Bellator 69 - Falcao, Amoussou, Fujii, Aguilar

Date: Friday, May 18th
Preliminary Card (Spike.com): 18:00 LP.net / 4pm PST / 7pm EST Bellator 69 live stream
Main Card (MTV2): 20:00 LP.net / 6pm PST / 9pm EST
Live Streams: Live and Free on Spike.com & MTV2





Main Card (Spike.com & MTV2)

Maiquel Falcao (30-4) vs. Andreas Spang (8-1) (Middleweight Tournament Final)
David Rickels (10-0) vs. Karl Amoussou (14-4-2) (Welterweight Fournament Semifinal)
Megumi Fujii (25-1) vs. Jessica Aguilar (13-4) (Flyweight)
Ron Sparks (8-1) vs. Kevin Asplund (15-1) (Heavyweight)

Preliminary Card (Spike.com & MTV2)

Mark Holata vs. Abe Wagner (Heavyweight)
Andrey Koreshkov vs. Derrick Krantz (Welterweight)
E.J. Brooks vs. Kalvin Hackney (Lightweight)
Josh Burns vs. Rich Hale (Light Heavyweight)
Josh Quayhagen vs. Cliff Wright (Lightweight)
Shanon Slack vs. Booker Arthur (Featherweight)

Other

- With Hector Lombard leaving for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the Middleweight title was vacated. On April 25th, 2012, Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney announced that the winner of the Middleweight tournament finale between Maiquel Falcao and Andreas Spang will face Alexander Shlemenko to crown the company's new Middleweight champion.
- Heavyweights Ron Sparks and Kevin Asplund will compete in a tournament eliminator bout for a spot in the Bellator Season Seven Heavyweight tournament.

Hoping for Spång obviously. Might be hard.

Maiquel Falcao (186) vs. Andreas Spang (185.8) - middleweight-tourney finale
Karl Amoussou (170) vs. David Rickels (170.6) - welterweight-tourney semifinal
Jessica Aguilar (115.6) vs. Megumi Fujii (116)
Kevin Asplund (239) vs. Ron Sparks (264.6)
Josh Quayhagen (158.2) vs. Cliff Wright (155.6) (Quayhagen fined 20% of his purse for missing weight)
Emanuel "E.J." Brooks (156) vs. Kalvin Hackney (156)
Booker Arthur (145.4) vs. Shanon Slack (146)
Andrey Koreshkov (170.8) vs. Derrick Krantz (170.8)
Josh Burns (206) vs. Richard Hale (205.5)
Mark Holata (250.6) vs. Abe Wagner (248.8)

Starts in 2 hours: http://www.spike.com/shows/bellator-fighting-championships/live

Fujii vs. Aguilar = #1 vs. #2 female strawweight (Aguilar is a lesbo irl, so it might get interesting if she mounts Fujii)

i bet on aguilar at +230 here. like her chances. fujii is over the hill and has bad knees

Fujii looked fine in her last fights, I didn't see her knees being a problem like Sakuraba. She shoots fast for takedowns, which Aguilar will have to watch for. Fujii also is an offensive fighters, which I like.

Here's 2 of Fujii's past 3 fights. I couldn't find the one vs. Mika Nagano from the Jewels event.
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Here's 2 of Aguilar's past 3 fights. I couldn't find the one vs. Patricia Vidonic.
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watched the first round of the first fight in your post. megumis shots didnt work, her takedown came from catching a kick and slamming the girl. if megumi wins this fight its because she has better striking than aguilar. i think its a close fight, around 55/45 for megumi. ill take +230 all day there.

I think JAG's striking > Fujii
Fujii ground game > JAG's

Gonna get my hair cut and go to the store, I'll be back in time for the main card.

The following prelim matches might be okay:

Mark Holata vs. Abe Wagner (mid tier HW's)
Andrey Koreshkov vs. Derrick Krantz (Koreshkov is a Russian prospect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Koreshkov )

thought fujii won that, but it was a total coin flip fight. glad i bet at +230

Just got home. I'll have to watch the fights later on MTV. I read the co-main was to close to call.