Bellator MMA Season 10

Bellator 110: Rampage vs. M'Pumbu
Friday, February 28, 2014
From the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut
Live on SPIKE TV at 9 PM ET / 6 PM

Main Event:

Light Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal: Rampage Jackson vs. Christian M'Pumbu

Main Card Bouts:

Light Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal: King Mo vs. Mikhail Zayats

Featherweight Tournament Opening Round: Diego Nunes vs. Matt Bessette

Featherweight Tournament Opening Round: Mike Richman vs. Des Green

Preliminary Bouts: (Live on SPIKE.com at 6:30 PM ET / 3:30 PM PT)

Featherweight Tournament Opening Round: Goiti Yamauchi vs. Will Martinez

Featherweight Tournament Opening Round: Daniel Weichel vs. Scott Cleve

Light Heavyweight Bout: Atanas Djambazov vs. Egidijus Valavicius

Featherweight Bout: Saul Almeida vs. Andrew Fisher

Lightweight Bout: Andrew Calandrelli vs. Ryan Quinn

Heavyweight Bout: Josh Diekmann vs. Manny Lara

Bantamweight Bout: Rico DiSciullo vs. Marvin Maldonado

Light Heavyweight Bout: David Roberts vs. Patrick Schultz

Both FW fights that aired on TV were kinda meh, but at least everybody who advanced in the tourney was fresh blood and will produce a champion who hasn't been in the tourney before.

King Mo looked so so.

Rampage looked good again in taking out Christian in the 1st rd.

Most entertaining aspect was the post fight WWE pull apart between Rampage and King Mo at the end.

Bellator 111: Dantas vs. Leone
Friday, March 7, 2014
From the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma
Live on SPIKE TV at 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT

Main Event:

Bellator Bantamweight Championship: Eduardo Dantas (C) vs. Anthony Leone

Main Card Bouts:

Heavyweight Tournament Opening Round: Ryan Martinez vs. Lavar Johnson

Heavyweight Tournament Opening Round: Peter Graham vs. Mighty Mo

Heavyweight Tournament Opening Round: Alexander Volkov vs. Mark Holata

Preliminary Bouts: (Live on SPIKE.com at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT)

Heavyweight Tournament Opening Round: Blagoi Ivanov vs. Rich Hale

Middleweight Bout: Cortez Coleman vs. Daniel Miller

Heavyweight Bout: Javy Ayala vs. Eric Prindle

Catchweight Bout (190 lbs): Matt Jones vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan

Lightweight Bout: Chris Jones vs. Brent Primus

Featherweight Bout: Stephen Banaszak vs. Treston Thomison

Bantamweight Bout: Chris Gutierrez vs. Justin McNally

The way Dantas stepped back over Leone and sunk in the RNC so quick was beautiful to watch. I've never seen the choke hit from that position before. He really made Leonne pay for going for the takedown. Next up is Joe Waren for him, looks like Silva might still be hurt. I expect him to beat Warren too.

This Bellator card was much better than Week 1. Aside from the impressive Rampage KO, and the fun little pull-apart between the apparently still contracted TNA part-timers, the main card wasn't too great of a show.

Dantas topped the card with an incredible submission win. Leone put up a very solid effort, especially since he came into this fight as a replacement after tourney winner Rafael Silva was injured (Leone was runner up in the Summer Series). Since Silva's injured, it only makes sense that Bellator goes forward with Dantas vs. Joe Warren right away, as they will be fighting May 2.

The Heavyweight tournament had some fight moments. Lavar Johnson had a great comeback KO after Ryan Martinez was dominating most of the fight beforehand.

Mighty Mo continues his unlikely career resurgence with a submission win of all things against Peter Graham.

Former champ Alexander Volkov kicked off the main card with a vicious TKO win. Blagoi Ivanov also had a rather dominant win over a very resilient Rich Hale on the prelims in the other HW tourney bout.

Bellator 112: Straus vs. Curran III
Friday, March 14, 2014
From the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana
Live on SPIKE TV at 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT

Main Event:

Bellator Featherweight Championship: Daniel Straus (C) vs. Pat Curran

Main Card Bouts:

Welterweight Tournament Opening Round: Andrey Koreshkov vs. Nah-Shon Burrell

Welterweight Tournament Opening Round: Cristiano Souza vs. Sam Oropeza

Welterweight Tournament Opening Round: Adam McDonough vs. Jesse Juarez

Preliminary Bouts: (Live on SPIKE.com at 6:45 PM ET / 3:45 PM PT)

Welterweight Tournament Opening Round: Paul Bradley vs. Nathan Coy

Welterweight Bout: AJ Matthews vs. Belal Muhammad

Bantamweight Bout: Diego Marlon vs. Lloyd Carter

Featherweight Bout: Darrion Caldwell vs. Lance Surma

Welterweight Bout: Derek Loffer vs. Bobby Reardanz

Catchweight Bout (215 lbs): Jason Guida vs. Anthony Gomez

Heavyweight Bout: Erick Correa vs. Daniel James

For the WW fights that aired on TV, both Oropeza and Koreshkov had impressive stoppages to advance in the tourney.

