Bellator 215 weigh-in results have been released as the fighters took the stage to get ready for battle inside of thecage under the promotion banner. Bellator 215 is set to take place on Friday, February 15, 2019 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The preliminary card will air online at 7:00 pm EST while […]
Bellator 215 weigh-in results have been released as the fighters took the stage to get ready for battle inside of thecage under the promotion banner.
Bellator 215 is set to take place on Friday, February 15, 2019 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The preliminary card will air online at 7:00 pm EST while the main card will air on the Paramount Network and DAZN at 9:00 PM EST.
Matt Mitrione vs. Sergei Kharitonov in a heavyweight bout will serve as the headliner. Logan Storley vs. Ion Pascu in a welterweight bout will serve as the co-headliner.
Rounding out the five bout main card is Eduardo Dantas vs. Toby Misech in a bantamweight bout, Michael Kimbel vs. Jonathan Douma in a bantamweight bout, and Austin Vanderford vs. Cody Jones in a welterweight bout.
Bellator officials held the weigh-ins for Bellator 215 on Thursday morning. Here are the weigh-in results:
MAIN CARD (Paramount, DAZN, 9 p.m. ET)
Matt Mitrione (258.25) vs. Sergei Kharitonov (265)
Ion Pascu (170.25) vs. Logan Storley (169.25)
Eduardo Dantas (136) vs. Toby Misech (135.5)
John Douma (136) vs. Mike Kimbel (136)
Cody Jones (174) vs. Austin Vanderford (174.25) – 175-pound catchweight
Michael “Venom” Page and Paul “Semtex” Daley will face each other in the main event of this weekend’s Bellator 216. The bout will also serve as a first round match-up in the welterweight Grand Prix. Not to mention Page vs. Daley marks the high-point of British MMA. Making an appearance on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, […]
Michael “Venom” Page and Paul “Semtex” Daley will face each other in the main event of this weekend’s Bellator 216.
The bout will also serve as a first round match-up in the welterweight Grand Prix. Not to mention Page vs. Daley marks the high-point of British MMA.
Making an appearance on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, Page recalled when Daley tried to start a riot at a Bellator event back in May of 2017.
”In my opinion, Paul’s a very childish person, a very impulsive person,” Page said. “Look at his history, he’s been kicked off the UFC before through that very same impulsive action. Especially when he loses, he’s a very sore loser. Even now my coach is like ‘After the fight, all goes to plan, you have to stay on guard.’ The fight’s not over because the bell’s done, he’s that kind of person that it may continue, it may spill over.”
Watch the Bellator 179 incident below.
Page also blamed Daley and his quick temper for the reasons as to why the fighters did not face off during their press conference appearances. “MVP” also put the blame squarely on Daley regarding how long it took to finally make this fight happen.
”After every interaction that we had like that, Bellator was like ‘Let’s make it happen,’” Page said. “And he’s ‘No no no, not yet.’ Okay. So then he has another fight that he wins and afterward he’s calling me out again. So we’re like okay, send the contract, let’s go. He says to Bellator ‘Nah nahnah, don’t want to do it yet.’ And there was just multiple multiple excuses as to why we shouldn’t.”
”Some people say it worked out for the best because it makes it build a bit longer and so on. I think it’s just as big. It would have been as big anyway. And honest opinion, because the tournament is involved, I think that had a massive part to play as to why it’s in America as opposed to the UK. If he had taken the fight when he was supposed to, especially after that nonsense, if he’d took the fight then, we’d be in the UK having this fight and it’d have been a massive fight.”
Page insists that he didn’t start this feud with Daley. However, he is more than happy to end it on Saturday night.
”I can be frustrating as a fighter, let alone as a person,” Page said. “I can frustrate people, I can get into people’s heads. And I feel like that’s what I was able to do then. He’s trying to backtrack now which I don’t understand. He’s trying to play it all calm, ‘There’s no real issues between us’, trying to play it all Mr. Nice Guy. I don’t get it but it comes across as fake because the second I say anything he bites, there’s an immediate explosion in him. And it is what it is, I think I’m living in his head right now and it’s gonna take its toll through this whole promotional period and then we get to the fight.”
Watch the entire Michael “Venom” Page interview below.
Ryan Bader is the first-ever “Champ Champ” in Bellator mixed martial arts (MMA) history. Bader, already the light heavyweight champion for the promotion, captured the company’s heavyweight title last month. “Darth” knocked out Fedor Emelianenko in the main event of Bellator 214 to make promotion history. Now, Bader is currently on a seven-fight win streak […]
Ryan Bader is the first-ever “Champ Champ” in Bellator mixed martial arts (MMA) history.
Bader, already the light heavyweight champion for the promotion, captured the company’s heavyweight title last month. “Darth” knocked out Fedor Emelianenko in the main event of Bellator 214 to make promotion history. Now, Bader is currently on a seven-fight win streak in his MMA career. Recently, Bader’s coach, Jair Lourenco, spoke to MMA Fighting to talk about his fighter’s recent successes.
