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Bjorn "Dog Killa" Rebney proudly brings to whatever Indian casino doesn't have an Asian Elvis booked that night, season ten of Bellator MMA, the toughest* tournament in sports, and the only place where title shots are earned, not given**! Season ten will feature tournaments in the following five weight classes: Featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight (Or, as it is known on the B-leagues, trash/supperweight) Featherweight Tournament The featherweight tournament is an 8-man affair, and it features notable names like Diego "The Gun" Nunes, Mike "The Marine" Richman, and Goiti Yamauchi. The winner gets a title shot at either Pat Curran or Daniel Straus, unless Curran loses again, in which case Pat will probably get another rematch. My Crustacean Mafioso prediction for this tournament is: Yamauchi does cool subs to everyone Lightweight The 155lbs tourney is another 8-man dust 'em up, and it's got Marcin "Pole Harris" Held, Terry "Posterized" Etim, Patricky "Pitbull" Freire, and my fave, David "The Caveman" Rickels. Winner takes on the winner of Alvarez/Chandler II. My pick is for Rickels to Caveman club his way through again. Welterweight Welterweight is another 8-man tournament, and it features such luminaries as Joe Riggs and War Machine, and the winner gets to take on either Douglas Lima or Rick Hawn. All I care in this tournament is that War Machine gets his face punched really good. Light Heavyweight The 205 pound tournament is only a 4-man version, and it's totally not because Bjorn wants King Mo vs Rampage (It totally is). Former champ Christian M'Pumbu and Mikhail Zayats round out the brackets. Part of me wants Zayats for upset purposes, but I would also like to see Mo win, only to lose for a third time to Emmanuel Newton (After Newton beats Atilla Vegh, ) Heavyweight Supperweight is a respectable 8-man tournament, with the winner taking on the victor between Chieck Kongo and Vitaly Minakov. The tournament features solid, jiggly names like Blagoi Ivanov, Dick Hale, Lavar Johnson, and Mighty Goddamn Mo. Let's Go Mo! Title Fights Season 10 will have seven title fights, and most of the challengers are tournament winners, so that's not bad. Bantamweight - Bellator 111, March 7, 2014 Eduardo Dantas vs Anthony Leone Dantas was going to take on Rafael Silva, but Silva was injured, so here's Anthony Leone, who lost to Silva in the tournament finals because why not? Featherweight - Bellator 112, March 14, 2014 Daniel Straus vs Pat Curran Rather than have tournament winners Patricio Freire or Frodo Khasbulaev take on Straus, Curran gets a rematch, despite losing a clear-cut unanimous decision (And Freire lost a splitter against Curran previously) Light Heavyweight - Bellator 113, March 21, 2014 Attila Vegh vs Emmanuel Newton I'm pretty sure this is the first ever title unification fight in Bellator's history, because Vegh was "mysteriously injured", leading to a Newton vs Mo rematch for an interim belt. Now Newton faces a big step up in competition as he takes on Vegh. Middleweight - Bellator 114, March 28, 2014 Alexander Shlemenko vs Brennan Ward The Siberian Spinner takes on the Irish Bad Boy in the first traditional Bellator title fight of the season. I'm pretty sure Shlemenko will whomp on Ward pretty spectacularly and then retreat to his fortress of terror in Russia's frozen wastelands. Heavyweight - Bellator 115, April 4, 2014 Vitaly Minakov vs Chieck Kongo Yet another tournament winner taking on the champ, what is Bellator coming to?! Kongo struggled with a water bottle while crushing cans in the tournament, so it's a mixed bag as to how he'll deal with Minakov (Probably by dick punches and French wrestling) Welterweight - Bellator 117, April 18, 2014 Douglas Lima vs Rick Hawn With Ben Askren and GSP gone, the two major North American 170 pound titles might finally be held by dudes what kick-punch a little more (Nah, Hawn will probs judo the poo poo outta Lima) Bantamweight - Bellator 118, May 2, 2014 SOMEBODY vs Joe Warren Whomever wins betwixt Edward Dentist and Andy Lions gets to punch Joe Warren in his head for a couple of minutes until he starts to wrestle them. Should be neat! Marquee Names! In addition to the top-level talent in the various tournaments, Bellator has a roster of dudes that are sure to draw in die hard and casual fans alike.
