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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 on Monday announced a May 14 qualifier for its Season 5 welterweight tournament, which will take place this fall.
Former Bellator welterweight champion Lyman Good and Dan Hornbuckle will meet at Bellator 44, with the winner getting a spot in the tournament.
Good (11-2) won the welterweight title in Bellator’s first season two years ago. But after a layoff of 16 months, he lost the belt to Ben Askren in his first defense. Earlier this month, after a win over Chris Lozano in the Season 4 welterweight tourney quarterfinals, Good lost a split decision to Rick Hawn in the semifinals.
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,…
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.
One prize isn’t enough. The Greco-Roman wrestler turned Bellator featherweight champion Joe Warren wants more even more gold.
“I’m still young, I’m making a big push for it,” Warren said on the latest MMA Hour. “2012, I’d like to have both Bellator belts and a Gold medal at the Olympics.”
Warren is looking to compete for Bellator five times this year, while continuing to prepare himself to wrestle in the 2012 Olympics in London.
Filed under: UFC, WEC, Strikeforce, Bellator, Rankings, LightweightsGilbert Melendez thinks he’s the best lightweight in mixed martial arts. Is he right? I don’t think so, not yet. But I sure would love to find out.
Gilbert Melendez thinks he’s the best lightweight in mixed martial arts. Is he right? I don’t think so, not yet. But I sure would love to find out.
The best thing about the UFC buying Strikeforce is that it means we’ll eventually see the champions of the respective promotions fighting each other. For now the mantra is “business as usual,” but we all know it’s just a matter of time before we see the best of Strikeforce inside the Octagon. And there might not be a better fight out there than Melendez taking on the top of the UFC lightweight division.
It will probably be 2012 before we get to see that: UFC lightweight champ Frankie Edgar has to fight Gray Maynard in May, and the winner of that fight is expected to fight the winner of the June Anthony Pettis-Clay Guida bout after that. But it sure would be fun to see Melendez retiring the Strikeforce belt to his trophy case and fighting for the UFC gold.
Find out where I think Melendez stacks up in the lightweight division below.
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…
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.