Pat Curran definitively dethroned now former Bellator featherweight champion Joe Warren at Bellator 60 Friday night, winning in devastating knockout fashion. So devastating, in fact, that Bellator decided to edit the footage. Courtesy of the…
Pat Curran definitively dethroned now former Bellator featherweight champion Joe Warren at Bellator 60 Friday night, winning in devastating knockout fashion. So devastating, in fact, that Bellator decided to edit the footage. Courtesy of the fine folks over at MMA Mania, here is what an unedited version of the finishing sequence looked like. After one glance […]
Hector Lombard has been on a tear in Bellator Fighting Championships ever since he joined the organization. In the almost three years that Lombard has fought for Bellator, he has racked up a perfect 8-0 record with seven knockouts while capturing the c…
Hector Lombard has been on a tear in Bellator Fighting Championships ever since he joined the organization. In the almost three years that Lombard has fought for Bellator, he has racked up a perfect 8-0 record with seven knockouts while capturing the company’s middleweight world title. In fact Lombard has not lost since November 5, […]
From The Venue at Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, IN, Bellator 60 is now underway. Bleacher Report will provide live results below and play-by-play coverage on the following pages of this slideshow. In addition to a featherweight title fight between…
From The Venue at Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, IN, Bellator 60 is now underway. Bleacher Report will provide live results below and play-by-play coverage on the following pages of this slideshow. In addition to a featherweight title fight between elite 145-pound fighters Joe Warren and Pat Curran, Bellator 60 features the first round of a […]
Tonight, live from Hammond, Indiana, Bellator kicks off their sixth season in exciting fashion.Headlining the card is an intriguing featherweight championship bout between kingpin Joe Warren and top contender Pat Curran. Curran was the winner of the su…
Tonight, live from Hammond, Indiana, Bellator kicks off their sixth season in exciting fashion.
Headlining the card is an intriguing featherweight championship bout between kingpin Joe Warren and top contender Pat Curran. Curran was the winner of the summer series featherweight tournament to earn this opportunity, and he’ll look to make the best of it. Warren returns after an unsuccessful stint in pursuit of bantamweight gold.
Rounding off the main card is the quarterfinals of the season six featherweight tournament. Matchups include Marlon Sandro vs. Roberto Vargas; Ronnie Mann vs. Mike Corey; Daniel Straus vs. Jeremy Spoon; and Alexandre Bezerra vs. late replacement Kenny Foster, who replaces Genair da Silva (missed weight yesterday).
Updates will begin live at the beginning of the fights!
SPIKE is really rubbing in how much more they like their new wife’s kids than they do the ones they helped make. It must be hard for the UFC to see them spending so much time with Bellator buying them ice cream and cotton candy, when they don’t even call them on their birthday or pay any child support.
They rubbed salt into the fresh wound this week when they announced their latest family outing: a new Bellator video game developed by their newly-formed SPIKE Games family.
Kung-Fu Games, the group responsible for creating the somewhat underwhelming Supremacy MMA title, are helping with the project. They also worked on on the new Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat and Ugly Americans games released by 345 Games — the Viacom-owned collective made up of Spike Games and Comedy Central Games.
According to the release, the game, dubbed Bellator: Onslaught, should be out this summer.
Check out a sneak peek of the game after the jump.
SPIKE is really rubbing in how much more they like their new wife’s kids than they do the ones they helped make. It must be hard for the UFC to see them spending so much time with Bellator buying them ice cream and cotton candy, when they don’t even call them on their birthday or pay any child support.
They rubbed salt into the fresh wound this week when they announced their latest family outing: a new Bellator video game developed by their newly-formed SPIKE Games family.
Kung-Fu Games, the group responsible for creating the somewhat underwhelming Supremacy MMA title, are helping with the project. They also worked on on the new Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat and Ugly Americans games released by 345 Games — the Viacom-owned collective made up of Spike Games and Comedy Central Games.
According to the release, the game, dubbed Bellator: Onslaught, should be out this summer.
Bellator Fighting Championships pride themselves on their quote, “Where title shots are earned.” I love this concept, as sometimes I believe undeserving fighters get title shots in front of guys who deserve it more.But the problem that Bellator runs in…
Bellator Fighting Championships pride themselves on their quote, “Where title shots are earned.” I love this concept, as sometimes I believe undeserving fighters get title shots in front of guys who deserve it more.
But the problem that Bellator runs into with their tournament system to find a No. 1 contender is that the champion often does not fight nearly as much as he should. To keep the champions active, Bellator has “non-title superfights,” which I believe is a bad thing for several reasons.
First, let’s examine this season’s non-title superfights that have already been scheduled. Luckily, champions Zach Makovsky, Joe Warren and Ben Askren all have title matches this season thus far, which is against men who earned title shots.
Heavyweight champion Cole Konrad is still on the shelf, though, because of a “no contest” in the heavyweight tournament final last season, which will be settled not far from now. There is a chance he will defend his title this season.
The problem, though, is that lightweight champion Michael Chandler is set to have his first fight since winning the title in a non-title bout with Akihiro Gono, which troubles me. Chandler, although there is now lightweight tournament champion lined up for him to fight, should be defending his title, like all champions.
Last season, Zach Makovsky, Christian M’Pumbu and Hector Lombard all participated in non-title bouts. Although Makovsky and Lombard came out victorious, M’Pumbu was defeated, but he was still a champion.
This takes away prestige from the titles. Having non-title fights with champions is a bad thing. I know Bellator wants to have their fighters earn title shots, but in the meanwhile, they should present legitimate challengers to the belts in actual championship matches. If they have to do this by having non-tournament No. 1 contenders matches, then they need to do it.
If they want their champions to be legitimate, they need to keep them active and put their titles on the line in the process. Bellator is a great fighting company that puts on awesome fights, but their lack of activity and title fights hurts them.
I am sure not all of the fights are announced for this season yet, so we will see if more superfights or title fights happen. But seeing as there was no light heavyweight tournament or lightweight tournament last season, there will probably not be a title fight in those weight divisions. Although featherweight did not have a tournament in season five, they were lucky enough to have a log jam with injuries and the summer series tournament that has presented a title fight on the first card of the season.
There is my solution. Have fighters with a reputable name and a good record square off in a top contenders match to see who fights the champion. It is only a good thing that the champion gets championship fighting experience and faces tough competition.
Bellator Fighting Championships pride themselves on their quote, “Where title shots are earned.” I love this concept, as sometimes I believe undeserving fighters get title shots in front of guys who deserve it more.