J.J. Ambrose joins Bellator's season-six lightweight tourney

J.J. Ambrose (17-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC) is the sixth addition to Bellator's season-six lightweight tournament.

Ambrose, who's won seven straight fights, will make his promotional debut in the opening round of the eight-man tourney.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today confirmed his participation with sources close to the fighter. An official announcement is expected later this week.

Ambrose now joins Thiago Michel (9-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC), Patricky "Pitbull" Freire (10-2 MMA, 3-1 BFC), Brent Weedman (18-7-1 MMA, 4-2 BFC), Rick Hawn (11-1 MMA, 3-1 BFC) and Ricardo Tirloni (14-1 MMA, 1-0 BFC) as participants in the tourney, which kicks off in March on MTV2.

Ambrose, who turned pro in 2005, is 15-1 (with one no-contest) in his past 17 fights. The lone loss came to UFC fighter Mike Pyle in 2008 at "Affliction: Banned." Ambrose, who suffered a decision loss to Sevak Magakian in the elimination round of "The Ultimate Fighter 12," owns three knockouts and 10 submissions in 17 career victories. The Team Tiger Muay Thai fighter, who's also worked with American Kickboxing Academy and boxed professionally, is currently based out of California.

In addition to the lightweight tournament, Bellator is hostingseason-six tourneys in the bantamweight, featherweight, welterweight andmiddleweight divisions. Each tourney winner gets $100,000 in total payand a guaranteed title shot.

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