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The latest Bellator Featherweight Tournament began at Bellator 46 with all four quarterfinal matchups. The eventual tournament champion will meet the winner of a July fight between Bellator Featherweight Champion Joe Warren and Patricio Freire.In an ex…
The latest Bellator Featherweight Tournament began at Bellator 46 with all four quarterfinal matchups. The eventual tournament champion will meet the winner of a July fight between Bellator Featherweight Champion Joe Warren and Patricio Freire.
In an exciting night of fights, four competitors moved on to the tournament semifinals. Let’s take some time to look at the four semifinalists.
Filed under: Bellator, NewsMTV2 viewers were treated to an excellent mixed martial arts event on Saturday night, as Bellator 46 yielded four good fights — and the promise of even better things to come.
The winners — Pat Curran, Marlon Sandro, Nazare…
MTV2 viewers were treated to an excellent mixed martial arts event on Saturday night, as Bellator 46 yielded four good fights — and the promise of even better things to come.
The winners — Pat Curran, Marlon Sandro, Nazareno Malegarie and Ronnie Mann — all looked very good in victory and advanced to the second round of Bellator’s eight-man featherweight tournament. No matter how the four are paired in the tournament semifinals, they’re virtually guaranteed to be a couple of outstanding fights.
The semifinals will take place at Bellator 47 on July 23, along with a Bellator featherweight title fight between Joe Warren and Patricio “Pitbull” Freire, and that card is shaping up to be a great showcase of Bellator’s solid featherweight division.
Curran earned his victory quickly, forcing Luis Palomino to tap out to a Peruvian necktie at 3:49 of the first round. That submission wasn’t what anyone was expecting from Curran, who previously won a Bellator lightweight tournament, but he said afterward that the fight played out just how he wanted.
“I rocked him with a right hand, he went to the ground, he felt a little weak, he was just getting his mind back together,” Curran said. “I just went for it — I practice it in the gym all the time.”
Sandro took a split decision victory after an entertaining 15 minutes in the cage with Genair da Silva. Sandro appeared poised to finish da Silva in the first round, first by knocking him down with a devastating punch, and then by attempting a guillotine choke. But da Silva managed to pull out of the guillotine, shake off the cobwebs and keep fighting. Sandro never came close to finishing da Silva after the first round, but he did control the fight, and it was surprising that one judge scored it for da Silva, 29-28. The other judges gave the fight to Sandro, 30-27 and 29-28, and he looked solid in his North American debut.
Malegarie displayed some absolutely beautiful Brazilian jiu jitsu in winning a third-round submission against Jacob DeVree. Malegarie had what appeared to be a tight guillotine choke in the opening moments of the first round, but DeVree maintained his poise and broke free. DeVree also broke free of a Malegarie heel hook, and he survived the rest of the first round thanks in part to a questionable stand-up by referee Troy Waugh. But Malegarie was absolutely relentless on the ground, controlling DeVree there for almost the entire second round and then pulling off a textbook-perfect guillotine choke early in the third round, finally forcing DeVree to tap. Malegarie is now 20-1 in his MMA career.
Mann unleashed an explosive assault on Adam Schindler in winning by first-round knockout, knocking Schindler down with a quick right uppercut and a hard left hook and finishing him with a few more unanswered punches to the face on the ground before the referee finally stopped it. It was a brilliant showing by Mann, who improved his professional MMA record to 20-2-1. If Mann, who’s known primarily as a submission specialist, can show off that kind of striking consistently, he’s going to be a force in this tournament.
MMA Atheltics‘ latest video features an interview with Bellator Ring Girl, Jade Bryce. We learn the blonde bombshell is not promiscuous, is charitable, and visits villages in Africa. In other words, she’s too good for.
MMA Atheltics‘ latest video features an interview with Bellator Ring Girl, Jade Bryce. We learn the blonde bombshell is not promiscuous, is charitable, and visits villages in Africa. In other words, she’s too good for you. Also, she doesn’t drink so there’s no possibility of getting her drunk. But watch the video to find out her turn ons, even though you have zero chance.
Effective Fight Picture Tip #28: A little blood goes a long way.
Remember a few weeks ago when we told you that Bellator was holding open tryouts in Florida, and pro fighters could go possibly snag a slot on a Bellator card? No? Well, we did. We left it right here on the front page for you, and we don’t want to hear any more about it.
As Bellator’s own website points out, many of their tournament fighters have been guys from tough local scenes that put together a couple of wins and got promoted to the brackets: Kenny Foster, Tyler Stinson, Anthony Lapsley, and Jose Vega among them.
Well, the open tryouts went down June 18th, just like we told you, and MMAJunkie reports that there was one winner out of a field of sixty. While we cannot confirm that Florida ATT prospect Ailton Barbosa fought and defeated 59 men in open combat, we kind of want to believe it. Barbosa is a grappling ace, judging by all of his Facebook pictures of him in his pajamas, so we assume that he subbed most of them, probably with sweet flying guillotines and cool stuff like that.
We’re also told that he went on to kill a raging bull barehanded with a single strike, then flew away under his own power. That’s right, people: Ailton Barbosa has the deadly knowledge of Dim Mak. And he can fly.
