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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 FightsSeason 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 |
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fighters around, as he spends his non-fight time taking care of his paraplegic father. Berto is a leg lock specialist that never gets any press, mainly because he hasn't really ever destroyed anyone's feets.
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I really hope this shoddy matchmaking blows up in Bellator's face because that makes me laugh a good deal.
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Feb 24, 2014 17:33
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Goiti Yamauchi is fantastic to watch, the right hand side of the LW tournament looks like a whole lot of fun, the entirety of the heavyweight tournament is going to be funny, and I'm glad the bs Curran/Strauss rematch is happening quickly so that Pitbull can get his shot sooner rather than later. You LIke This
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anyone going to this bull poo poo friday night? i am sitting in the lower area, idk if its the floor or not
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That LHW tournament is about the saddest thing I've ever seen
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DumbWhiteGuy posted:That LHW tournament is about the saddest thing I've ever seen Gonna laugh when M'pumbu wins a split decision or something and Mo vs. Rampage gets torpedoed again. LW tournament looks cool, Joe Riggs continues to look like a 50 year old, HW tournament should be hilarious. Honestly this season looks better than their recent ones have been.
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John Romero posted:anyone going to this bull poo poo friday night? i am sitting in the lower area, idk if its the floor or not I keep thinking about it, but paying for those fights fills me with dread.
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Dave Jansen told me he's still in line for his title fight but I don't think he had any idea at all when that might be.
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So Bellator landed Monster Energy as their official energy drink sponsor and named Rampage Jackson as their first guy on the roster. Jokes write themselves, gang.
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Here's our Monster Energy Drink Monster Moment: Unleash the Monster in you. As you can see here Eric Prindle is having an asthma attack,
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-Atom- posted:So Bellator landed Monster Energy as their official energy drink sponsor and named Rampage Jackson as their first guy on the roster. It's not irresponsible as long as they didn't give him a truck with his torso airbrushed on the side.
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AS THE AWARD CEREMONY BEGINS, THE CROWD CAN BE HEARD WHISPERING... "WHERE IS THE CHAMPION? WHERE IS BIG MONSTER?" WHERE IS BIG MONSTER AS HIS ADMIRERS CHANT HIS NAME? ALREADY SEEKING THE NEXT TESTICLE. MONSTER ENERGY DRINK MEANS NOTHING TO HIM. THE FIGHT IS ALL.
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Mighty Mo is fighting Peter Graham in 2014. Sometimes I just like to write that out and look at it.
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Going to the March 21 show, headlined by the LHW title fight. Pretty excited to hear the crowd go apeshit for caveman and then immediately die off. I think I still have a cardboard cutout of caveman's face somewhere...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia_CAElSi8M I like to think this is how negotiations went when Bjorn signed the couple dozen Russian fighters. So pumped for March 7th, honestly more excited for it than any other card coming up. There's no way its not hilarious.
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I hope Bellator continues the trend of having batshit crazy prelims and boring TV matches.
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coconono posted:I hope Bellator continues the trend of having batshit crazy prelims and boring TV matches. bellator prelim heavyweights are the best part of any mma card
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Mighty Mom, Joe Riggs, King Mo, Cheick Kongo and War Machine in the same promotion? Did I die? Am I in heaven?
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Triticum Guzzler posted:Mighty Mo's Bellator fights have been fantastic EmanuelNewtonPieta.gif
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The SituAsian posted:EmanuelNewtonPieta.gif more anti Mo racism from the pspeanut gallery, shameful
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man matt bessette is an ugly motherfucker, but he got over leukemia and is from the methtown next door to my hometown so i am excited to see him friday and wish him the best, there is a lithuanian fighting in the prelims too
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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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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
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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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Triticum Guzzler posted:Here's our Monster Energy Drink Monster Moment: Unleash the Monster in you. As you can see here Eric Prindle is having an asthma attack, 
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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.
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I liked the Rampage special Spike had before the Beltran fight where Rampage kept skipping training to go clubbing and then he weighed in at 220
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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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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 illegalWhich 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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Are there two 'War Machines' because, despite never really giving a poo poo, I seem to remember him looking different
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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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Lobster thanks for keeping this thread up. It's simultaneously too funny too ignore and too stupid to keep up with
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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.
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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. He's Brazilian, cheer away
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Fat Twitter Man posted:He's Brazilian, cheer away Oh okay. I don't mean to be so bitter and perhaps racist. It's just that you can only be forced to watch Kyoji Horiguchi's tepid TKO over Dustin Pague on the UFC 166 undercard so many times before you snap. El Roncho fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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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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Missed the opening fight but it appears it ended with two clearly illegal knees to a grounded opponent resulting in a NC. Kicking the season off with a bang
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