Karl Amoussou joins Bellator's season-six welterweight tournament

Karl Amoussou (13-4-2 MMA, 1-1 BFC) is making the full drop from middleweight to welterweight for Bellator's season-six tournament.

Officials today announced that Amoussou has joined the eight-man field for the 170-pound tourney.

Amoussou, an M-1 and Strikeforce vet, recently score a vicious first-round TKO of Jesus Martinez in a 175-pound catchweight fight at Bellator 59 to begin the drop in weight class.

He now joins Carlos Alexandre Pereira (33-9-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) and War Machine (12-4 MMA, 0-0 BFC) in the tourney, which kicks off in March on MTV2.

Amoussou made his Bellator debut back in May and suffered a close split-decision defeat to Sam Alvey (who went on to compete in a season-five middleweight tourney) at Bellator 45. Following the loss, the French-born Amoussou announced plans to move down to welterweight.

He now enters the tournament with a 8-3-1 mark in his past 12 fights. Included in the run was a draw with Trevor Prangley at Strikeforce Challengers 6 and a decision loss to Kazuhiro Nakamura at DREAM.15. Still, he has stopping power; 11 of his 13 career wins have come via stoppage.

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

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