You can guess why Bryan Baker is rooting for Alexander Shlemenko.
The middleweights are not just on opposing brackets of the Bellator’s
season-five middleweight tournament. They have history. It was Baker
that Shlemenko beat to win the season-two tournament.
But to say he wasn’t firing on all cylinders when he met Shlemenko in
the finals would be a massive understatement. In less than three
minutes, Baker was on the mat with the referee waving off the bout. Now he’s hoping for a chance to set the record straight.