Posted on 06/23/2017 11:58:46 PM PDT by Impy
MMA action this weekend
First up Saturday Night it's Bellator 180 + the Bellator NYC PPV Event
Bellator 180 Prelims can be viewed for free on Bellator.com
Main Card on Spike TV at 8:00 PM Eastern
Bellator NYC on Pay-per-View at 10:00 PM Eastern
Then on Sunday night it's UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Lee
Early Prelims on UFC Fight Pass
Prelims on Fox Sports *2* and Fox Sports Go at 7:00 PM Eastern
Main Card on Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports Go at 9:00 PM Eastern
Some of the key fights
The Bellator PPV is headlined by a "grudge match between Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva
Plus the long awaited fight between FEDOR and Matt Mitrione
Also LW and WW Champs Michael Chandler and Douglas Lima both defend their titles
On the Spike TV portion of the card LHW Champ Phil Davis defends his belt against Ryan Bader
Also, Chinzo Machida, Neiman Gracie, and a chick fight
The UFC card is headlined by Lightweight contenders Michael Chiesa and Kevin Lee
Also
Tim Boetsch vs. Johny Hendricks
Felice Herrig vs. Justine Kish
Tim Means vs. Alex Garcia
B.J. Penn vs. Dennis Siver
and on the prelims
Clay Guida vs. Erik Koch
Carla Esparza vs. Maryna Moroz
Sonnen wins by decision, he took down Silva a lot.
Vintage Sonnen in the post-fight comments
First he says “God Da*m I hate New York” then he says he made Tito Ortiz (who was trash talking him during the fight) tap out in less than a minute (alternative fact) and then he calls out Fedor in the least respectfully way imaginable, saying Fedor asked him for an autograph.
LOL (It’s all an act of course)
I didn’t even know who to try to pick in that match up. Neither of those two guys have done much or shown anything recently. Kind of like much of the UFC card tomorrow.
That is pretty funny though. At least he can be entertaining with his shtick.
Pretty good night of fights. The double knockdown was amazing! Meathead was gracious as always. What a nice dude. Loved the call for people to help the family of the fighter who died recently.
And Sonnen had a lot more to offer than what I thought. Good for him. Silva got old and Sonnen still had his wrestling skills and a good control top game.
Bellator Pick Results
Impy 7-3
Bob 6-1
Dad 5-3
Stonewall 4-4
Chris 1-3
500. For me ouch!
Thanks Impy.
UFC Fight Night reminder, prelims at the top of the hour
My picks
Chiesa
Hendricks
Herrig
Reyes
Means
Penn
Guida
Miranda
Moroz
Horcher
Guida looked good! Wins by decision.
I’m mostly going to take a break from this card, can’t really make much of it, but I will take Cheisa in the main, and about to watch Penn vs. Siver on Loser Vision!
Very good fight by Siver!
Impressive display of striking martial arts and gas tank.
I remember when Penn was eating the blood of his opponents off his gloves. Much has changed.
This is one of the fights I couldn’t get a feel for, I didn’t think Siver would win, but I didn’t think BJ would win either. Oh Well.
Siver wins majority decision. He mostly dominated the fight but Penn got a knockdown in the 2nd round, 1 judge (incorrectly imo) gave that round to Penn by a 10-8, creating a draw on one card.
Looks like someone just got a fast broken nose. OW!
cool- was he still ‘animalistic’ in his fighting method? Or is he more refined now? He used to be a mad man- on par with Diego Sanchez- folks like guido and sanchez really made MMA fighting exciting to watch - couldn’t wait to see them fight again- hope clay is still like that?
Boetsch lands a head kick, follows up with punches to TKO Big Rigg. Hendricks (who was once champ down at 170) had missed weight by 3 pounds, clocking in at 188. He’s now lost 4 of 5. Easily the biggest win of Boetsch’s career.
Guida was in full gorilla mode! His old self. Good to see.
I still remember an awful fight he had with Gray Maynard where he spent 4 of 5 rounds actively running away. This is the best he’s looked since then.
Boetsch looked absolutely incredible. That guy is a monster.
I’m not sure where Johnny goes from here. Tough going these days.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, MARIO, YOU SUCK!
“Full gorilla mode” LOL!- love it- perfectly describes his fighting style lol
Ugh, bad stoppage, Chiesa didn’t tap.
He very well may have (or passed out) in another 10 seconds but he didn’t. Disappointing end to the night. I don’t really like Lee, seems like a cocky *ss, but he now has an impressive 5 fight win streak (and 9 of 10!).
Yep, that dude is real good. I didn’t like the stoppage either, however, Chiesa did allow himself to be placed in a very precarious fight ending position.
If you want to win, you need to do what Lee did, and not what Chiesa did.
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