The eligible fighters were all welterweights and included Paul Daley, Douglas Lima, Ben Saunders and War Machine.

[1] The card also featured the Bellator debut of Muhammed Lawal, against veteran Polish fighter Przemyslaw "Misiek" Mysiala.

[1] Results Bellator 87 took place on January 31, 2013 at Soaring Eagle Casino in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

However, on the day of the weigh ins Freire was pulled from the card due to an "undisclosed injury" and replaced by Saad Awad.

[7] A middleweight bout between Kelvin Tiller and Dave Vitkay was originally announced for this card, but failed to materialize.

[9] Results Bellator XC took place on February 21, 2013 at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah.

Results Bellator 91 took place on February 28, 2013 at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Background Bellator 91 featured the first title defense by Light Heavyweight champion Christian M'Pumbu, despite having won the belt in May 2011.

Background The card was originally scheduled to have the season 7 Lightweight tournament final between Dave Jansen and Marcin Held.

[14] The event was distributed live in prime time by Spike TV and featured the Season Seven Lightweight Tournament Final.

[15] Background Ben Saunders and Douglas Lima were scheduled to have a rematch on this card to decide the winner of the Bellator Season 8 Welterweight Tournament Final.

Jon Lemke defeated Jesse Erickson to kick off the event for the night and marked Bellator's 800th Fight in the history of the company.

[17] The event was distributed live in prime time by Spike TV and featured the Light Heavyweight and Lightweight Tournament Finals.

Background The event was initially scheduled to feature a championship match for the Featherweight Title between Pat Curran and Daniel Mason-Straus.

[19] On February 27, it was announced that recent tournament winner Shahbulat Shamhalaev would advance with his title shot and he faced Curran on this card.

[25] Both Derek Campos and Keith Berry missed weight for their fights; as a result, both fighters forfeited a portion of their purses to their opponents and the matches were changed to catchweight.

Results Bellator 97 took place on July 31, 2013 at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Douglas Lima and Ben Saunders were scheduled to fight in order to decide the next contender for the Welterweight title.

[27] The live airing featured the announcement of Bellator's first pay per view event for November 2, 2013 that will be headlined by Tito Ortiz versus Quinton Jackson.

However, on August 19 Marshall was forced out of the title bout due to an injury and was replaced by Season 8 Middleweight Tournament Runner Up Brett Cooper.

[29] The Fight Master: Bellator MMA finale between Joe Riggs and Mike Bronzoulis was expected to take place at this event.

Dan Cramer was originally scheduled to face Perry Filkins in the Middleweight tournament opening round, but withdrew from the match and was replaced by Jeremy Kimball.

[31] Andrew Calandrelli was originally scheduled to face Ryan Quinn, but was removed from the card and replaced by Brylan Van Artsdalen.

[34] A bantamweight bout between Derek Loffer and Mario Navarro was initially planned for this card, but cancelled for unknown reasons.

Matt Riddle was originally scheduled to face Luis Melo on this card, but pulled out due to a cracked rib.

[37] Mark Scanlon was originally scheduled to face Herman Terrado on this card, but pulled out due to an injury and was replaced by Rick Hawn Results Bellator 101 took place on September 27, 2013 at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Oregon.

Rob Sinclair was scheduled to face Rich Clementi in a Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinal fight, but on Sept. 9, 2013 had to pull out due to injury and was replaced by Ricardo Tirloni.

Marcin Held was originally scheduled to face Tirloni on the preliminary card, and Ryan Healy took the fight as a replacement.

Results Bellator 105 took place on October 25, 2013 at Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Heavyweight champion Alexander Volkov made the first defense of his title against Vitaly Minakov on this show in the co-main event.