Bellator Fighting Championships today announced a broadcast deal for its second and third seasons that will see the promotion’s events air live on Fox Sports Net, followed by highlight shows on NBC and Telemundo.

“Since our launch earlier this year, there has been an overwhelming demand from MMA fans nationwide for us to broadcast our events live and through a widely available platform,” Bellator CEO/Founder Bjorn Rebney said. “We are thrilled to have signed this groundbreaking agreement with FOX Sports Net, NBC and Telemundo, which will bring our unique and exciting brand of tournament-based MMA events to a dramatically expanded audience of both English- and Spanish-speaking fans.”

Check out middleweight Hector Lombard’s championship victory and Stefanie Guimareas’ knee KO of Yvonne Reis after the jump…

Lightweight Eddie Alvarez and middleweight Hector Lombard won their respective tournaments on Friday at Bellator XII in Hollywood, Florida, the final event of the upstart promotion’s inaugural season.

Alvarez submitted Toby Imada with a rear naked choke early in the second-round of their headliner to win the 155-pound title and $100,000 prize, while Lombard stopped Jared Hess due to a cut in the fourth-round to earn the 185-pound belt and $100,000 bonus.

The remaining Bellator tournament finalists, lightweights Eddie Alvarez and Toby Imada and welterweights Hector Lombard and Jared Hess, successfully weighed in on Thursday for Bellator XII, which takes place on Friday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

Twelve other fighters scheduled to compete in non-tourmament bouts at the event also made weight.

Lyman Good became the first-ever Bellator welterweight champion on Friday in Uncasville, Connecticut, knocking out Omar De La Cruz just 83-seconds into their Bellator XI headliner to win the promotion's 170-pound tournament and its $100,000 bonus.

Welterweight finalists Lyman Good and Omar De La Cruz successfully weighed-in on Thursday for the Bellator 170-pound tournament final and championship bout, which headlines Bellator XI on Friday in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Upstart MMA promotion Bellator Fighting Championships will conclude its first season with events on June 12 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut and June 19 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

Following a dominant first round, Joe Soto forced Yahir Reyes to submit to a rear naked choke late in the second frame of their headlining bout at Bellator X at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California on Friday to become the promotion's first featherweight champion.

All 16 fighters set to compete tonight at Bellator X at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California successfully made weight at yesterday's weigh-ins. Featherweight finalists Joe Soto and Yahir Reyes will square off tonight in the promotion's first tournament final with the Bellator 145-pound title and a $100,000 prize on the line.

Middleweights Hector Lombard and Jared Hess will meet on June 19th in the 185-pound finals after both fighters earned first-round TKO victories on Friday at Bellator's week 9 event. The event took place at the Monroe Civic Center in Monroe, Louisiana and will air tonight on ESPN Deportes.

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Omar De La Cruz and Lyman Good advanced to the Bellator welterweight finals with victories on Friday at Bellator 7 in Chicago. In other action, Eddie Sanchez provided the promotion another highlight reel clip with a ten-second TKO while Kerry Vera and Leslie Smith engaged in an entertaining slugfest.

Weigh-ins for ShoMMA: Strikeforce Challengers 1, Bellator 7, and MFC 21: Hard Knocks took place on Thursday ahead of tonight's fight cards. Complete weigh-in results, which include notables Bobby Lashley, Trevor Prangley, and Billy Evangelista, are available after the jump.