Bellator 111 - Dantas, Johnson, Graham, Volkov

Date: Friday, March 7th
Preliminary Card (Spike.com): 17:30 LP.net / 3:30pm PST / 6:30pm EST Bellator 111 live stream
Main Card Time (Spike TV): 20:00 LP.net / 6pm PST / 8pm EST (10pm tape delay on West coast)
Live Streams: Live on Spike TV - http://www.vipbox.tv (All MMA events are listed under the UFC button. Press the UFC button and you'll see the event in the list.)





Main Card (Spike TV)

Eduardo Dantas (15-3) vs. Anthony Leone (13-6) (Bantamweight Championship)
Lavar Johnson (17-8) vs. Ryan Martinez (10-3) (Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinals)
Peter Graham (9-6) vs. Mighty Mo (5-2) (Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinals)
Alexander Volkov (19-4) vs. Mark Holata (12-4) (Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinals)

Preliminary Card (Spike.com)

Blagoi Ivanov (9-0) vs. Rich Hale (21-6-1) (Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinals)
Daniel Miller vs. Cortez Coleman (Middleweight)
Javy Ayala vs. Eric Prindle (Heavyweight)
Abdul Razak vs. Matt Jones (Catchweight)
Brent Primus vs. Chris Jones (Lightweight)
Treston Thomison vs. Stephen Banaszak (Featherweight)
Justin McNally vs. Chris Gutierrez (Bantamweight)

Other

- Bellator 111 will feature a Bellator Bantamweight Championship bout between Eduardo Dantas and 2013 Summer Series Tournament winner Rafael Silva. However, Silva was forced to pull out of the bout due to injury, and was replaced by Anthony Leone.

Only picking the fights you can currently bet on:

• Dantas > Leone (ITD)
• Martinez > Johnson (ITD)
• Mo > Graham (Mo's ML and o1.5 rounds)
• Volkov > Holata (Haven't seen Holata fight in awhile, so not confident in this pick)
• Hale > Ivanov (Hale is much taller, has a much longer reach, faster, better jab, better footwork, and has way better cardio. Ivanov has looked like shit in his 2 return fights to MMA after he got stabbed in a Bulgarian bar fight.)

Rich Hale at plus money is good, even at even money is good imo. I'd probably wait till tomorrow to bet it though, as people might put in some late bets on Ivanov due to his record and streak, while Hale has lost his last 2 in a row.

Both Hale and Ivanov's fights in Bellator are available on YouTube.

I would probably never bet against Ivanov in Bellator since there is simply no one that can knock him out and almost the same goes for submission. Would probably lose 80% of decision fights tho cuz his cardio sucks ( stnd thing for bulgarian sportsmen mainly because they re all retarded and prefer to get smashed every Fri & Sat nights ). Anyway what I mean is this is not a fight you wanna bet at all

On March 07 2014 04:35 Spitfiree wrote: I would probably never bet against Ivanov in Bellator since there is simply no one that can knock him out and almost the same goes for submission. Would probably lose 80% of decision fights tho cuz his cardio sucks ( stnd thing for bulgarian sportsmen mainly because they re all retarded and prefer to get smashed every Fri & Sat nights ). Anyway what I mean is this is not a fight you wanna bet at all

I was high on Ivanov when he first came to Bellator, but he has fought like shit in his 2 fights after recovering from being stabbed. Hale continues to improve his skill set, and he would have beaten Ivanov if they fought in 2013. If Ivanov shows up looking the same as last year, he'll lose.

Gogo Anthony!

my str conditioning coach in phuket, super epic dude

Prelims: http://www.spike.com/shows/bellator-mma/live

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Well damn... Rich Hale didn't do anything in his fight, wtf happened...

The main card was more entertaining than a lot of UFC events. Great submission for Dantas btw.