Our condolences to the family of whoever he fights at Bellator 50 in September.
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Effective Fight Picture Tip #28: A little blood goes a long way.
Remember a few weeks ago when we told you that Bellator was holding open tryouts in Florida, and pro fighters could go possibly snag a slot on a Bellator card? No? Well, we did. We left it right here on the front page for you, and we don’t want to hear any more about it.
As Bellator’s own website points out, many of their tournament fighters have been guys from tough local scenes that put together a couple of wins and got promoted to the brackets: Kenny Foster, Tyler Stinson, Anthony Lapsley, and Jose Vega among them.
Well, the open tryouts went down June 18th, just like we told you, and MMAJunkie reports that there was one winner out of a field of sixty. While we cannot confirm that Florida ATT prospect Ailton Barbosa fought and defeated 59 men in open combat, we kind of want to believe it. Barbosa is a grappling ace, judging by all of his Facebook pictures of him in his pajamas, so we assume that he subbed most of them, probably with sweet flying guillotines and cool stuff like that.
We’re also told that he went on to kill a raging bull barehanded with a single strike, then flew away under his own power. That’s right, people: Ailton Barbosa has the deadly knowledge of Dim Mak. And he can fly.
Our condolences to the family of whoever he fights at Bellator 50 in September.
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Filed under: BellatorAs I look ahead to the upcoming three-event Bellator Fighting Championships summer series, it’s with a mixture of excitement and disappointment.
Excitement because the fights Bellator has booked in its featherweight division are g…
Filed under: Bellator
As I look ahead to the upcoming three-event Bellator Fighting Championships summer series, it’s with a mixture of excitement and disappointment.
Excitement because the fights Bellator has booked in its featherweight division are guaranteed to be spectacular. And disappointment because I know hardly anyone is going to watch.
The Bellator summer series kicks off on Saturday, June 25 with four first-round fights in an eight-man featherweight tournament, and the fights look like a lot of fun. Particularly exciting is the North American debut of Marlon Sandro, the former Sengoku featherweight champion who’s among the sport’s truly elite featherweights, as well as being one of the most exciting fighters in the world in any weight class.
So why won’t anyone notice?
Saturday, June 25, is smack dab in the middle of the busiest time we’ve had all year in MMA. It’s one day before a UFC card on Versus and one day after a Strikeforce event on Showtime. It’s one week after a huge Strikeforce event and one week before UFC 132. Even hard-core MMA fans are starting to overdose on MMA right about now, and if they’re going to skip an event, it’s not going to be a Strikeforce or UFC show. It’s going to be Bellator.
Give Bellator all the credit in the world for the way they’ve acquired talent, put together exciting fights, and consistently delivered tournaments that reach their conclusions as scheduled — never an easy task in MMA. But no matter how good Bellator’s product, it’s really, really hard to gain traction in MMA if you’re outside Zuffa. The UFC is the top dog in MMA by such a large margin that it’s easy to forget there are any other dogs — and especially easy to forget Bellator when it’s sandwiched between Strikeforce and UFC events, and on a network (MTV2) that most MMA fans can’t find without spending a few minutes searching through their channel guide.
If you’re one of the truly hard-core MMA fans — and there’s a good chance that you are, if you’re reading this — you’ll seek out Bellator. I know I will. But I also know I’m in a tiny minority of something around one-tenth of 1 percent of the TV viewing public. If 300,000 people watch Saturday night’s Bellator card, that would represent a success by Bellator’s standards, but it would also represent less than 0.1% of the American population. MMA promotions have gone bankrupt while drawing significantly larger audiences than Bellator draws.
For a man who had more submission victories than knockout victories, Christian M’Pumbu became a force at Bellator 42 against Tim Carpenter. M’Pumbu entered the fight coming off of a third-round knockout win in the quarterfinals of Bellator&…
For a man who had more submission victories than knockout victories, Christian M’Pumbu became a force at Bellator 42 against Tim Carpenter.
M’Pumbu entered the fight coming off of a third-round knockout win in the quarterfinals of Bellator’s first ever light heavyweight tournament against Chris Davis.
Carpenter, on the other hand, entered coming off of a split decision victory over Daniel Gracie and was a perfect 7-0.
Now that the scene is set, enter this semifinal matchup at Bellator 42. M’Pumbu threw one nice left hand that landed.
Then, once again, M’Pumbu went to his left hand, which helped set up the devastating right hand that stunned Carpenter. M’Pumbu threw one more right hand that dropped Carpenter and sent M’Pumbu into the finals of the inaugural Bellator light heavyweight tournament.
After this fight Tim Carpenter has yet to have an opponent, coming off of the first loss in his professional MMA career.
M’Pumbu would go on and fight Richard Hale at Bellator 45, and yet again notched another knockout win in the third round to become Bellator’s first ever light heavyweight champion.
M’Pumbu now holds seven career victories by knockout, with three of those coming in each round of the Bellator light heavyweight tournament.
M’Pumbu is currently 18-3-1 with that fight against Hale coming last month.
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