MMA News’ Top 10 Finishes Of The Week (1/29-2/4)

Welcome to this week’s edition of MMA News’ Top 10 Finishes of the week! Every week there’s highlight-reel finishes all across the MMA world, and we’ve found some of the absolute best ones to showcase. The majority of January seemed to provide a fairly…

Welcome to this week’s edition of MMA News’ Top 10 Finishes of the week! Every week there’s highlight-reel finishes all across the MMA world, and we’ve found some of the absolute best ones to showcase. The majority of January seemed to provide a fairly slow start to the year’s MMA calendar, but things are definitely…

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Bellator 290: Bader vs. Emelianenko 2 Live Results & Highlights

Bellator 290: Bader vs. Emelianenko 2 will take place this Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Kia Forum Arena in Inglewood, California. It will be Bellator’s first event to be aired on CBS, and MMA News has the official results and highlights here! This Sa…

Bellator 290: Bader vs. Emelianenko 2 will take place this Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Kia Forum Arena in Inglewood, California. It will be Bellator’s first event to be aired on CBS, and MMA News has the official results and highlights here! This Saturday will be the last fight of Emelianenko’s MMA career when he…

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Scott Coker Prefers To See Lorenz Larkin Fight Douglas Lima Over Michael Page

Bellator president Scott Coker believes Lorenz Larkin is next in line for Douglas Lima. Larkin made it four wins in a row following his unanimous decision win over Keita Nakamura at Bellator Japan on Saturday. Michael Page, meanwhile, also competed on the card as he made it three wins in a row following his knockout […]

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Bellator president Scott Coker believes Lorenz Larkin is next in line for Douglas Lima.

Larkin made it four wins in a row following his unanimous decision win over Keita Nakamura at Bellator Japan on Saturday. Michael Page, meanwhile, also competed on the card as he made it three wins in a row following his knockout of Shinsho Anzai.

Both fighters have campaigned to get the next welterweight title shot at Lima but it’s Larkin who will probably win the race according to Coker:

“To me, I think the fight that we would like to see is Lorenz fight Lima, because he hasn’t fought him before,” Coker said (via MMA Junkie). “But I’d also like to see Lorenz fight ‘MVP,’ too. So, we’ll see. We’re going to mix it up and have some fun with that weight class.”

Lima notably handed Page his first-ever career loss when he knocked him out en route to regaining the Bellator welterweight title. The Brazilian also believes “MVP” needs a step up in competition before thinking of a rematch.

As for Larkin, he is yet to face Lima and although he notably missed weight against Nakamura, Coker is willing to give him a pass:

“We can look past that,” Coker added. “He came a long way and it’s not an easy task. I think that the flight, the trip, it’s just a different environment. I think in the timeframe that was different, that had a lot to do with it.

“The guy has fought – I don’t know his record offhand – but I think in 24 fights he has never missed weight. So we’ve got to give him a pass for that one.”

Do you think Larkin deserves the next shot?

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Bellator 237 Highlights: Lorenz Larkin Defeats Keita Nakamura

Lorenz Larkin turned in a one-sided performance against a game Keita Nakamura. Larkin and Nakamura traded shots for three rounds at Bellator 237 earlier tonight (Dec. 28). While Nakamura proved to be tough, Larkin was simply too much. He didn’t a…

Lorenz Larkin turned in a one-sided performance against a game Keita Nakamura. Larkin and Nakamura traded shots for three rounds at Bellator 237 earlier tonight (Dec. 28). While Nakamura proved to be tough, Larkin was simply too much. He didn’t allow Nakamura to take the fight to the ground and utilized his striking to pick […]

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Scott Coker: Lorenz Larkin ‘Probably’ Next For Douglas Lima

New Bellator welterweight champion Douglas Lima’s first title defense looks set to be against Lorenz Larkin. Lima regained the welterweight title after outpointing Rory MacDonald in the main event of Bellator 232 last night. As a result, he became a three-time champion and also won the million dollar prize from the welterweight grand prix. And […]

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New Bellator welterweight champion Douglas Lima’s first title defense looks set to be against Lorenz Larkin.

Lima regained the welterweight title after outpointing Rory MacDonald in the main event of Bellator 232 last night. As a result, he became a three-time champion and also won the million dollar prize from the welterweight grand prix.

And despite what would seem to be the ideal choice in making a trilogy fight between Lima and MacDonald, Bellator president Scott Coker believes Larkin will be next in line:

“We’re going to be taking Larkin to Japan to fight on the 29th on our show,” Coker said in the Bellator 232 post-fight press conference (via BJ Penn). “They’re still working out the opponent but he will be fighting and representing Bellator against Rizin. So he’ll be busy there.

“I think Douglas Lima would probably like to take a couple of months off and then we’ll figure it out. But I think Larkin, unless he loses in Japan, he’s probably the No. 1 guy in that slot.”

Larkin faced Lima for the welterweight title back in 2017 but would lose a unanimous decision. Since then, “The Monsoon” would go 3-1 with his most recent victory coming against former champion Andrey Koreshkov earlier this month.

Provided he wins his next outing, he looks set to get another chance at defeating Lima and becoming a world champion.

Do you think Larkin should get the next shot at Lima?

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Bellator 229 Weigh-In Results & Video

Bellator 229 will go down live on DAZN and the Paramount Network from The Pechanga Casino in Temecula, California tomorrow night (Fri. October 4, 2019). In the main event of the night, a welterweight clash will take place between Andrey Koreshkov and Lorenz Larkin. Before that, the fighters involved in tomorrow’s card stepped on the scale […]

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Bellator 229 will go down live on DAZN and the Paramount Network from The Pechanga Casino in Temecula, California tomorrow night (Fri. October 4, 2019).

In the main event of the night, a welterweight clash will take place between Andrey Koreshkov and Lorenz Larkin. Before that, the fighters involved in tomorrow’s card stepped on the scale to weigh-in today You can check out the full Bellator 229 weigh-in results and video below.

Bellator 229 Weigh-In Results

Preliminary Card (LowKickMMA at 8 p.m. ET)

  • Adel Altamimi (145.9) vs. Salim Mukhidinov (145.4)
  • Anatoly Tokov (184.3) vs. Hracho Darpinyan (185.6)

Main Card (Paramount/DAZN at 9 p.m. ET)

  • Andrey Koreshkov (170.8) vs. Lorenz Larkin (170.9)
  • Saad Awad (155.3) vs. Goiti Yamauchi (155.3)
  • Keri Taylor Melendez (117.9) vs. Mandy Polk (117.4) (118-pound catchweight)
  • Joe Schilling (186) vs. Tony Johnson (185.1)

Postliminary card

  • Derek Anderson (169.6) vs. Guilherme “Bomba” (170.4)
  • Joey Davis (169.3) vs. Jeff Peterson (169.2)
  • Johnny Eblen (185.9) vs. Mauricio Alonso (184.6)
  • Vladimir Tokov (155.1) vs. Brandon Hastings (154)
  • Jordan Newman (185.2) vs. Riley Miller (184.8)
  • Sunni Imhotep (155.3) vs. Kelvin Gentapanan (155.8)
  • Jay-Jay Wilson (145.7) vs. Jorge Juarez (144.2)

Who are you picking to win the main event between Larkin and Koreshkov?

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