Dan Didio posted:

Tonya Evinger has changed a lot as a fighter, not so much as a person.

Marching Powder posted:

man that evinger fight was straight dog poo poo after the hill showing but it was a legit win so, good?

Jeff Monson just tasted what could be the most bitter loss of his career.

Monson suffered a bicep tear injury that wouldn’t allow him to compete in any real fight prior to him getting in the ring with Ivan Shtyrkova.

Monson had told Titov Boxing Promotions CEO, Alexei Titov that he would not be able to compete in the fight and everyone came to an agreement that Monson and Shtyrkova would perform an exhibition match.

“The financial backer for the card got in contact with them and got everyone into a room,” Monson told Bloody Elbow. “We basically said what was going to happen and that we would go out for a couple of rounds and show some stuff. I went up to the guy, put his hand on my arm, and told him that I have to be careful with it. I can’t even throw punches or grapple you.

“He reluctantly agreed. He is a competitor. He didn’t want to do this.”

However, once the fight started, Monson quickly realized that the fight was no exhibition match like they had planned.

Shtyrkova threw some hard punches and one connected with Monson that sent him to canvas. Shtyrkova immediately went for a submission on Monson’s injured arm and pulled off an arm bar.

Monson was in disbelief of what just happened. After he was able to come to senses with what happened, Monson got mad and “bitch slapped” Titov and took him down when he saw him backstage.

“Unfortunately I lost my temper,” said Monson. When I saw him, it turned to anger. His security guards picked me up and kicked me. It became a big thing in the back.”

Monson said that he was promised that the promotion would release a statement to address what happened in the fight.

“We’ve been waiting for three days now for the promoter to come out and release a statement. He was supposed to apologize and say that things got out of hand. That hasn’t happened.”

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Datsik appears to have found a friend in controversial musician and quasi-celebrity Stanislav “Stas” Baretsky and they are seemingly joined at the hip in their collective role as public defenders. Baretsky has made his name with his controversial exploits—which usually involve attacking people at random.

The pair’s first port of call to defend the Russian people was to carry out a series of raids on brothels and casinos across Russia. According to Russian news outlet NTV. Datsik is very knowledgeable about both brothels and casinos, but only because he had heard stories about them from his prison inmates.

colonel_korn posted:

So Phil Davis and King Mo are fighting today, apparently? Has Bellator even been promoting that fight at all?

afatwhiteloaf posted:

Roop there it is .

https://twitter.com/Jolassanda/status/731479322331074560

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“It was very simple,” Coker told MMAjunkie. “Will Brooks’ contract is ending, and we made a decision not to renew it. We’re going to give him a full release, so we’re not going to be in the Will Brooks business any longer.”

[...]

“Will is a great kid,” Coker said. “At the end of the day, he’s had some good fights for Bellator, but I just don’t think it’s a fit, and he should move on to the next part of his life. I think we’re actually doing him a favor by taking this position. Now he can just move on, and we can move on, as well.

“I just think it would be a waste of time to continue this relationship and try to go through the dance of an option period and a matching period. I just think it wouldn’t have worked out anyway, so we decided today to let it go.”

Lord Waffle Beard posted:

Will brooks would have made a lot more $ fighting for bellator, bellator even offered him a really expensive contract, really weird career choice by brooks

Lord Waffle Beard posted:

Will brooks would have made a lot more $ fighting for bellator, bellator even offered him a really expensive contract, really weird career choice by brooks

Lord Waffle Beard posted:

even then he isnt gauranteed more money than bellator was offering,

Bushmeister posted:

A man was just laid out like a pro wrestler with a standing elbow in BAMMA. A goddamn beautiful knockout

edit:

https://twitter.com/BAMMA/status/731595085004079104

loving amazing

Chillanese posted:

Tachi Palace is on at the moment if anyone's bored. So far there's been a TKO by a guy who looked like Renan Barao with a mohawk and a d'arce choke by a guy who looked like Justin Scoggins.
http://taima.tv/r/mma