REDDzone wrote:Anyone care about tomorrow night's card? Fedor vs Mitrione.
Thomson vs Pitbull is the fight to watch on that one imo (Thomson vs Chandler next with a win I'd hope). I'm kinda dreading Fedor vs Mitrione after the Maldonado fight.
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REDDzone wrote:Anyone care about tomorrow night's card? Fedor vs Mitrione.
Stephen Jackson wrote:Make sure u want these problems. Goggle me slime. Im in da streets.
Cammo101 wrote:Bern, watching you wash his hands of Bellator makes me sad. You were the first guy on that Bellator bandwagon, it's sad to see you jump off, even if I agree with most of what you sad.
Stephen Jackson wrote:Make sure u want these problems. Goggle me slime. Im in da streets.
Bernman wrote:Guess that JT-Chandler fight is never going to happen, unless Chandler loses the belt, and it's a feature. If they really wanted it, they just should have made it after that last win for JT. It's not like he needed to build up his name in Bellator.
That didn't look like so much of a product of a fighter declining. JT's reflexes and movement actually looked pretty sharp. Actually better than usual because he's had plenty of injuries. Patricky's timing, accuracy, and power were just exceptional. First he displayed it on the counter right to the temple, then the ko blow catching JT ducking down. He's evolved his counter game. Used to need to be the aggressor, really. He did get sort of lucky on the headbutt. Don't know how much that influenced the outcome.
I really don't think we need to see Patricky-Chandler 3 though. It's already been established Chandler is on another level. I'd rather see Patricio Pitbull-Chandler 1, especially after Patricio was cruising against Bendo before the injury. Piccolotti would be sort of the Cody Garbrandt-type pick. Might not be ready and doesn't have a great or long resume, but he's talented, exciting, and has a following. Primus is another guy who deserves to be in the conversation. If they want a name, they'd have to sign him, and I don't know who is out there.
Bernman wrote:Mitrione got sick, so they had to cancel the fight.
They will prove their next level incompetence/myopia if they don't just have Fedor fight Kongo, and give Oli his show money. Otherwise they're tanking the card for tv and alienating the in house audience.
cowboyronnie wrote:Not a chance Fedor would ever take a last minute opponent change. He's so calculated, his team so calculated.
Jasen777 wrote:cowboyronnie wrote:Not a chance Fedor would ever take a last minute opponent change. He's so calculated, his team so calculated.
True (though not necessarily a bad ting, IMO), but I don't think he was officially offered. There's a California rule about having to offer a period for refunds if the main event is cancelled so they didn't have much time to do anything.
cowboyronnie wrote:Can you elaborate?
There were some options available to fight Fedor Emelianenko at Bellator 172 on Saturday night in San Jose, Calif. Ultimately, Bellator could not make anything work in a small window of time and the card’s main event had to be scrapped.
On Saturday morning, Matt Mitrione, Emelianenko’s scheduled foe, had to go to the hospital due to a case of kidney stones. Things were up in the air until 3 p.m. local time, just minutes before fights started at the SAP Center. At that point, Coker said Bellator had no choice but to postpone Emelianenko’s promotional debut. If the planned main event was canceled, Bellator had to give fans who bought tickets time to get a refund, per California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) rule.
Sonnen was perhaps the most legitimate potential late-notice replacement, especially since he already has a CSAC license since he fought just last month, falling to Ortiz. But it just didn’t fit what Bellator wanted to do.
“We have other plans for Chael and it would have interfered in that,” Coker said at the post-fight press conference. “It just got complicated and then the timeframe. I feel like we ran out of time. We set a deadline internally. … We had an obligation to the consumer to let the know this fight was going to be off.”
Coker added that Emelianenko was not privy to any discussions about a potential new opponent like a Sonnen or an Ortiz. The MMA legend didn’t see too enthusiastic about that prospect anyway...
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REDDzone wrote:Lol Chael is always willing to take an *ss kicking for a check.
REDDzone wrote:Lol Chael is always willing to take an *ss kicking for a check.
Leandro Higo, the Legacy Fighting Alliance 135-pound champion, has signed an exclusive, multi-fight deal with the promotion, Bellator officials told MMA Fighting on Thursday.
Higo (17-2) became the RFA bantamweight champion last April with a first-round submission over Joey Miolla. When RFA and Legacy FC merged into LFA, the Brazilian added the LFA belt to his resume with a decision victory over Legacy FC champion Steven Peterson in January.
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