Paid Members Egg Shen Posted January 22, 2023 Paid Members Posted January 22, 2023 Bellator's first of 2023... Main Card: Ryan Bader vs. Fedor Emelianenko - Heavyweight Title Johnny Eblen vs. Anatoly Tokov - Middleweight Title Sabbah Homasi vs. Brennan Ward Prelims: Neiman Gracie vs. Dante Schiro Lorenz Larkin vs. Mukhamed Berkhamov Henry Corrales vs. Akmed Magomedov Steve Mowry vs. Ali Isaev Chris Gonzalez vs. Max Roshkopf Grant Neal vs. Karl Albrektsson Alejandra Lara vs. Diana Avsaragov Darrion Caldwell vs. Nikita Mikhailov Jaylon Bates vs. Jornel Lego Isaiah Hokit vs. Peter Ishiguro Ethan Hughes vs. Yusuf Karakaya As per usual, ignore the bout order as they always get listed weird, but the Bellator website only has a 3 fight main card listed, so it'll probably be a swing bout deal. So, the last fight of Fedor Emelianenko. It's a strange one. There's not many of the old Pride guard left, who'd have thought Fedor would be one of the last men standing? he's 46 years old now and has only fought twice in 3 years, but it's safe say that Bellator are doing him a solid here and trying to give the great man a storybook ending. That said, Fedor is coming a pretty legit win over Tim Johnson. Who knows about the actual fight? If one things true of Fedor in recent years, he doesn't hang about and he's never in a dull fight win or lose, something wild always happens. Rewind to the first Bader/Fedor fight for proof of that, Bader KO'd Fedor in 35 seconds, it was sad and I don't think I could handle seeing a similar result. Ryan Bader has resumed his Heavyweight run after a a shitty couple of years at 205 and it probably speaks of the poor level of Bellator heavyweights that Bader is the heavyweight champion there at 40 years old. I'd love to see Fedor somehow pull this off, i'd actually like to see it go longer than a couple of minutes to see some of Fedor's skillset because we don't get to see much of anything outside of looping punches anymore. Smart money has to be on a Bader KO though ? The rest of the night is solid, Eblen/Tokov won't be attracting a ton of attention but that's solid Bellator title fight, then also on the main card you have Homasi/Ward which is just pure violence. I'll add some more thoughts once I do some digging into a few names I don't recognise on the undercard, I just wanted to get a thread up. May even share some Fedor memories heading in. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted January 23, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted January 23, 2023 them poll's going well ? Quote
Dai Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 Fedor still has that power and explosiveness, judging from that Johnson fight. Would be sweet if he could land something in the first minute to finish the fight, otherwise I think Bader will win comfortably. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted January 31, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted January 31, 2023 Confirmation that it will only be a 3 fight main card this weekend. The show is on CBS so it's going to be a different kind of broadcast. Quote
Paid Members JNLister Posted February 1, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 1, 2023 Has BBC Three dropped the Bellator deal? Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 1, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted February 1, 2023 not as far as I know, I think they only use BBC Three for the UK based shows, the rest is on iPlayer. The Paramount+ logo on the poster above only applies to America. Quote
David Posted February 1, 2023 Posted February 1, 2023 Yeah, the majority of Bellator shows are on iPlayer I think. Quote
The Curious Orange Posted February 1, 2023 Posted February 1, 2023 I think the US shows are live on iPlayer only as BBC Three goes off air at 4am - so any overrun would mean having to cut the broadcast or running into watershed issues like that time on channel 5 where they had to switch to Peppa Pig Quote
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted February 2, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 2, 2023 Bader is fucked. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 2, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted February 2, 2023 farm on Fedor ? Quote
Dai Posted February 3, 2023 Posted February 3, 2023 Great video, and really highlights just how special Fedor was. That Pride run, and even those few matches in Affliction, holds a special place in my heart. It was truely a special occasion every time he stepped into the ring back then. Off the top of my head, I can only think of Anderson Silva and Jon Jones in their primes that get close to Fedor's aura of invincibility (Khabib too, but on a much smaller sample). Even against the likes of Nog and Cro Cop, you wouldnt even really think much at all about Fedor losing, it just seemed far beyind the realm of possibility. The fact that the he was always fighting in Japan, and you had no way of watching his fights without spending countless hours waiting for your 700mb download chunks to finish, that just all added to the mystique. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 4, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted February 4, 2023 not quite sure who rocked the underwear best at the weigh-in, my man Fedor or Alejandra Lara? i'll let you lot decide: Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted February 4, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 4, 2023 (edited) Lara vs. Avsaragova, brought to you by PornHub (©wandshogun). I've always thought Lara was gorgeous, and Avsaragova's stunning too. From what I remember, Lara's record isn't too great. I tend to support her not just because she's fit, but because she's a native activist. But it seems like she's just being fed to Avsaragova, who's undefeated. Shame. Edited February 4, 2023 by Carbomb Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 4, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted February 4, 2023 I don't think either are much cop to be honest, but im a fan of Lara ? Quote
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