Bryan Baker joins Bellator's season-six welterweight tourney

Bryan Baker has entered his third Bellator tournament. But this time, he's doing so in a new weight class.

Following a runner-up and semifinal finish in two earlier middleweight tournaments, Baker has joined the field for a season-six welterweight tourney.

Bellator chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney today announced the news.

The eight-man tourney kicks off in March, and the season airs on MTV2.

Baker now joins Brian Foster (18-5 MMA, 0-0 BFC), Karl Amoussou (13-4-2 MMA, 1-1 BFC), Carlos Alexandre Pereira (33-9-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) and War Machine (12-4 MMA, 0-0 BFC) in the tourney field.

Baker, a former WEC fighter, first joined Bellator in 2009. In 2010 he revealed he had been battling chronic myelogenous leukemia (a cancer of the white blood cells) but had done into remission. He's 3-1 since the news, and the lone loss came to Vitor Vianna in the semifinal round of Bellator's recent season-five middleweight tournament.

Baker has defeated many notables during his five-year career, including Matt Horwich, Eric Schambari, Jesse Forbes, Jeremy Horn and Joe Riggs. Eleven of his 16 wins have come via stoppage.

In addition to the welterweight tournament, Bellator is hosting season-six tourneys in the bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight and middleweight divisions. Each tourney winner gets $100,000 in total pay and a guaranteed title shot.

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