News Bellator 273: Bader vs Moldavsky - January 29th 2022

265 lbs.: Ryan Bader (232.2) vs. Valentin Moldavsky (234.4)
135 lbs.: Darrion Caldwell (135.8) vs. Enrique Barzola (136)
170 lbs.: Sabah Homasi (170.8) vs. Jaleel Willis (170.2)
145 lbs.: Henry Corrales (145.8) vs Aiden Lee (145.8)
155 lbs.: Benson Henderson (155.8) vs. Islam Mamedov (155.6)
185 lbs.: Dalton Rosta (184.6) vs. Duan Johnson (185.6)
155 lbs.: Chris Gonzalez (155.6) vs. Saad Awad (156)
205 lbs.: Ben Parrish (205.2) vs. Sullivan Cauly (205.8)
135 lbs.: Nikita Mikhailov (135.6) vs. Blaine Shutt (134)
145 lbs.: Lucas Brennan (145.4) vs. Benjamin Lugo (146)
 
MMALOPEZ said:
265 lbs.: Ryan Bader (232.2) vs. Valentin Moldavsky (234.4)
135 lbs.: Darrion Caldwell (135.8) vs. Enrique Barzola (136)
170 lbs.: Sabah Homasi (170.8) vs. Jaleel Willis (170.2)
145 lbs.: Henry Corrales (145.8) vs Aiden Lee (145.8)
155 lbs.: Benson Henderson (155.8) vs. Islam Mamedov (155.6)
185 lbs.: Dalton Rosta (184.6) vs. Duan Johnson (185.6)
155 lbs.: Chris Gonzalez (155.6) vs. Saad Awad (156)
205 lbs.: Ben Parrish (205.2) vs. Sullivan Cauly (205.8)
135 lbs.: Nikita Mikhailov (135.6) vs. Blaine Shutt (134)
145 lbs.: Lucas Brennan (145.4) vs. Benjamin Lugo (146)
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Always thought Moldavsky was heavier. But he looked lean on the scales, not much fat.
 
Man, I thought the event was today, I was already planning the rest if my day and shit...forgot this event is on Saturday. I guess I'll watch Eagle FC
 
careto said:
Man, I thought the event was today, I was already planning the rest if my day and shit...forgot this event is on Saturday. I guess I'll watch Eagle FC
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Yeah luckily Eagle FC is here to save Friday night. Sergei vs Spong is guaranteed fireworks. There’s just no way the fight can suck.
 
GueseGuy said:
Yeah luckily Eagle FC is here to save Friday night. Sergei vs Spong is guaranteed fireworks. There’s just no way the fight can suck.
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who do you got? Im thinking of putting some money on Spong as I dont think Sergei will even attempt to twke the fight to the ground.
 
careto said:
who do you got? Im thinking of putting some money on Spong as I dont think Sergei will even attempt to twke the fight to the ground.
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I'd bet my house Sergei doesn't even think about grappling. Dude just wants to bang nowadays. All I can think is that standing with Spong in 4oz gloves is extremely inadvisable. Especially when you just got TKO'd by Kongo. But I would never count Sergei out. I just hope it's an absolute bad ass fight. It's a blizzard out here in New England so the whole weekend is a wash so i'll be pasted on my couch just watching fights. Cheers to a good weekend sherbro.
 
GueseGuy said:
I'd bet my house Sergei doesn't even think about grappling. Dude just wants to bang nowadays. All I can think is that standing with Spong in 4oz gloves is extremely inadvisable. Especially when you just got TKO'd by Kongo. But I would never count Sergei out. I just hope it's an absolute bad ass fight. It's a blizzard out here in New England so the whole weekend is a wash so i'll be pasted on my couch just watching fights. Cheers to a good weekend sherbro.
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I wish we had Eagle and Bellator today and some UFC tomorrow, but this should suffice. Man, that sounds like a badass weather to stay home and watch some fights. Bellator has a very solid card tomorrow so I will be getting aure to uave beer and snacks for today and tomorrow.
 
I think Bellator learnt that having very low level regional fights in places with public payouts makes the promotion look bad since these prelims all have guys who I am guessing are on multi-bout contracts that are 10K at least. Blaine Shutt and Ben Lugo are iffy but I am guessing at least 5K for them
 

Get hyped! I kind of wished this fight happened a little further down the road. I think these two have a big future.
 
It's going to be me on a soapbox again. But that's why I don't like the whole "MMA is going to be the next best base" argument. Ben Parrish was, really what I thought he was, a smart striker with a KO punch. Christian Edwards quit wrestling in 6th grade to focus on MMA. Cauley wrestled college. Edwards has good everything and great nothing. He's a good striker, not a great striker, he's a good wrestler, not a great wrestler. It was noticeable against Biyong, Biyong gassed hard at the end of the fight and was a limp doll, and Edwards still didn't have the precision and technique to finish him anywhere. So he elected to stand with Parrish, but again he even lacks elite striking/striking defense, so he got sent to the shadow realm by accident, plus 4-5 hammerfists.

Cauley is relatively new and inexperienced but he has one go-to skill, which is his wrestling. I was afraid he wouldn't use it, but he did. He got Parrish down, negated the KO power, and just pieced him up from there. Finished the fight.

Obviously I have a preference for base. But honestly, if you just have a base, then that's fine enough. Like the past two UFC main events. Giga Chikadze is an elite striker. He'd been wrestled twice in his career, and against Kattar he got wrestled in the first two rounds and then gassed and got worked. But he got to be a UFC top 10 FW in the first place by having that elite skillset, and even though he'd gotten wrestled in the past he'd never been knocked out. Ciryl Gane also came from kickboxing. He's got very good striking defense. He also has never gotten knocked out. Even though his wrestling defense caused him to lose the Francis fight, he made it to the top, at least 5 HWs in the world, simply by having really good striking and striking defense. Maybe he's boring, but he hasn't/isn't going to get knocked out either.
 
I really can't stand Big John or Mauro as commentators, the combination is hard to listen to imo. I remember when Mauro started in Pride and knew literally nothing about mma and obviously he improved but his constant stupid one liners are too much, combined with having little technical knowledge. John just constantly sounding like a know it all. I like both guys, just not as commentators. John is a lot like Frank Trigg or DC as a commentator, they say things all the time like if they landed it'd be over or constantly saying what someone should have done, it's annoying to me. DC doesn't bother me, it's just an example of another "if they just did this" type of commentator.
 
Caldwell on a bad streak… will this be his last fight in Bellator ?
 
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