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- CarlCX
- Dec 14, 2003
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29-28 Dumont, but I could see them going 29-28 Rosa.
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Apr 22, 2023 23:15
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- CarlCX
- Dec 14, 2003
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I'd bet he'll be back for one more fight. They have yet to extract all value from him and this is his first loss in four fights, so it doesn't even smell that bad yet.
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Apr 22, 2023 23:30
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- ccubed
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How's it hanging, brah?
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Not feeling these new pop music cues in the transitions.
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Apr 22, 2023 23:33
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- Firebatgyro
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Well they are back on schedule now
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Apr 22, 2023 23:43
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- CarlCX
- Dec 14, 2003
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what an incredibly poor gameplan
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Apr 23, 2023 00:15
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- CarlCX
- Dec 14, 2003
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Should be 29-28 Semelsberger but we'll see.
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Apr 23, 2023 00:32
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- CarlCX
- Dec 14, 2003
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two thirty twenty seven scores for that fight, christ almighty
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Apr 23, 2023 00:34
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- blue footed boobie
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Whoever this announcer is seems to think you can use your toes to grab onto the cage?
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Apr 23, 2023 01:00
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- LobsterMobster
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"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."
"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
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bellator 295 prelims kicking off. come for michael c williams in a hawaiian shirt, stay for the heavyweight who lost a fight because he bit his opponent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isel-KPoi2I
 it's time for another B League Preview!
Bellator 295 - Saturday, April 22
Main Card - 10 PM ET, Showtime
Bantamweight Grand Prix Final - Raufeon “Supa” Stots vs Patchy “No Love” Mix
Stots is 19-1 with 4 TKO and 4 sub wins. He’s a perfect 7-0 in Bellator as part of his overall 11 fight winning streak dating back to 2017.
Mix is 17-1 with 1 TKO and 12 submission wins. He’s 6-1 in Bellator overall, with 4 straight wins.
Stots had some problems with Sabatello’s wrestling, and Mix is a far more offensively-focused grappler. If Mix can get his hands on Stots, expect Patchy to look for submissions early and often. However, as we often see with people who min-max to be excellent grapplers, the rest of their game lags far behind. If Raufeon can keep the fight standing, there’s a good chance he butchers Mix on the feet.
Flyweight - Ilima-Lei “The Iliminator” Macfarlane vs Kana Watanabe
Macfarlane is 12-2 with 2 TKO and 6 sub wins. She’s 11-2 in Bellator, winning her latest bout in August.
Watanabe is 11-1 with 3 TKO and 4 sub wins. She’s 3-1 in Bellator, winning her most recent bout by triangle last May.
Got a pair of grappley gals, should be good!
Featherweight - Aaron Pico vs James “The Alley Cat” Gonzalez
Pico is 10-4 with 7 TKO and 2 sub wins, with all of his pro bouts taking place inside the world famous Bellator Circlegon. Prior to his shoulder falling apart last October, Pico was riding a 6-fight win streak.
Gonzalez is 10-5 with 3 TKO and 2 sub wins. He’s 1-0 in Bellator, but did a brief jaunt to the PFL Challenger Series. Despite winning by first round TKO there, he isn’t in the regular PFL 2023 season. Kinda weird.
My personal vendetta against Pico has mostly subsided. He’s lost enough that I can finally view him as a fighter, and not the Special Bellator Boy who gets the easy matchups (that he doesn’t always win and I get to laugh and laugh). He’s probably going to win this one, he’s got a lot of high level experience.
Flyweight - Ray “The Tazmexican Devil” Borg vs Kyoji Horiguchi
Borg is 16-5 with 1 TKO and 6 submission wins. He’s on a 3-fight win streak since he left the UFC in 2020.
Horiguchi is 31-5 with 15 TKO and 4 sub wins. He’s 2-2 in Bellator, having dropped his two most recent bouts in the Circlegon, but he bounced back with another pair of wins in Rizin.