“That’s the fight we wanted. That’s the fight everybody wanted,” Lourenco said. “It’s an old rivalry, and it would be the first champ-champ vs. champ-champ cross-promotion in MMA history. That only happens in boxing. That’s a fight I wanted to see.”
Lourenco believes Bader has a good shot at finishing “DC”, but he’s also more than capable of going five rounds with the former heavyweight champion as well:
“I believe that a five-round fight would be a great scenario for us,” Lourenco said. “Bader does great in five-round fights, but they both have heavy hands. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a war, but I believe Bader has a great chance of finishing him inside five rounds.
“Cormier is a great guy, much respect to him, but I see a good match-up for Bader. Cormier is an excellent wrestler with a good game on short range, the same game Bader does well. Cormier did more in pure wrestling, but Bader’s wrestling in great for MMA.”
Paul Daley claims that his fight with Michael “Venom” Page at Bellator 216 does “nothing” for him. The pair will face off in the first round of Bellator’s welterweight tournament. Whoever is crowned the winner will also receive $1 million. Speaking at the Bellator 216 press conference, Daley said a fight with Page does nothing […]
Paul Daley claims that his fight with Michael “Venom” Page at Bellator 216 does “nothing” for him.
The pair will face off in the first round of Bellator’s welterweight tournament. Whoever is crowned the winner will also receive $1 million. Speaking at the Bellator 216 press conference, Daley said a fight with Page does nothing for him, except getting him one step closer to the grand prize (via MMA Fighting):
“It does nothing for me, really,” Daley said. “It just puts me a step closer to the million dollars, it dispels the illusion a bit, but other than that it really does nothing.”
Daley has lost three of his last five fights inside the cage. His last appearance was a unanimous decision loss to Jon Fitch at Bellator 199 in May. As for “MVP”, he’s currently undefeated in his mixed martial arts (MMA) career. Of his 13 career wins, Page has finished 11 of them.
Bellator 214 this past weekend (Sat. January 26, 2019) was the mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion’s most successful event in a year. The show featured the finals of Bellator’s Heavyweight Grand Prix Tournament. In the main event, light heavyweight champion Ryan Bader defeated Fedor Emelianenko via first-round knockout. With the victory, Bader is Bellator’s first-ever […]
Bellator 214 this past weekend (Sat. January 26, 2019) was the mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion’s most successful event in a year.
The show featured the finals of Bellator’s Heavyweight Grand Prix Tournament. In the main event, light heavyweight champion Ryan Bader defeated Fedor Emelianenko via first-round knockout. With the victory, Bader is Bellator’s first-ever “champ champ.” Also, Aaron Pico co-main evented the card in his second-ever MMA loss.
Former WWE star Jack Swagger (real name Jake Hager) made his MMA debut as well. Dave Meltzer of MMA Fighting is reporting that the show as a whole drew an average of 697,000 viewers. That’s Bellator’s best since January 20th last year, which was headlined by Chael Sonnen vs. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.
The main event between Bader and Fedor garnered 1.2 million viewers. Henry Corrales’ knockout victory over Pico saw 808,000 viewers. And of course, Swagger’s MMA debut was seen by 809,000. Bellator 214 was up against some tough competition Saturday night, namely the Golden State Warriors vs. Boston Celtics NBA game on ABC. The game was seen by a total of 4,290,000.
Keith Thurman vs. Josesito Lopez on FOX’s Premier Boxing had 1,980,000 viewers. The NHL All-Star Game on NBC carried 1,778,000 viewers.
Three years ago, heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko had just lost to Ryan Bader via TKO in the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix Final. Despite having won two of his last three fights coming into that bout, a former foe of Fedor, Dan Henderson, considered the possibility that the then 42-year-old Emelanenko was, as he put it, […]
Three years ago, heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko had just lost to Ryan Bader via TKO in the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix Final. Despite having won two of his last three fights coming into that bout, a former foe of Fedor, Dan Henderson, considered the possibility that the then 42-year-old Emelanenko was, as he put it, “used up.”
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Headline: Dan Henderson Believes Fedor May Be All Used up After Bellator 214 Loss
Author: Andrew Ravens
MMA Legend Dan Henderson has sounded off the state of Fedor Emelianenko’s career after suffering his most recent loss.
This past Saturday night in the headliner of Bellator 214 at The Forum in Inglewood, California on the Paramount Network, Ryan Bader finished Fedor Emelianenko to win the vacant Bellator heavyweight title.
Emelianenko is a historic figure in the history of the MMA game and no doubt an MMA Legend. In the eyes of Henderson, he praised Bader for a job well done but also thinks that Fedor’s chin is suspect and could be all used up.
“Damn good job from Bader, for sure. Fedor’s had kind of a suspect chin,” Henderson told Fight Hub TV (H/T to MMAMania). “He’s still super dangerous. I figured [Bader] would win but not quite in that manner. It seems like [Fedor] could be all used up, unfortunately, I would love to see him out there more, but.”
The MMA legend finished former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir in the main event of the Bellator 198 event at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois via strikes in the first round in a Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix quarterfinal bout. His next fight saw him beat Chael Sonnen on at Bellator 208 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York by first-round TKO.