Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 3, 2020 Paid Members Posted November 3, 2020 Bellator's Thursday night MMA run continues with one of the weirder main events of 2020... Main Card: Melvin Manheof vs. Corey Anderson Tyrell Fortune vs. Said Sowma Austin Vanderford vs. Vinicius De Jesus Derek Anderson vs. Killys Mota Prelims: Georgi Kharakhanyan vs. Bryce Logan Alex Polizzi vs. Julius Anglickas Janay Harding vs. Jessy Miele Sumiko Inaba vs. Jessica Ruiz Jaylon Bates vs. Joe Supino Ali Zebian vs. Piankhi Zimmerman Definitely thinner than the last few Bellator shows, main card should be a decent couple of hours. That main event though...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted November 3, 2020 Paid Members Posted November 3, 2020 Man, I don't want to see Manhoef getting ground down and wrestlefucked by Borin' 24/7.
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 3, 2020 Author Paid Members Posted November 3, 2020 I just dont understand the matchmaking, its as close to a gimme that they can give Anderson for a debut. Manheof is hugely undersized at 205 and despite winning his last 2 fights Anderson is just the worst possible matchup for him. There may be a small portion of the audience who still tunes in for Manheof because they still think he's the the same killer he was 10/15 years ago (that old Mike Tyson comeback effect) but this is just a weird one. Wonder what the odds are? ...that being said, if Manheof somehow lands a shot to put Anderson out i'll probably shit my pants.
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted November 4, 2020 Paid Members Posted November 4, 2020 Manhoef was LEVITATING in the face-off. Corey 25/8’s fucked. But yeah. I hate this fight.
jimufctna24 Posted November 4, 2020 Posted November 4, 2020 The main card is okay. At least Hubbard, Fortune and Mota are all prospects, rather than has-beens. I actually want Anderson to win the main event, just so Nemkov has someone decent to fight. I don't want him wasting time fighting has-beens.
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted November 5, 2020 Paid Members Posted November 5, 2020 22 hours ago, jimufctna24 said: I actually want Anderson to win the main event This is free on Sky Sports Mix later on by the way, for anyone interested. Like I said before, as a Manhoef fan I loathe this main event but I’ll still have to watch. However unlikely the chances, I’m hoping maybe Big Jan knocked the Fight IQ out of Corey Anderson and he chooses to just stand and trade tonight. With Manhoef’s chin these days that could still end badly for him but his chances obviously go up 50-fold in that kind of fight.
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 5, 2020 Author Paid Members Posted November 5, 2020 custom for me to post one of these before every event now...
jimufctna24 Posted November 5, 2020 Posted November 5, 2020 1 hour ago, wandshogun09 said: 50 Cent? You are slipping, Wand. You used to post gifs of decent rappers.
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted November 5, 2020 Paid Members Posted November 5, 2020 This any better?
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 5, 2020 Author Paid Members Posted November 5, 2020 never seen this clip before, but here's a clip of Melvin Manheof taking control of a situation ?
Zebra Kid Mark Posted November 5, 2020 Posted November 5, 2020 I've set this for record, I do not have high hopes for it at all but if there's a small chance that Corey Anderson gets knocked out I'm going to watch it. I've also never seen Paige's fella fight before so I am quite interested to see if he is any good. The only time I've seen him compete was on Chael Sonnen's Submission Underground promotion.
Zebra Kid Mark Posted November 6, 2020 Posted November 6, 2020 Did anyone catch this? Even in a 2 round main event where he completely dominated, Corey still came across like a boring bastard. It was a complete miss match on paper and sadly it was a miss match in reality. He will probably get a title shot off this performance.
Dai Posted November 6, 2020 Posted November 6, 2020 It was a depressingly predictable result. To be fair, Anderson made it look easy and I thought he looked pretty good, so he does deserve some credit. It was a mismatch, but its still Melvin Manhoef staring across at you when youre on youre feet, and he dealt with him easily. It only took 30 seconds into the first match for me to remember how bad the commentary is. Josh Thompson starts rambling on. Ive had to go back and listen to it again: "Those of you guys listening at home, we want you guys to listen to the fight....because theres a lot of things you will not be able to hear once the pandemic is done. Theres corners coming in. Theres us commentaring (thats the word he actually said), youll probably be able to hear us. Youll be able to hear the fighters respond. So we need to give you guys a moment to listen to this type of action and you can hear the punches and the thuds landing". Of course as soon as he finishes this nonsense, they all just carry on talking as normal, not leaving a moment of dead air so you can 'hear the thuds land'.
jimufctna24 Posted November 7, 2020 Posted November 7, 2020 Nemkov is what makes the top-end of Bellator 205lbs division interesting. If it was just Phil Davis and Anderson battling out for the title, few would care. But as it stands, I am very interested in seeing how Nemkov matches up with Anderson, and how he would compare to Davis in a rematch. Anglickas was the star of this show in my opinion. He has now beaten two of Bellator's undefeated prospects in a row. I don't think he troubles the big 3 at Light Heavyweight, but he's a decent addition to the division.
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