Bellator 120: Alvarez vs. Chandler III

May 17, 2014 Landers Center Southaven, Mississippi
main CARD
Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET
Eddie Alvarez vs. Michael Chandler
for lightweight title
Quinton Jackson vs. Muhammed Lawal
light heavyweight tournament final
Tito Ortiz vs. Alexander Shlemenko
nontitle fight
Will Brooks vs. Nate Jolly
Michael Page vs. Ricky Rainey

preliminary CARD
Spike TV, 8 p.m. ET
Cheick Kongo vs. Eric Smith
Blagoi Ivanov vs. Alexander Volkov
heavyweight tournament final
Marcin Held vs. Patricky Freire
lightweight tournament final
Mike Richman vs. Goiti Yamauchi

preliminary CARD
Spike.com, 6 p.m. ET
Austin Lyons vs. Zach Underwood
Justin Frazier vs. Mike Wessel
Ben Brewer vs. Andy Uhrich
Anthony Lemon vs. Codie Shuffield
Brian Hall vs. Cortez Phelia

There PPV is cursed

Prelims had some nice upsets.

Michael page winning his way through the next Ww tournament to a fight with lima is a ppv fight. Page seems genuine but his actions in the cage are unprofessional.. lot of talent, looking forward to seeing him in the next tournament.

My feed is crystal clear cause no one knows about this PPV.

It's been entertaining, funny tito interview one of his better combos on the mic

These announcers blow.

This co main just got real interesting

Hate to see that fight end

I hope Rampage shows up.

Looks like Mo got beat up in sparring.

This fight is over already. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Rampage has so many openings but never takes them.

Mo can't hang with Pages punches lol.

So close. Mo wins I think damnit.

HAHAHA WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

The rematch should be 5 rounds!

Wouldn't mind that, I was disappointed their fight Saturday was only three.

I'm glad Page won. I thought the judges were going to give it to Mo though, but I thought Rampage was the better fighter and winner.

Rebney shoots himself in the foot again, it's hard to take him seriously. You push the tournament format so the winner fights the champion. I like it, it's different. But then you go and circumvent it by changing the rules. Now you put Rampage in the tournament knowing he has a chance to win, and after he wins he should face the champion like your set up has been from the start. Rampage has said he doesn't want to fight Newton because they share the same coach. Now you say your not going to force him to fight Newton, so what was the point of the tournament to determine a winner to challenge your champion?

Rampage isn't interested in fighting Newton, he's been saying that. He likes Newton and thinks these titles are for the "Young Cats" in his words. Cited his time as Pride and UFC champion as why he isn't chasing titles anymore, he has nothing to more prove on that front in his mind. He also said if he fought Newton, it would divide their gym and he doesn't want to do that either, doesn't want to ask Antonio McKee, their head corner man, to pick a side for that fight. Rebney would be an idiot to treat fighters like Dana White and it's smart of him to do the opposite of what White has said when he was faced with these same issues in the past, especially if Quinton has no intention of complying anyways. Doing so would be useless and damaging. I think he is interested in finishing Mo, or Tito since he won and called out rampage. Newton will get an opponent soon enough, it just might not be a current tournament winner and that isn't surprising considering the dearth of talent currently in divisions north of 170 for tournaments. There have only been 5 LHW tourneys in 5 years so I wouldn't limit myself to only tournament winners fighting for that title either.

Then change your system and how you determine who gets a title shot. I don't have an issue with Rampage not fighting Newton, the issue I have is that Rampage should have never been in the tournament then. You can't have your whole promotion set up one way then change it the way he has. Shows a lack of credibility. Either have the tournament and follow the rules you set up, or abandon the tournament. He should have just had Rampage not enter the tourney and fight the fights he wanted. I'd be fine with that too, just have an issue with the tourney winner fights the champion except in this case, or this case, or that case.


Not sure how true it is but I heard some higher ups at Viacom are not happy with Bjorn and want him out. We'll see if it's true and how it plays out. I do know that Bellator is crying poverty and doesn't want to pay to drug test their fighters. They only want a few fighters each card tested but not all of them.