Bellator 48 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT featured and amazing night of fights with the entire card putting on an exciting show.
After the event, Bleacher Report was able to catch up with the Bellator CEO, Bjorn Rebney, and get his thoughts on the evening.
Bjorn and I spoke briefly backstage before the main card started, and he voiced his concern that some of the fights may not be as good as they could be based on stylistic differences and things of that nature. When asked what he ended up thinking of the fights, he said “they turned out better than I could have hoped.”
When asked what Bjorn would say to the fans in attendance that booed during Cole Konrad’s fight, he said, “as a fan, I can appreciate the desire to see action…but when you look at a guy like Cole, you have to understand the totality of the fact that he just stood with a guy that has one way that he’s going to beat you, and that is left hand and right hand.”
After talking about Joe Warren’s sticky situation, we went on to talk about whether or not Joe Warren would lose some marketability if he loses in the bantamweight tournament. Bjorn did not think so.
To close out our chat with Bjorn, I asked his thoughts on fight night bonuses. He said, “I’ve never been a fan of it. I don’t think it’s wrong. It’s never been something I looked at and thought, ‘hey that’s an incentive'”
After that, I asked whether or not anyone would get a bonus for beating someone in Dennis Hallman trunks, to which Bjorn laughed and said, “I don’t know that if we gave bonuses that would warrant one.”
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