Bellator on Spike Season 1

Spiritwolf and fouls...

truth

Man, Bellator can re-air all their prelims and they'll still struggle to fill out this 2 hour timeslot

Good first round both guys brought it.

Couldn't believe Martinez or Wiuff can fight at 205 but that was a sweet end.

I give the fight to Held

3rd round was pretty much all Jansen defending leg locks. Whoever wins though, so does Chandler. Love Held's leg lock game though.

Couple of chick fights next week, I will be shocked if Felice Herrig vs Heather Clark is not broadcast on Spike.

Another sleeper card for the most part, but then again so was last nights....

BELLATOR 94
Date: March 28, 2013

MAIN CARD (Untelevised)
Saad Awad vs. David Rickels - lightweight tournament final
Emanuel Newton vs. Mikhail Zayats - light heavyweight tournament final
Trey Houston vs. Luis Melo

PRELIMINARY CARD (Untelevised)
Shah Bobonis vs. Joe Taimanglo
Heather Clark vs. Felice Herrig
Jessica Aguilar vs. Patricia Vidonic
Rob Horton vs. Augusto Sakai
(James) Edson Berto vs. Bruno "B.C." Carvalho
Ivan Devalle vs. Rory Shallcross
Patrick Cenoble vs. Tony Fryklund
Kenny Moss vs. Julien Williams

http://www.mmaweekly.com/bellator-93-shows-promotion-carving-its-tv-ratings-niche-as-season-8-enters-home-stretch

Bellator’s eighth season is heading into the home stretch, and appears to have found its audience for its first run on Spike TV.

Bellator 93 took place Thursday night, drawing an audience of 748,000 viewers, according to MMAWeekly.com industry sources. That was nearly identical to Bellator 92’s 741,000, and just below the season’s average of 789,778 viewers per event.

The season has thus far peaked at just over 900,000 viewers for Bellator 91.

Most week’s, Spike shows an immediate replay following the initial live broadcast. It did so for Bellator 93, and it’s interesting to note the strong the replay showings have been.

Bellator 93 drew 394,000 viewers for the replay, which is over 50 percent as many as watched the live broadcast.

http://www.mmajunkie.com/news/2013/03/if-victorious-at-bellator-94-ronnie-mann-gets-bantamweight-tourney-slot?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

If victorious at Bellator 94, Ronnie Mann gets bantamweight-tourney slot[i]

Ronnie Mann (21-5-1 MMA, 3-2 BFC), a late addition to Thursday's Bellator 94 card, is a win away from earning a slot in a future bantamweight tournament.

The two-time featherweight-tournament competitor will get a shot in a 135-pound tourney if he gets by Rodrigo Lima (10-1 MMA, 0-1 BFC), Bellator CEO and Chairman Bjorn Rebney today tweeted.

"Bellator 94: Awad vs. Rickels" takes place at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Fla. Mann vs. Lima kicks off the Spike TV-televised main card, which follows prelims on Spike.com.

Mann vs. Lima is slated as a bantamweight bout.

As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) recently reported, Bellator plans to host tournaments in the bantamweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight divisions this summer, though an exact schedule hasn't been announced.

Mann makes the move to bantamweight after a lengthy run at 145 pounds that included failed bids at Bellator's Season 6 and 2011 "Summer Series" featherweight tournaments. The well-rounded Mann also boasts previous stints with World Victory Road/Sengoku, Shark Fights (where he was a champ) and Cage Rage, among others. Most recently, Mike Corey bounced him from Bellator's Season 6 featherweight tournament via decision.

MMMMMmmmMMMM Felice in dat teacher outfit. She's bout to rape that bitch.

That other bitch wearing heels? Weird.

Newton bout to get the tourney title, he was robbed of the HW tourney title.

Newton never fought in the HW tournament.

Saad Awad vs. David Rickels - lightweight tournament final
Emanuel Newton vs. Mikhail Zayats - light heavyweight tournament final

Very good first round

Mann vs. Lima

30-27 Lima

Good performance all around. I thought he should have got the decision against Nakamura a couple seasons back as well.

Trey Houston got destroyed...i don't think he truly recovered from the nut shot. Guys should really take their time. That was a pretty big kick to the nuts and he didnt even take a minute.

Late to the party, half way through the second fight. Tourney qualifiers going all out. Anyone see the prelims?

Waaat the fuck was that celebration? Weirdness

only saw the replay of Berto-Carvalho...and that was pretty awesome

Bout to watch that right now

Very nice by berto

That is a bullshit call by Waugh right there. Robbed IMO. The fight was gonna be even going into the last round.

I guess i can see why Waugh made the call...but he was alright. He should have tried to communicate with him. Fighters rest for a second at the end of the round all the time before getting up to go to their corner. Waugh just walked over him and waved it off when it was clear he thought the round was over and was just resting...hurt but good to go.