavyweight | 1–1 |
  | United States of America | Rodney Wallance | Light Heavyweight | 1–1 |
  | United States of America | Aaron Rosa | Light Heavyweight | 1–1 |
  | United States of America | Houston Alexander | Light Heavyweight | 1–2–1 |
  | United States of America | Seth Petruzelli | Light Heavyweight | 1–2 |
  | United States of America | Razak Al-Hassan | Light Heavyweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Stephan Bonnar | Light Heavyweight | 0–1 |
  | Brazil | Renato Sobral | Light Heavyweight | 0–2 |
  | United States of America | Joe Vedepo | Light Heavyweight Middleweight | 4–3 |
  | United States of America | Anthony Ruiz | Light Heavyweight Middleweight | 0–2 |
  | Cuba | Hector Lombard | Middleweight | 8–0 |
  | United States of America | Anthony Smith | Middleweight | 2–0 |
  | United States of America | David Branch | Middleweight | 2–0 |
  | United States of America | Tamdan McCrory | Middleweight | 2–0 |
  | United States of America | Louis Taylor | Middleweight | 2–0 |
  | Canada | Elias Theodorou | Middleweight | 1–0 |
  | Jamaica | Uriah Hall | Middleweight | 1–0 |
  | Canada | Nick Ring | Middleweight | 1–0 |
  | United States of America | Dan Cramer | Middleweight | 8–2 |
  | United States of America | Brandon Halsey | Middleweight | 7–2 |
  | United States of America | Doug Marshall | Middleweight | 4–2 |
  | United States of America | Bubba McDaniel | Middleweight | 3–1 |
  | Brazil | Maiquel Falcão | Middleweight | 3–1 |
  | United States of America | Perry Filkins | Middleweight | 2–1 |
  | United States of America | Eric Schambari | Middleweight | 2–1 |
  | Brazil | Vitor Vianna | Middleweight | 2–2 |
  | Denmark | Mikkel Parlo | Middleweight | 4–3 |
  | United States of America | Jared Hess | Middleweight | 4–4 |
  | United States of America | Kendall Grove | Middleweight | 4–5 |
  | Sweden | Andreas Spång | Middleweight | 1–2 |
  | United States of America | Joe Schilling | Middleweight | 1–2 |
  | United States of America | Sam Alvey | Middleweight | 1–1 |
  | Russia | Vyacheslav Vasilevsky | Middleweight | 1–1 |
  | United States of America | Jeremy Kimball | Middleweight | 1–1 |
  | United States of America | Josh Samman | Middleweight | 0–1 |
  | South Africa | Trevor Prangley | Middleweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Matt Horwich | Middleweight | 0–2 |
  | United States of America | Bryan Baker | Middleweight Welterweight | 8–4 |
  | United States of America | Bret Cooper | Middleweight Welterweight | 7–5 |
  | France | Karl Amoussou | Middleweight Welterweight | 5–4 |
  | United States of America | Nate James | Middleweight Welterweight | 1–1 |
  | United States of America | Joe Riggs | Middleweight Welterweight | 1–1 |
  | United States of America | Rudy Bears | Middleweight Welterweight | 2–7 |
  | United States of America | Ben Askren | Welterweight | 9–0 |
  | Canada | Ryan Ford | Welterweight | 2–0 |
  | United States of America | Dom O'Grady | Welterweight | 2–0 |
  | United States of America | Kris McCray | Welterweight | 1–0 |
  | United States of America | Kenny Robertson | Welterweight | 1–0 |
  | Brazil | Cristiano Souza | Welterweight | 3–1 |
  | United States of America | Jay Hieron | Welterweight | 3–1 |
  | United States of America | Adam McDonough | Welterweight | 3–1 |
  | United States of America | Paul Bradley | Welterweight | 3–1 (1) |
  | France | Nordine Taleb | Welterweight | 2–1 |
  | United States of America | War Machine | Welterweight | 2–1 |
  | Dominican Republic | Omar de la Cruz | Welterweight | 2–1 |
  | United States of America | Lyman Good | Welterweight | 8–3 |
  | United States of America | Ben Saunders | Welterweight | 7–3 |
  | United States of America | Brent Weedman | Welterweight | 8–4 |
  | Lithuania | Marius Žaromskis | Welterweight | 4–3 |
  | United States of America | Dan Hornbuckle | Welterweight | 3–3 |
  | Armenia | Karo Parisyan | Welterweight | 2–2 |
  | United States of America | Steve Carl | Welterweight | 2–2 |
  | United States of America | Tyler Stinson | Welterweight | 2–2 |
  | Brazil | Luis Santos | Welterweight | 2–2 |
  | United States of America | Raul Amaya | Welterweight | 2–2 |
  | United States of America | Chris Lozano | Welterweight | 2–3 |
  | United States of America | Ron Keslar | Welterweight | 2–3 |
  | United States of America | Justin Baesman | Welterweight | 1–2–1 |
  | England | Jim Wallhead | Welterweight | 1–2 |
  | Brazil | Evangelista Santos | Welterweight | 1–2 |
  | United States of America | Nah-Shon Burrell | Welterweight | 1–2 |
  | United States of America | Ryan Thomas | Welterweight | 1–3 |
  | United States of America | Dante Rivera | Welterweight | 1–1 |
  | United States of America | Herman Terrado | Welterweight | 0–1–1 |