Great title fight between Curran and Strauss, much more entertaining than their 1st title fight. I thought Strauss was on his way to winning a decision, until Curran stepped it up in the last rd and secured the choke. It looked like Strauss was okay fighting it, until he wasn't. Props to Curran for being aggressive and going for the finish when he needed it. Pitbull will face Curran next, but I heard Bjorn say that Strauss will face the winner of that fight.

Bellator 113: Vegh vs. Newton
Friday, March 21, 2014
From the Kansas Star Center in Wichita, Kansas
Live on SPIKE TV at 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT

Main Event:

Undisputed Bellator Light Heavyweight Championship: Attila Vegh (C) vs. Emanuel Newton (IC)

Main Card Bouts:

Lightweight Tournament Opening Round: David Rickels vs. Patricky Pitbull

Lightweight Tournament Opening Round: Marcin Held vs. Rodrigo Cavalheiro

Lightweight Tournament Opening Round: Tim Welch vs. Derek Campos

Preliminary Bouts: (Live on SPIKE.com at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT)

Lightweight Tournament Opening Round: Brandon Girtz vs. Derek Anderson

Lightweight Bout: Bobby Cooper vs. Marcio Navarro

Lightweight Bout: Donnie Bell vs. Eric Wisely

Bantamweight Bout: Taurean Bogguess vs. L.C. Davis

Heavyweight Bout: Daniel Gallemore vs. Maurice Jackson

Lightweight Bout: Cody Carrillo vs. Israel Giron

The title fight between Newton and Veigh wasn't good, Newton did enough with his activity to win but you have to think Bellator is hoping Rampage can become their new LHW champ.

Some nice KO's in the LW tourney with Derek Anderson landing a vicious knee to advance and Pitbull rebounding from recent losses to deliver a devastating KO to Caveman Rickels.

Marcin Held looked good again in collecting another leg for his trophy case.

Bellator 114: Shlemenko vs. Ward
Friday, March 28, 2014
From the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah
Live on SPIKE TV at 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT

Main Event:

Bellator Middleweight Championship: Alexander Shlemenko (C) vs. Brennan Ward

Main Card Bouts:

Featherweight Tournament Semifinal: Des Green vs. Will Martinez

Featherweight Tournament Semifinal: Daniel Weichel vs. Matt Bessette

Middleweight Tournament Semifinal: Kendall Grove vs. Brett Cooper

Preliminary Bouts: (Live on SPIKE.com at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT)

Featherweight Bout: Rad Martinez vs. Edson Berto

Lightweight Bout: Justin Wilcox vs. Jason Fischer

Light Heavyweight Bout: Linton Vassell vs. Trevor Carlson

Welterweight Bout: Gavin Sterritt vs. Mike Estus

Lightweight Bout: Bubba Jenkins vs. Sean Powers

Middleweight Bout: Jose Rodriguez vs. Eric Wahlin

Forgot the post the line-up of this past Friday's card beforehand, so I'll post the results instead:



Bellator 115: Minakov vs. Kongo
Friday, April 4, 2014
From the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada
Live on SPIKE at 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT

Main Event:

Bellator Heavyweight Championship: Vitaly Minakov (C) def. Cheick Kongo via Unanimous Decision

Main Card Bouts:

Welterweight Bout: Herman Terrado vs. Justin Baesman resulted in a Majority Draw

Light Heavyweight Bout: Kelly Anundson def. Volkan Oezdemir via Submission (Crossface Crank) in Round 2

Middleweight Bout: Mikkel Parlo def. Johnny Cisneros via Unanimous Decision[/b]

Preliminary Bouts: (Live on SPIKE.com at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT)

Welterweight Bout: Rick Reeves def. James Terry via Split Decision

Heavyweight Bout: Freddie Aquitania def. Josh Appelt via Unanimous Decision

Lightweight Bout: Sinjen Smith def. Jason Powell via Submission (Armbar) in Round 1

Flyweight Bout: Benito Lopez def. Oscar Ramirez via Unanimous Decision

Lightweight Bout: Rudy Morales def. Jimmy Jones via Split Decision


*Welterweight Tournament Semifinal: Andrey Koreshkov vs. Sam Oropeza was postponed due to an illness to Koreshkov

**Middleweight Tournament Semifinal: Dan Cramer vs. Jeremy Kimball was canceled due to late replacement Kimball coming in overweight