We got two guys who were 24 and 25 when they got trounced by DJ. Borg’s career has gone pretty bad since then. He hasn’t lost a ton, he’s just been unable to step inside the cage. Horiguchi has looked good since that DJ loss, except those two Bellator defeats, which feel like huge letdowns. I feel like Horiguchi is a lot better, but it’s hard to say what Borg looks like since he’s fought so infrequently. Sure, he’s been a bit more active of late, but it also hasn’t been against the highest levels of opponents. THIS FIGHT IS OFF AND I AM UPSET
Prelim Card - 8 PM ET, Youtube
Featherweight - Mads Burnell vs Justin “J-Train” Gonzales
Burnell is 16-5 with 1 TKO and 9 sub wins. He’s 3-2 in Bellator, losing his last two, both by decision.
Gonzales is 14-1, with 4 TKO and 1 sub win. He’s 3-1 in Bellator, currently on a 2 fight win streak.
Other than Aaron Pico, Gonzales has fought the same level of Bellator competition as Burnell. I should caveat that I am a Mads Burnell Doubter, and I’m ready to be proven disastrously wrong, as per usual.
Lightweight - Yancy Medeiros vs Charlie “917” Leary
Medeiros is 15-8, with 7 wins by TKO and 4 by submission. He won his Bellator debut last year by decision. Primarily a brawler, his last stoppage win was in 2017. To be fair to Yancy, he didn’t have any kind of win between that one and the Bellator fight.
Leary’s record is 17-13 with 9 TKO and 3 sub wins. He’s 3-4 in Bellator, having lost his last two.
Looks like we’ve got a Captain Cook situation brewing! To put it plainly, I hope a Native Hawaiian beats the hell out of a British.
Featherweight - Kai “Fighting Hawaiian” Kamaka III vs Adli “Sunshine” Edwards
Kamaka is 10-5 with just one TKO and just one sub win. He’s 4-1 in Bellator, notching his first career stoppage win in his latest fight.
Edwards is 9-2 with 2 TKO and 3 sub wins. He is 0-1 in Bellator, getting punched out by Aaron Pico last April, snapping a 7-fight win streak.
The Pico fight was a big step up in competition for Edwards. Kamaka should be slightly more his speed, but I think Kai is probably a bit better.
Flyweight - Sumika “Lady Samurai” Inaba vs Veta Arteaga
Inaba is a perfect 5-0, all fights in Bellator, with 3 TKO and one submission win.
Arteaga is 7-4 with 1 TKO and 2 sub wins. She’s 6-4 in Bellator, currently on a two fight win streak.
This will be Inaba’s biggest test to see if she can move up the 125 lb rankings. She’s early in her MMA career, but she’s 32, having gotten a pretty late start in face punching. This will also be just the second time Inaba has faced someone with a winning record, so we’ll see how prepared the Lady Samurai is.
Featherweight - Keoni Diggs vs Weber “The Silverback” Almeida
Diggs is 10-2 with 1 TKO and 6 wins by sub. He’s 3-2 in Bellator, ending a two fight losing streak with a decision win last October.
Almeida is 7-1 with 6 of his wins coming by TKO. Weber is 5-1 in Bellator, winning his last two after tasting defeat for the first time as a professional back in 2021.
Two mid-30s featherweights fighting on the early part of the Bellator Human Sacrifice Hour prelims. Let’s just hope we get some promised mayhem, violence, and bloodshed, fellas.
Lightweight - Bobby King vs Aalon Cruz
King is 12-5 with 3 wins by TKO and 5 by submission. He has gone 3-2 in Bellator so far, losing to the two good fighters he’s faced, Alexander Shabily and Gadzhi Rabadanov. To King’s credit, he went the distance in both of them.
Cruz brings an overall record of 10-4 to the cage, with 4 TKO and 2 submission wins. He won on the Contender Series in 2019, then got obliterated in two UFC fights in a combined 3 minutes. Since then, Cruz has won a pair of fights on the regional scene and now we are here.
I don’t think Cruz is being brought in as an equal match to King. Pretty sure Bobby is going to push him over and deliver a moderate whomping.
Heavyweight - Davion “All Day” Franklin vs Kasim Aras
Franklin is 5-1 with 3 TKO wins. He’s fought his entire pro career thus far in Bellator, losing his last bout by RNC to Marcelo Golm.
