As a tourney favorite, Raphael Davis playing into strengths at tonight’s Bellator 38

Four more pounds.

That’s how much Raphael Davis needed to cut on Friday when he spoke with MMAjunkie.com Radio on the eve on his fight with D.J. Linderman in the opening round of Bellator’s season-four light-heavyweight tournament.

Other than the o…

Four more pounds.

That’s how much Raphael Davis needed to cut on Friday when he spoke with MMAjunkie.com Radio on the eve on his fight with D.J. Linderman in the opening round of Bellator’s season-four light-heavyweight tournament.

Other than the occasional needling of his manager, Ken Pavia, Davis thinks he had it considerably easier than Linderman, who’d moved from super heavyweight to heavyweight to light heavyweight.