Coming off that admittedly surprisingly entertaining UFC in Chile card (no thanks to Usman and Maia) we get both a milestone Bellator card (200.....wow, here we are guys) and a UFC in the UK with Till fighting Wonderboy, amongst others.
Friday night we get several key Bellator match-ups and a title fight:
Mousasi vs Carvalho
Mousasi gets a title shot after not so impressively debuting in Bellator. He got the job done...but that's about all you can take away from it. Carvalho is a big, impressive, truly middlweight sized fighter and despite Mousasi having fought in several weight classes across his storied MMA career, the sport has evolved...and I think this is a tougher fight for him than a number of pundits are forecasting.
Roy Nelson vs Someone (CroCop is injured)
Michael Page vs Caveman Rickels
Rickels is tough...but that will just get him CTE level damage in this fight. Page is too long, his attack too varied, and hits too hard and often to lose this fight. Tough way to get paid being Rickels in this fight.
Linton Vassel vs Phil Davis
Vassel has beaten everyone in Bellator save Bader, King Mo, and Emmanuel Newton....i.e: the Bellator championship belt holder level guys. Phil Davis is also that tier as the fight he lost to Bader was very close scoring-wise. Tough night for Vassel here as Phil will take him down and pound on him for at least 2 of 3 rounds.
The undercard also has Anastasia Yankova (flyweight) who will hopefully bounce on over to the UFC eventually.
Sunday - early in the day we get a UFC in the UK (Liverpool to be exact) with the likes of:
Darren Till vs Wonderboy Thompson in a real test for the Till who has leapfrogged up the pecking order with his win over Cerrone. I'm honestly only interested in this scrap and the Claudio da Silva fight. The rest of the card is all prelim fodder. Likely to be some entertaining scraps, but I just watched 5 hours of prelim worthy fights from Chile this past weekend. I probably won't tune in for this one and spend my Sunday midday watching TBH. Anyhow....
Neil Magny vs Craig White (who despite it being his debut finished his previous 5 opponents in Cage Warriors in the UK)
Surging Claudio Henrique da Silva faces Nordine Taleb
Tom Breese returns from ACL surgery.
Invicta Ring Boy Elias Theodoru features on the early portion of the event.
Friday night we get several key Bellator match-ups and a title fight:
Mousasi vs Carvalho
Mousasi gets a title shot after not so impressively debuting in Bellator. He got the job done...but that's about all you can take away from it. Carvalho is a big, impressive, truly middlweight sized fighter and despite Mousasi having fought in several weight classes across his storied MMA career, the sport has evolved...and I think this is a tougher fight for him than a number of pundits are forecasting.
Roy Nelson vs Someone (CroCop is injured)
Michael Page vs Caveman Rickels
Rickels is tough...but that will just get him CTE level damage in this fight. Page is too long, his attack too varied, and hits too hard and often to lose this fight. Tough way to get paid being Rickels in this fight.
Linton Vassel vs Phil Davis
Vassel has beaten everyone in Bellator save Bader, King Mo, and Emmanuel Newton....i.e: the Bellator championship belt holder level guys. Phil Davis is also that tier as the fight he lost to Bader was very close scoring-wise. Tough night for Vassel here as Phil will take him down and pound on him for at least 2 of 3 rounds.
The undercard also has Anastasia Yankova (flyweight) who will hopefully bounce on over to the UFC eventually.
Sunday - early in the day we get a UFC in the UK (Liverpool to be exact) with the likes of:
Darren Till vs Wonderboy Thompson in a real test for the Till who has leapfrogged up the pecking order with his win over Cerrone. I'm honestly only interested in this scrap and the Claudio da Silva fight. The rest of the card is all prelim fodder. Likely to be some entertaining scraps, but I just watched 5 hours of prelim worthy fights from Chile this past weekend. I probably won't tune in for this one and spend my Sunday midday watching TBH. Anyhow....
Neil Magny vs Craig White (who despite it being his debut finished his previous 5 opponents in Cage Warriors in the UK)
Surging Claudio Henrique da Silva faces Nordine Taleb
Tom Breese returns from ACL surgery.
Invicta Ring Boy Elias Theodoru features on the early portion of the event.
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