Aras is 7-1 with 3 TKO and 2 submission wins, and to show he’s a cool badass, he’s also got a loss by DQ due to CHEST BITE. An absolute savage! He’s on a 3-fight win streak, so he mentally bounced back from chomping into human flesh, and hopefully his hunger has been satiated. For now.
I am a simple keyboard warrior, but I would not agree to a fight against someone that has a history, no matter how minor, of being a cannibal. Respect to you, Davion Franklin, but be careful.
Flyweight - Ilara “Arya Stark” Joanne vs Bruna Ellen
Joanne is 11-6, with 4 TKO and 3 sub wins. She is currently 3-2 in Bellator, having stopped a two fight skid with a pair of decision wins last year.
Ellen is 6-4 with a single TKO stoppage to her name. She is 4-4 in Bellator, losing her latest bout by decision.
It’s going to be interesting to see how long Joanne keeps the Arya Stark nickname as Game of Thrones slowly fades from cultural relevancy. I guess the other fun game to play is to see if she retires from fighting before Martin finishes the next book. Anyway, this is going to be a fight between people. You can watch it or you can not watch it, the choice is yours.
Welterweight - Alexey Shurkevich vs Masayuki Kikuiri
Shurkevich is 13-5 with 1 submission and 9 TKO victories. He is 1-0 in Bellator, winning his Circlegon debut back in 2021. Since then, he went to Shlemenko FC and, fittingly, lost by spinning backfist knockout.
Kikuiri is a type of Nepalese short sword, favored by the Gurkhas. Whoops, that’s not right. Masayuki Kikuiri is 8-2 with 5 wins by TKO. He’s fought exclusively in Pancrase, where about half his wins have come against guys with losing records.
This looks like another set up fight, in that Kikuiri is being set up to get beat down.
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Apr 23, 2023 01:06
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- CarlCX
- Dec 14, 2003
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I'm still so goddamn mad about Kyoji. And my lost fandom for Bobby Green.
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Apr 23, 2023 01:17
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- LobsterMobster
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"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."
"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
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Good KO on the early prelims. And I was horribly wrong on my assessment!
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Apr 23, 2023 01:19
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- CarlCX
- Dec 14, 2003
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jared gordon is loving cursed, man
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Apr 23, 2023 01:25
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- LobsterMobster
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"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."
"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
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Joe Rogan thinks that should be legal
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Apr 23, 2023 01:26
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- blue footed boobie
- Sep 14, 2012
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Bad stoppage imo. Dude got cleaned out but you have to at least see whether he can recover.
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Apr 23, 2023 01:47
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- LobsterMobster
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"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."
"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
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Time for the biter to fight on Bellator
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Apr 23, 2023 01:50
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- blue footed boobie
- Sep 14, 2012
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Big fan of scary Russian knockout man.
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Apr 23, 2023 02:00
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- CarlCX
- Dec 14, 2003
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i claim victory over the entire bloodyelbow editorial squad
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Apr 23, 2023 02:11
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- blue footed boobie
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Big fan of scary Russian knockout man.
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Apr 23, 2023 02:11
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- Digital Jedi
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PAvo rules
What power he has just in the jab and that sneaky uppercut is so nice
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Apr 23, 2023 02:12
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- blue footed boobie
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PAvo rules
What power he has just in the jab and that sneaky uppercut is so nice
Yeah it was pretty wild seeing blaydes getting continuously rocked by his jabs
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Apr 23, 2023 02:17
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- CarlCX
- Dec 14, 2003
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If we ever get to it, Pavlovich vs Jones would basically be a pass/fail of if Jones can take him down, but pretty sure Jones is retiring after this summer, so good luck to the winter's vacant title fight between Pavlovich and Jailton Almeida
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Apr 23, 2023 02:21
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- BlindSite
- Feb 8, 2009
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Considering who blaydes has fought and who couldn't put him out.
Thats a scary man
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Apr 23, 2023 02:41
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- LobsterMobster
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"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."
"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
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Inaba punched a lot of blood out of Arteaga's face
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Apr 23, 2023 02:57
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- CarlCX
- Dec 14, 2003
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Hell of a job, Patchy. Goddamn.
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- Digital Jedi
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God drat what a knee
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