Bellator 41 Results: Warren, Makovsky And Featherweight Semifinals

Filed under: Bellator, Results, NewsMMA Fighting has Bellator results from the Cocopah Resort and Casino in Yuma, Arizona.

Bellator 41 features two featherweight tournament semifinal bouts, as well as a pair of superfights, one featuring featherweight…

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MMA Fighting has Bellator results from the Cocopah Resort and Casino in Yuma, Arizona.

Bellator 41 features two featherweight tournament semifinal bouts, as well as a pair of superfights, one featuring featherweight champ Joe Warren, and another with bantamweight kingpin Zach Makovsky.

Bellator 41 results are below.

Joe Warren Overcomes Rough Start to Win Controversial Bellator Superfight

Filed under: Bellator, NewsIt is bound to happen eventually, a Bellator champion losing in a non-title superfight while waiting for a challenger to emerge from the seasonal tournament brackets.

Joe Warren escaped becoming the first to join that list,…

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It is bound to happen eventually, a Bellator champion losing in a non-title superfight while waiting for a challenger to emerge from the seasonal tournament brackets.

Joe Warren escaped becoming the first to join that list, emerging with a unanimous decision win over Marcos Galvao, but he certainly had his share of scary moments on the way to what will certainly be viewed as a controversial decision.

Warren (7-1) got off to a horrific start in the 137-pound catch weight bout, ending up on his back after a missed takedown, with Galvao landing huge strikes and then transitioning into an arm bar before Warren pulled free.

The MMA Hour With Chael Sonnen, Brian Stann, Joe Warren, Sean Pierson

Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, Bellator, VideosThe MMA Hour returns on Monday with another two-hour live show. Here’s who we will be talking to:

* Chael Sonnen, who we have not heard from since December, will make his first public appearance to…

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The MMA Hour returns on Monday with another two-hour live show. Here’s who we will be talking to:

* Chael Sonnen, who we have not heard from since December, will make his first public appearance to address all the news going on his professional and personal life.

* UFC middleweight Brian Stann, who faces Jorge Santiago at UFC 130 in May.

* Bellator featherweight Joe Warren, who meets Marcos Galvao in a non-title fight at Bellator 41 on April 16.

* UFC welterweight Sean Pierson, who fights Brian Foster at UFC 129 later this month.

* MMA Fighting’s Japanese correspondent Daniel Herbertson, who will talk about life in Japan since last month’s natural disaster struck and the state of Japanese MMA.

* Matt Mitrione will return for the first time in three weeks to deliver his “Mitrione Minute.”

And of course, we’ll be taking your calls. Give us a shout at: 212-254-0193 or 212-254-0237.

Watch the show live below beginning at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT. Download previous episodes of The MMA Hour on iTunes: audio feed here; video feed here.

Bellator Champ Zack Makovsky Looks to Join World Bantamweight Elite

Filed under: FanHouse Exclusive, BellatorZack Makovsky captured his first championship belt in 2010 after winning Bellator’s inaugural bantamweight tournament. Makovsky’s rise to glory came quietly, which is not surprising given his soft-spoken nature….

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Zack Makovsky captured his first championship belt in 2010 after winning Bellator’s inaugural bantamweight tournament. Makovsky’s rise to glory came quietly, which is not surprising given his soft-spoken nature. Still, it was an accomplishment worthy of some bragging rights, particularly given his grinding schedule; Makovsky fought six times in eight months in 2010, winning all his fights.

With the championship, Makovsky put himself on the international MMA radar, though he hasn’t been a surprise to those in the know. Among those was his Philadelphia Fight Factory teammate and fellow Bellator champ Eddie Alvarez, who told MMA Fighting that he forecasted Makovsky’s success from the beginning.

“For people who don’t know about Zack, you’re going to find out,” Alvarez said. “You don’t need my words to tell you, you’re going to find out very soon. The first time I met him, before I ever won a title, I said to him, ‘You’re going to be a world champion.’ That was maybe 5-6 years ago. He just had certain qualities where you knew that he was not going to have it any other way. Some guys just have what it takes. It’s not the talent, speed, strength or whatever, it’s the attitude. And he had that attitude to be a world champion.”