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The Bellator 208 weigh-in results are in and all main card fighters made weight. Tomorrow night (Oct. 13), Bellator 208 will take place inside the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY. In the main event, Fedor Emelianenko and Chael Sonnen will do battle in…
The Bellator 208 weigh-in results are in and all main card fighters made weight. Tomorrow night (Oct. 13), Bellator 208 will take place inside the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY. In the main event, Fedor Emelianenko and Chael Sonnen will do battle in a semifinal bout in the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix. The winner will meet […]
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Fighters have hit the scales to officially weigh-in.
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Bellator 208 weigh-in results have been released as the fighters took the stage to get ready for battle inside of the cage under the promotion banner.
Bellator 208 is set to take place on Saturday, October 13, 2018 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The preliminary card will air online at 7:00 pm EST while the main card will air on Paramount Network at 9:00 PM EST.
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Chael Sonnen in a heavyweight tournament semifinal bout will be the headliner while Alexander Shlemenko vs. Anatoly Tokov in a middleweight will serve as the co-main event.
Rounding out the five bout card is Benson Henderson vs. Saad Awad in a lightweight bout, Cheick Kongo vs. Timothy Johnson in a heavyweight bout, and Andy Main vs. Henry Corrales in a featherweight bout.
Bellator officials held the weigh-ins for Bellator 208 on Friday morning and here are the weigh-in results:
MAIN CARD (Paramount Network, 9 p.m. ET)
PRELIMINARY CARD (Online, 7 p.m. ET)
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He may be just two wins away from winning the Heavyweight Grand Prix but that didn’t stop Chael Sonnen from trashing the entire division. Sonnen will be facing arguably the greatest heavyweight fighter in mixed martial arts history on Saturday night (Oct 13, 2018) as he squares off against Fedor Emelianenko in the main event […]
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He may be just two wins away from winning the Heavyweight Grand Prix but that didn’t stop Chael Sonnen from trashing the entire division.
Sonnen will be facing arguably the greatest heavyweight fighter in mixed martial arts history on Saturday night (Oct 13, 2018) as he squares off against Fedor Emelianenko in the main event of Bellator 208.
“I think it discredits all the heavyweights completely,” Sonnen told MMAjunkie.“The best thing to do with heavyweights is to keep them the hell from any other weight class. They’re the worst athletes in the room, they’re the slowest guys in the room. They’re the laziest guys in the room – which is why they weigh so goddamn much.
“If you want to keep the mystique going on to the public that size matters and that the big guys are better, just because they’re bigger if you want to keep that false narrative out there, keep us, real athletes, away from the heavyweights. I think (the Grand Prix) was a risky move. They tried it on the other side of the tracks, and a light heavyweight now has that strap, too. Heavyweights suck, Mitrione is right.”
Sonnen is referring to Daniel Cormier, who won the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix as an unknown alternate. However, unlike Cormier, “The American Gangster” just recently made his heavyweight debut against Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in the first round of the Grand Prix.
If Sonnen does beat Emelianenko on Saturday night he will advance to fight finals. There he will face the winner of the other semifinal bout, either Matt Mitrione or Ryan Bader.
If Sonnen had things his way, he would save the promotion some money on travel expenses.
“If there’s a quick fight up in the Mohegan Sun, they can just bring one of those sons of (expletives) down here, I’ll fight them tomorrow night. We can save Bellator on the travel money,” Sonnen said. “I don’t have any idea why we have to spread this thing out. People are talking about a quick turnaround to January 26; what’s quick about that? Let’s go on the back, let’s have a drink of water, let’s walk back out there. If I’ve got to change my shorts so there’s a red corner, blue corner, let’s do it.
“Matt Mitrione is saying I’m too small to win this tournament? I cut him in half and fight him twice. Why do I give a damn what Matt Mitrione thinks? He can bring himself and Ryan Bader. Ryan Bader walking around like he’s some kind of ape. I’ll treat him like an ape. I’ll sit on the crowd tomorrow night and throw bananas at him.”
Knowing full well that Fedor wouldn’t give him much to work with in terms of trash talking ammunition, Sonnen went the other way, complementing the Russian.
“He shows up in a language that nobody can understand, in a T-shirt that nobody can read, and somehow that gets over,” Sonnen said. “And I wouldn’t encourage any young fighter to copy that example unless you want to have a short career and no money, and bad memories when it’s over. I would encourage you to find another guy and take his paradigm. But it seems to work for him.
“I’m not really saying this to be the skunk of the garden party, as much as to point out that, look, he figured something out. (Former UFC heavyweight champion) Brock Lesnar is the same way. There’s a mystique around them that happens to work and less is more. If he opens his mouth, he runs the risk of ruining the mystique. It’s still a marketing angle, it’s still a gimmick, and people can choose to believe that he’s the world’s nicest guy. And he might be, but he might not. You don’t know him, and neither do I.”
Sonnen wasn’t done yet. He wanted to remind the world who the king of trash talking was following UFC 229’s melee.
“I’ve sold more pay-per-views than anybody, more tickets than anybody, that was on the other side of the bridge,” Sonnen said. “Now I’m over there with the boys in San Jose – I still have the live gate record. I did it a year ago, at (Madison Square Garden), and nobody’s touched it since. I will outdo myself once again; beat my own records. It’s the same thing I had to do my whole career, and nobody else wants to talk to anybody else. And I’m not even trying to be an arrogant prick about it. I realize how that sounds.
