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Bellator features actual brackets for Season 8 tournaments

Bellator Season 8 light heavyweight tournament bracket

As Bellator moves to a higher profile on Spike in 2013, the MMA promotion is tweaking its tournament structure with the addition of brackets.

Yes, brackets. You know, those sheets of paper with a bunch of horizontal and vertical lines that start on opposite sides and meet in the middle with one line and one name on that final line denoted by the word "Champion."

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