  | Brazil | Carlos Eduardo Rocha | Welterweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Phil Baroni | Welterweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | John Kolosci | Welterweight | 0–1 |
  | Japan | Yoshiyuki Yoshida | Welterweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Brian Warren | Welterweight | 0–2 |
  | United States of America | Jacob McClintock | Welterweight | 0–2 |
  | United States of America | Mike Bronzoulis | Welterweight Lightweight | 0–2 |
  | United States of America | Rick Hawn | Welterweight Lightweight | 10–4 |
  | United States of America | LaRue Burley | Lightweight | 3–0 |
  | Mexico | Efrain Escudero | Lightweight | 2–0 |
  | United States of America | Drew Dober | Lightweight | 1–0 |
  | United States of America | Eddie Alvarez | Lightweight | 9–1 |
  | United States of America | Will Brooks | Lightweight | 9–1 |
  | United States of America | Jorge Masvidal | Lightweight | 2–1 |
  | United States of America | Phillipe Nover | Lightweight | 2–1 |
  | Poland | Marcin Held | Lightweight | 11–3 |
  | United States of America | Dave Jansen | Lightweight | 7–2 |
  | United States of America | Toby Imada | Lightweight | 5–3 |
  | Russia | Alexander Sarnavskiy | Lightweight | 5–3 |
  | United States of America | Jason Fischer | Lightweight | 4–3 |
  | Brazil | Ricardo Tirloni | Lightweight | 3–4 |
  | United States of America | Carey Vanier | Lightweight | 2–2 |
  | United States of America | Rich Clementi | Lightweight | 2–3 |
  | United States of America | Lloyd Woodard | Lightweight | 2–3 |
  | United States of America | Roger Huerta | Lightweight | 1–3 |
  | Canada | John Alessio | Lightweight | 1–1 (1) |
  | United States of America | Eric Reynolds | Lightweight | 1–2 |
  | United States of America | J. J. Ambrose | Lightweight | 1–2 |
  | United States of America | Waylon Lowe | Lightweight | 1–1 |
  | Canada | Mike Ricci | Lightweight | 0–1 |
  | Japan | Shinya Aoki | Lightweight | 0–1 |
  | Japan | Akihiro Gono | Lightweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Kurt Pellegrino | Lightweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Rob McCullough | Lightweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Marcus Davis | Lightweight | 0–1 (1) |
  | United States of America | Dakota Cochrane | Lightweight | 0–2 |
  | United States of America | Melvin Guillard | Lightweight | 0–3 (1) |
  | United States of America | Josh Neer | Lightweight | 0–3 |
  | United States of America | Bubba Jenkins | Lightweight Featherweight | 8–3 |
  | United States of America | Frank Caraballo | Lightweight Featherweight | 2–1 |
  | Russia | Magomedrasul Khasbulaev | Featherweight | 5–0 |
  | United States of America | Rad Martinez | Featherweight | 5–1 |
  | United States of America | Joe Soto | Featherweight | 4–1 |
  | United States of America | Matt Bessette | Featherweight | 7–2 |
  | Brazil | Alexandre Bezerra | Featherweight | 7–2 |
  | Brazil | Marlon Sandro | Featherweight | 8–3 |
  | United States of America | Justin Wilcox | Featherweight | 3–2 |
  | Russia | Shahbulat Shamhalaev | Featherweight | 3–2 |
  | Peru | Luis Palomino | Featherweight | 3–3 |
  | United States of America | Kenny Foster | Featherweight | 3–6 |
  | Brazil | Saul Almeida | Featherweight | 2–2 |
  | Brazil | Wagnney Fabiano | Featherweight | 1–1 |
  | Russia | Akop Stepanyan | Featherweight | 1–4 |
  | United States of America | Jeremy Spoon | Featherweight | 1–2 |
  | United States of America | Mike Corey | Featherweight | 1–1–1 |
  | Canada | Chris Horodecki | Featherweight | 1–2–1 |
  | United States of America | Nam Phan | Featherweight | 0–1 |
  | United States of America | Donny Walker | Featherweight | 0–1 |
  | Brazil | Diego Nunes | Featherweight | 0–2 |
  | United States of America | Mike Richman | Featherweight Bantamweight | 7–5 |
  | Brazil | Wilson Reis | Featherweight Bantamweight | 5–4 |
  | England | Ronnie Mann | Featherweight Bantamweight | 3–3 |
  | United States of America | Jimmie Rivera | Lightweight Bantamweight | 4–0 |
  | United States of America | Anthony Birchak | Bantamweight | 1–0 |
  | United States of America | Rob Emerson | Bantamweight | 2–1 |
  | United States of America | Zach Makovsky | Bantamweight | 6–2 |
  | Brazil | Luis Nogueira | Bantamweight | 5–2 |
  | United States of America | Travis Marx | Bantamweight | 3–2 |
  | Brazil | Rafael Silva | Bantamweight | 3–2 |
  | United States of America | Ed West | Bantamweight | 4–4 |
  | United States of America | Anthony Leone | Bantamweight | 3–4 |
  | Cuba | Alexis Vila | Bantamweight | 2–2 |
  | United States of America | Chase Beebe | Bantamweight | 2–2 |
  | Brazil | Rodrigo Lima | Bantamweight | 1–2 |
  | United States of America | Bryan Goldsby | Bantamweight | 1–3 |
  | United States of America | Jeff Curran | Bantamweight | 0–1 |
  