Coming off a great opening round of the featherweight tournament at last week, it’s the lightweights turn this Friday at Bellator 77. The field of eight lightweights features many new faces, a couple of returning fighters and one MMA veteran that has nearly as many fights as the only seven fighters combined.
As Promised by Dana White, (Following the controversial split decision win in his rematch against Frankie Edgar) Benson Henderson’s next title defense will not be another rematch. The next time he puts his belt on the line will be at UFC on Fox 5, December 8th against the infamous Nate Diaz. Though this will be one of the UFC’s last UFC events of the year, with these two fast pace fighters headlining, it probably won’t be the least. Both fighters are on an impressive win streak against notable fighters and have already stated that they are ready for war.
No competitor in MMA desires to be on the losing end of a record-breaking performance. In the case of Donald Cerrone, he didn’t take his loss to Nate Diaz at UFC 141 well, and it certainly showed in his outstanding performance against Jeremy Stephens at the UFC on Fuel 3 event Tuesday night. Cerrone is back in the saddle, so to speak, as he picked Jeremy Stephens apart in their hotly contested bout main card bout.
CageSport is returning to the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington for Halquist Productions “CageSport XIX” on Saturday, April 28th. The night’s main event will feature unbeaten lightweight and submission specialist Julian Erosa as he puts his unbeaten record on the line against grizzled veteran Ryan Mulvihill in a five round bout for the vacant CageSport Lightweight title.
“An overnight sensation” is a saying often used in sports to describe an athlete that has come out of relatively nowhere to bust onto the scene literally overnight. Think Jon Jones after he submitted Jake O’Brien at UFC 100 or Ronda Rousey’s Strikeforce debut against Sarah D’alelio. After the quarterfinal round of the lightweight tournament at Bellator 62, you can add the name Lloyd Woodard to that list.
Let’s try this again. According to Fighters Only, lightweights Terry Etim and Joe Lauzon have verbally agreed to fight at the August 4th UFC on FOX 4 card in Los Angeles. The two had been scheduled to face each other at UFC 118 in 2010 but an injury to Etim forced a replacement.
Two former Bellator welterweight tournament contenders are making the drop to 155 lbs. to compete in this season’s lightweight tournament that starts at tonight Bellator 62. As if the new weight cut wasn’t enough, both fighters will also be facing Bellator newcomers, which should make for some great quarterfinal round action.
What a mess the season five heavyweight tournament has turned out to be. It all started with eight heavyweights with Eric Prindle and Thiago Santos emerging as the finalists. With a shot at the heavyweight crown, the two fought at Bellator 59 on November 26th, effectively ruining the tournament.
