Bellator Fighting Championships on Tuesday announced it had reached an exclusive agreement with featherweight prospect
Georgi Karakhanyan.
The 24-year-old will carry an eight-fight winning streak into Bellator’s second season, scheduled to begin in April. He becomes the latest in a string of acquisitions by the tournament-based promotion, which recently signed 2008 Olympian
Ben Askren, Arizona Combat Sports standout
Jacob McClintock and Sengoku veteran
Dan Hornbuckle.
“Georgi is a proven winner” Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney said in a release. “He brings an explosive style to the cage that makes for great fights.”
A former professional soccer player, Karakhanyan last competed in May, when he earned a unanimous decision against
Albert Rios at Call to Arms 1. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu brown belt has delivered eight of his 12 career wins by submission, seven of them inside one round. Karakhanyan, who trains out of the Millennia Mixed Martial Arts Training Center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., has never been finished. Nicknamed “Insane,” he suffered his lone defeat in a disputed split decision to
Chris David in 2008.
“I do some strange things in the cage sometime,” Karakhanyan said. “I talk to my corner; I talk to my opponents. I like to surprise people. That’s what I’m all about.”
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