Important information: NEVER FORGET * - Unless we want King Mo to win a tournament, then he'll fight two iterations of Some Dude and still lose to one of them. ** - Unless we really like Pat Curran and give him an automatic rematch. Or get someone to fake an injury so we can make the 'interim' title match we really want LINK FOR STREAMIN' PRELIMS: Triticum Guzzler posted:http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:live:spike.com:8d9592e4-273d-4e14-8c9f-2b9ad00fc380 LobsterMobster fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Mar 1, 2014 |
# ¿ Feb 24, 2014 17:00 |
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 07:55 |
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Rampage one of 4 fighters to miss weight on their first attempt WHO COULD HAVE EVER SEEN THIS SHOCKING TURN OF EVENTS COMING?!
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 00:36 |
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Fentry posted:3 out of 4 made weight on their second attempt. Dave Roberts didn't even come close and his fight was cancelled, robbing us of a fight involving a guy who hasn't fought in nearly 5 years and lost 6 of his last 7 dammit bjorn, didn't you threaten his dog good enough?!
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 01:40 |
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Fentry posted:So there's some sort of awful Rampage special on Spike right now called #Rampage4Real, yes the hashtag is in in the actual title. So far it has been about 10% Rampage training and 90% horrible staged reality show poo poo about Rampage's crackhead cousin with gold teeth going on job interviews after being cut off by Rampage. Also Mayhem just showed up. This is loving horrible. HashtagRampageFourReal is one of the greatest shows in the history of the world. Last year featured him coming up with his greatest business plan ever: writing lyrics to set to trance music to play in night clubs.
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 14:36 |
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BELLATOR 110, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28TH, 2014! Season 10 starts off with a bang! Prelims - Bellator.com
Main Card - SpikeTV
Reasons to watch this thing instead of Titan FC or getting sleep to prepare for TUF China Finale PRELIM SUPPERWEIGHT ACTION! Richman vs Green should be cool Goiti Yamauchi is so loving it is almost illegal Which half of the gamed light heavyweight tournament will fall apart before Bjorn Rebney's dog-murdering eyeballs? (My guess is M'Pumbu beats Jackson)
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 14:52 |
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SUPER NEAT TOY posted:Are there two 'War Machines' because, despite never really giving a poo poo, I seem to remember him looking different Prison changes a man
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 16:42 |
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El Roncho posted:So I should cheer for Yamauchi? I automatically sour on fighters with Japaanese names because my only other MMA fan friend is a big nerd who freaks out over all things from Japan. Yamauchi is basically the tiny, BJJ-version of Lyoto. He is Way Cool.
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 22:49 |
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gently caress this job right in the face, i am missing prime bellator fun times
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2014 00:55 |
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colonel_korn posted:Haha I'm having trouble distinguishing between all the actual blood on the mat and the ad for the new 300 movie Argh, dangit, I hate missing fun stuff like this (At least I have a friend giving me some play by play commentary via g-chat)
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2014 01:59 |
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My friend just said Martinez vs Yamauchi is going down now instead of on the main card (Where I could watch it, at least on DVR). GOD drat IT
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2014 02:22 |
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were there any cool things on the main card i missed, gang?
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2014 03:56 |
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-Atom- posted:Nunes just got robbed Not too often that happens to the due with the Gun
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2014 04:08 |
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fatherdog posted:No, because he said it being pre-planned is the reason there'd be no suspensions for a pull-apart brawl. Pre-planning "having two guys in the same general vicinity" is not a mitigating factor for that. Pre-planning a shoving match is. I hope Spang was brought in to coordinate the shoving.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2014 21:50 |
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What's War Machine been up to? Oh, not much, just struggling to buy a Slurpee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sio3gH8qEQY (Yuriy thinks I am mean to War Machine for calling him a dumb idiot-baby. Anyone else wanna weigh in on the subject?)