“Why would they have a press conference and bring other people in here? What the hell does anybody want to ask them for? I look around the stage – bunch of very nice guys, bunch of guys that I like very much. I did’t even know when they were on the card until they sat down here today. And I love the sport. I follow it very closely, and I didn’t have the foggiest idea. And neither did you, and neither did anybody else. I’m just looking around going, ‘You know, we really could have saved some time.’”
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Bellator MMA has a full weekend of mixed martial arts action ahead. The bouts will kick off with tomorrow’s Bellator 207 from Uncasville, Connecticut, and conclude with Saturday night’s Bellator 208 from Uniondale, New York. Yet at today’s Bellator 207 & 208 pre-fight press conference, the UFC 229 brawl was still the topic of discussion. […]
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Bellator MMA has a full weekend of mixed martial arts action ahead. The bouts will kick off with tomorrow’s Bellator 207 from Uncasville, Connecticut, and conclude with Saturday night’s Bellator 208 from Uniondale, New York. Yet at today’s Bellator 207 & 208 pre-fight press conference, the UFC 229 brawl was still the topic of discussion.
Many of the fighters including Russians Fedor Emelianenko and Alexander Shlemenko were asked about the brawl between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor’s camps. Fedor declined to comment on the matter. The Pride legend said he hadn’t watched the fight (via MMAJunkie) because he was preparing for Bellator 208:
“I cannot give you any comments, because I didn’t watch this fight,” Emelianenko said. “During my camp, I don’t watch any fights. I have heard about the brawl. But at the moment, I’m not going into details.”
Shlemenko voiced his support for his fellow countryman.
However, Bellator President Scott Coker was far from as forgiving in his response. He vehemently blasted the post-fight melee by calling it a ‘black eye’ and ’embarrassment for the sport’:
“To me, it’s a black eye for the industry. It’s up to all of us to pick it up and make sure something like that never happens again.
“But that was embarrassing moment for the sport, as far as I’m concerned.”
Its tough to argue with Coker’s point of view on this. Of course, he’s no stranger to in-cage post-fight brawls on high-profile shows. The infamous Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller vs. Diaz brothers brawl at Strikeforce: Nashville back in the day gave him firsthand experience.
UFC President Dana White made light of the situation then. Perhaps he’s not laughing as much today. Or perhaps he’s simply laughing much more as the prospect of a rematch of the already record-breaking Khabib vs. McGregor looms overhead.
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Chael Sonnen has addressed why he has said in the past that Fedor’s fights were fixed.
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Chael Sonnen clarifies his comments made in the past about how Fedor Emelianenko had fixed fights while competing under the now-defunct PRIDE banner.
The former middleweight and light heavyweight title contender is well known for his trash talk. In the past, Sonnen has discredited Emelianenko’s resume and questioned the legitimacy of his career in the promotion.
However, that has all changed while promoting his scheduled fight which is a heavyweight grand prix semifinal at Bellator 208. Now, Sonnen is praising Fedor as the greatest heavyweight of all time.
“I’ll clarify it: PRIDE was fixed,” Sonnen told MMAjunkie. “That’s not to say his fights were fixed. PRIDE was so long ago I can’t believe people are still talking about it. PRIDE had fixed fights, and that’s the way it goes. If you fix one fight your whole organization is ruined. I think it’s one of the reasons that they’re off TV and they’re out of business and they’re not doing it anymore.”
Sonnen continued by stating that if Fedor did have fixed fights then he would need to go back and look at them.
“If Fedor had fixed fights – I’d have to go back and look. I don’t remember thinking Fedor was in fixed fights, I don’t remember thinking a number of those guys were in fixed fights. But they fixed fights. Period.”
Sonnen was able to pick up a decision win over former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson at Bellator 192 at The Forum in Inglewood, California in January to move forward in the tournament.
Bellator 208 is set to take place on Saturday, October 13, 2018 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The preliminary card will air online at 7:00 pm EST while the main card will air on Paramount Network at 9:00 PM EST.
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Chael Sonnen has addressed why he has said in the past that Fedor’s fights were fixed.
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Chael Sonnen clarifies his comments made in the past about how Fedor Emelianenko had fixed fights while competing under the now-defunct PRIDE banner.
The former middleweight and light heavyweight title contender is well known for his trash talk. In the past, Sonnen has discredited Emelianenko’s resume and questioned the legitimacy of his career in the promotion.
However, that has all changed while promoting his scheduled fight which is a heavyweight grand prix semifinal at Bellator 208. Now, Sonnen is praising Fedor as the greatest heavyweight of all time.
“I’ll clarify it: PRIDE was fixed,” Sonnen told MMAjunkie. “That’s not to say his fights were fixed. PRIDE was so long ago I can’t believe people are still talking about it. PRIDE had fixed fights, and that’s the way it goes. If you fix one fight your whole organization is ruined. I think it’s one of the reasons that they’re off TV and they’re out of business and they’re not doing it anymore.”
Sonnen continued by stating that if Fedor did have fixed fights then he would need to go back and look at them.
“If Fedor had fixed fights – I’d have to go back and look. I don’t remember thinking Fedor was in fixed fights, I don’t remember thinking a number of those guys were in fixed fights. But they fixed fights. Period.”
Sonnen was able to pick up a decision win over former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson at Bellator 192 at The Forum in Inglewood, California in January to move forward in the tournament.
Bellator 208 is set to take place on Saturday, October 13, 2018 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The preliminary card will air online at 7:00 pm EST while the main card will air on Paramount Network at 9:00 PM EST.
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