nah-shon burrell vs dante rivera added to bellator 108

Patricio Freire and Justin Wilcox will vie for Bellator’s Season 9 featherweight tournament crown on Nov. 15.

Promotion officials revealed the complete Bellator 107 lineup on Monday. The event takes place at Revel Atlantic City in Atlantic City, N.J., and is headlined by a middleweight title tilt between Alexander Shlemenko and Doug Marshall. The evening’s main card also includes a bantamweight scrap between Marcos Galvao and Tom McKenna, as well as a welterweight showdown pitting Nah-Shon Burrell against Dante Rivera.

Freire began his tournament run with a first-round knockout of UFC veteran Diego Nunes on Sept. 13 before taking a unanimous verdict over Fabricio de Assis Costa da Silva earlier this month. “Pitbull” is 8-2 under the Bellator banner overall, with his only losses coming to Joe Warren and Pat Curran.

A member of the American Kickboxing Academy, Wilcox punched his ticket to the 145-pound final by submitting Akop Stepanyan at Bellator 99 and outpointing Joe Taimanglo at Bellator 103. The Strikeforce veteran has gone the distance in nine of his 13 career triumphs.

Galvao will be making his first Bellator appearance since being knocked out by Nova Uniao teammate Eduardo Dantas in a 135-pound title bout in February. Since that defeat, “Loro” notched a second-round TKO triumph over Shely Santana at Shooto Brazil 40 in June.

A two-time veteran of the Super Fight League, McKenna will be making his promotional debut against Galvao. Six of the Louisville MMA product’s seven career victories have come by way of submission.

Burrell was released by the UFC earlier this summer after posting a 1-1 record with the Las Vegas-based promotion. The 23-year-old debuted in the Octagon with a decision triumph over Yuri Villefort before dropping a three-round verdict to Stephen Thompson at UFC 160.

Rivera is looking to rebound from a decision loss to Lyman Good in his initial Bellator foray. The 38-year-old’s lone UFC appearance came in June 2008, when he lost to Matt Riddle at “The Ultimate Fighter 7” finale.
 
Happy to see Nah-Shon getting a decent fight. Don't understand why the UFC let him go.
 
Nah is a good fighter,rooting for him
 
Burell missed weight twice and his UFC fights were pretty boring. It made sense to cut him
 
MAIN CARD:

Bellator Middleweight World Title Fight:
Alexander Shlemenko (48-7) vs. Doug “The Rhino” Marshall (18-6)

Bellator Featherweight Tournament Final:
Patricio Pitbull (20-2) vs. Justin Wilcox (13-5)

Bantamweight Feature Fight:
Marcos Galvao (14-6-1) vs. Tom McKenna (7-3)

Welterweight Feature Fight:
Nah’Shon Burrell (9-3) vs. Dante Rivera (15-7)

PRELIMINARY CARD:

Welterweight Feature Fight:
Chip Moraza-Pollard (7-4) vs. Sam Oropeza (8-2)

Light Heavyweight Feature Fight:
Jason Lambert (26-12) vs. Tom DeBlass (8-2)

Featherweight Feature Fight:
Kevin Roddy (13-14-1) vs. Will Martinez (6-2-1)

Light Heavyweight Feature Fight:
Najim Wali (3-2) vs. Liam McGeary (6-0)

Lightweight Feature Fight:
Anthony Morrison (17-10) vs. Kenny Foster (10-7)

Featherweight Feature Fight:
Dan Matala (debut) vs. Ryan Cafaro (debut)

Bantamweight Feature Fight:
Sergio da Silva (1-4) vs. Rob Sullivan (2-1)
 
0PS said:
Burell missed weight twice and his UFC fights were pretty boring. It made sense to cut him
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What are you on about, his first fight was good in the ufc. And in his 2nd fight he showed great sweeps and getting up from takedowns, not sure you can justify cutting him when he was 1-1 in the ufc.
 
MANIAC123 said:
What are you on about, his first fight was good in the ufc. And in his 2nd fight he showed great sweeps and getting up from takedowns, not sure you can justify cutting him when he was 1-1 in the ufc.
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Yeah his first fight was one of the best this year IMO. 0PS clearly didn't see it.
 
Jason Lambert/Tom DeBlass and Anthony Morrison/Kenny Foster are solid matchups.

Will Martinez 3-0 in Bellator.

Liam McGeary returns.
 
Nah-Shon had one of the best most underrated fights of the year with Yuri Villefort.
 
Weak card. Ok title fight, Pitbull/Wilcox is good, Galvao in a warm up fight, the rest is really lackluster. Liam on the prelims is it.

But this is what this season is since they had to stack the PPV. The spring season should be much better.
 
I was a fan of Burrell in his UFC fights, honestly after that Villefort fight he deserved a third fight at least. But solid addition for Bellator, this is a pretty meh card. Galvao with his job match, but Pitbull vs Wilcox and Marshall vs Storm is worth it.

Hoping for Pitbull to take it home.
 
I have no desire to watch Rivera. He's 38 and was never very exciting to begin with.
 
CC27 said:
Weak card. Ok title fight, Pitbull/Wilcox is good, Galvao in a warm up fight, the rest is really lackluster. Liam on the prelims is it.

But this is what this season is since they had to stack the PPV. The spring season should be much better.
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Yeah. This season has been completely decimated by the PPV. Pretty sad when this is actually one of the better cards since they announced the PPV. They ruined an entire season of fights for a PPV that will be lucky to get 75K viewers.
 
kjg1672 said:
I have no desire to watch Rivera. He's 38 and was never very exciting to begin with.
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I agree. I remember him from IFL & TUF. He's lame and does nothing. He was a long time MMA/grapling vet and easily lost to Matt Riddle in Matt Riddles UFC/MMA debut.
 
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