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2014 18:13 |
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BELLATOR 111, FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2014 Prelims - Bellator.com, 7:00 PM ET
Main Card - Spike TV, 9:00 PM ET
Reasons to watch Bellator: - HOLY poo poo LOOKIT ALL THOSE SUPPERWEIGHT FIGHTS Y'ALL! - Edward Dentist is p. cool - Mighty Mo gonna sub Peter Graham, probably - Will Eric Prindle destroy another man's groin? TUNE IN TO FIND OUT! - Primus Sucks
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2014 00:25 |
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TheCool69 posted:What?? Somebody else is using Bas Ruttens nickname? A shameful and lamentable dustman, I'm sure
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2014 03:20 |
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Yuriy posted:War Machine fighting is funny but the possibility of him having a mental breakdown about not fighting is also funny, so I'm torn His twitter seems to be fairly calm so far. Only time will tell, though
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2014 18:25 |
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HOLY poo poo EDWARD DENTIST! AND THE NOVA UNIAO SHUFFLE! LobsterMobster fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Mar 8, 2014 |
# ¿ Mar 8, 2014 04:49 |
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Fentry posted:That was loving insanely slick, maybe the best transition to a RNC I've ever seen Sudo's one on Remedios was pretty cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_pT0i69OU
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2014 04:55 |
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fatherdog posted:hahahaha, you beat me to posting this by like ten seconds.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2014 05:01 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3sJY9rHhoo War Machine's thoughts on TRT: - Don't get an exemption, just cheat under the radar - Vitor is a good, Christian boy now, leave him alone
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2014 03:50 |
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Bubba Smith posted:I think Bjorn Rebney is hoping that King Mo does get injured so they can replace him with anybody else. Jason Guida is fighting for Bellator on Friday, so I am hoping he gets the call
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2014 05:49 |
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Bellator 112 - March 14, 2014!!! Prelims - 7:00 PM, Spike.com, Bellator.com, that link Duncan posted
Main Card - 9:00 PM, SpikeTV
Reasons to watch this card: - JASON loving GUIDA - I kinda like Nah-shon Burrell - Andrey Koreshkov is a pretty OK - Straus vs Curran III should be neato torpedo Also, at a dude nicknamed "The Believer" being 9-12. I believe you need to quit MMA, chief.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2014 15:36 |
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what prelims do i need to go back and watch? all of them, i bet
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2014 01:20 |
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Yuriy posted:honestly just the one submission one that was pretty cool But did he at least lose, right?
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2014 01:27 |
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Capoeira is dumb and fake
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2014 02:42 |
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KO-resh-KO-v
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2014 03:04 |
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Awesome fight
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2014 04:05 |
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Tyree posted:I have no idea what Straus was trying to do once Curran took his back. He just crawled on all fours to the cage for no discernible reason. Last I heard, Frodo was having visa issues
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2014 04:12 |
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It's not yet time for my weekly 'breakdown', but drat if I'm not super excited for CAVEMAN this Friday.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2014 13:27 |
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Bellator 113 - Friday, March 21, 2014 Prelims: Spike.com, Bellator.com, Duncan's quoted post in the OP - 7:00 PM ET
Main Card: SpikeTV, random internet streams - 9:00 PM ET
Why you should watch this card: - CAVEMAN - pole harris is kinda cool, for a 12-year old that only tries leglocks, i guess - Newton is gonna skank his way to a unified title - but seriously, CAVEMAN vs Pitbull is probably gonna be really awesome
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2014 13:41 |
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Wise Learned Man posted:This is a joke you're making and not his actual nickname, right? I remember him heel hooking Rich Clementi, so I can't be sure. Someone else on the forums came up with it, and i've been running with it because my initial offering was something about Marcin Held using toe holds.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2014 13:53 |
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According to Zombie Prophet's GIFs, I missed at least two rad things.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 01:48 |
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"I know what it's like to go hungry" - dude what still looks emaciated
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 02:33 |
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Pole Harris gonna held toes
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 02:42 |
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Baby Rickels with the beard is amazing
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 03:16 |
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 03:32 |
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Bellator 114, Friday March 28th, 2014! Prelims - Bellator.com, That link what Dunc posted, 7:00 PM ET
Main Card - Spike TV, 9:00 PM ET
Reasons to watch this card: - Bubba Jenkins is pretty cool, good at grapples and such - Justin Wilcox is going to be as wide as he is tall, and it's fun to have interestingly shaped fighters - Rad "" Martinez is amazing - The featherweight tournament fights should actually be pretty cool. - DA SPYDER, TEAM DAGGER - Shlemenko gonna spinning poo poo his way through Ward's face.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2014 16:20 |
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Prelims! Check the OP for Dunc's link! DUST IN THE WIND!
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2014 00:05 |
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 07:55 |
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Z-league grappling is the best
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