(Knockout of the Night: Saad Awad’s surgical strike on Guillaum DeLorenzi)
Bellator held their Season 8 lightweight tournament quarterfinals last night at the Soaring Eagle Casino in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, featuring a wild-and-wooly three-rounder between David “Caveman” Rickels and Lloyd Woodard, and a dominant promotional debut by hot 155-pound prospect Will Brooks. Our own Jason Moles was in attendance, and will be bringing us an interview with Bjorn Rebney later today. In the meantime, here are the videos of all six stoppages on the Bellator 87 card (courtesy of Troll Smasher), with complete results at the end of this post. Enjoy.
(Alexander “Tiger” Sarnavskiy’s rear-naked choke of Thiago Michel)
(Michigan’s own Jason Fischer finishes Sevak Magakian by RNC)
(Sam Quito taps Ben Lagman with a kneebar)
(Karl Etherington gets Jason Fish to verbally tap from strikes)
(Amir Killah sinks the first rear-naked choke of the night against John Schulz)
Main Card/Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinals
– David Rickels def. Lloyd Woodard via unanimous decision (29-28 x 3)
– Will Brooks def. Ricardo Tirloni via unanimous decision (30-27 x 3)
– Saad Awad def. Guillaume DeLorenzi via TKO, 0:31 of round 1
– Alexander Sarnavskiy def. Thiago Michel via submission (rear-naked choke), 3:43 of round 2
Preliminary Card
– Jason Fischer def. Sevak Magakian via submission (rear-naked choke), 3:37 of round 1
– Sam Quito def. Ben Lagman via submission (kneebar), 3:54 of round 2
– J.P. Reese def. David Shepherd via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27 x 2)
– Karl Etherington def. Jason Fish via verbal submission (strikes), 3:45 of round 1
– John Schulz def. Amir Killah via submission (rear-naked choke), 4:34 of round 1
– Tony Zelinski def. Nick Kirk via split-decision (29-28, 28-29, 30-27)
(David Rickels gif props: ZombieProphet/BloodyElbow)