Posted on 02/17/2017 11:46:45 PM PST by Impy
Today, Saturday Feb. 18th at 9PM Eastern on Spike TV
Fedor "The Last Emperor" Emelianenko makes his long awaited Bellator debut, taking on Matt "Meathead" Mitrione (R)
Rest of the Bellator Card
Josh Thomson vs. Patricky Freire
Cheick "The Sandman"* Kongo vs. Oli Thompson
*Cause he puts fans to sleep
Chick Fight: Veta Arteaga vs. Brooke Mayo
and former UFC Star Josh Kosheck (R), in his first fight in 2 years is looking for his first win in 5, in his Bellator debut againt journeyman Mauricio Alonso.
Tons of prelim fights prior to the event on Spike.com if you're interested
And then on Sunday night, presumably to avoid going up against Fedor, UFC Fight Night on Fox Sports 1 (and Fox Sports Go). The original Main Event Junior dos Santos v. Stefan Struve was removed due to an injury last month to Struve.
Derrick "The Black Beast" Lewis takes on Travis "Hapa" Browne in the HW Main Event
In the co-main Former Welterweight Champ Johnny "Big Rig" Hendricks makes his Middleweight debut vs. Hector Lombard,
Former Women's Title Challenger Sara McMann vs. Gina Mazany is also on the card.
Prelims start at 7 eastern, Main Card at 9 eastern.
Taking this one off I guess. That’s why they hired Martinez, to spell Buffer since there are more events now.
Lewis calls out the vanquished Browne for his alleged wife-beating.
Lewis`s post-fight interview was great
Yeah that was classic
Dana White immediately tweeted against the ref, good old Steve M., for not stopping the fight soon enough.
Excuse me the ref was Mario Yamasaki, White was joking with the reference to Steve, known for late stoppages.
Dana White hates Steve M. With a passion he`s never held back his feelings on that guy.
Alright Impy what`s our final score on the main card picks?
UFC Main Card Results
Impy 5-1
Stonewall 4-2
Fuji 3-3
Chris 1-1
Freedom Force 1-2
Bob 1-0 (presuming by “Henderson to win” you meant Hendricks ;) )
And presuming my math is right
UFC Totals for those picking Main Card and Prelims
Impy 8-3!!!
Stonewall 5-6
Mr. Fuji 4-6
As my reward I’m gonna eat some ice cream, but I was gonna do that anyway ;)
Fight of the night was the main event. Performance bonuses to to Felder and Santos.
Thanks for participating, UFC 209 is on March 4th
This Friday, more Bellator, we can reuse this thread if anyone wants to make picks
http://bellator.spike.com/events/x7djzb/bellator-173-mcgeary-vs-fields
That was a different type of call out.
It was a late stoppage but the refs tend to give the cage veterans a little more leeway. Although, that was too much leeway, since Lewis definitely had put him away. I don’t think we’ll see Browne for a while.
MMA Ping. Bellator/BAMMA (UK) joint event
I'll take McGeary. Other than Norman Parke who I think is on the untelevised prelims, I don't know anyone else from Adam.
Going with Mcgeary!
I’ve no idea who anyone else is at all :O
I`ll take MCgeary, Gallagher, Kavanagh, Lohore, Lapilus, Parke
hmmm- don’t know one single fighter there- gonna have to pass on this one-
Stonewall 5-1! (Wrong on the Chick fight)
Chris 1-0
Impy 1-0
WOW @ Stonewall :O
5-1 now thats what I`m talkin about! (:
UFC 209...Khabib vs Ferguson is off....Khabib can’t make weight...Ferguson pretty much called it embed 5...’your conditioning sucks’
That's too bad. More weight cutting issues ugh ugh ugh.
Bellator tonight, Spike TV top of the hour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellator_MMA_in_2017#Bellator_174
I'll take Budd, Gonsalez, Lavato, Wren
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