Bellator 82: Good vs. Koreshkov 170 Final (11/30 on MTV 2)

[EmpireWF]

Friday on MTV 2
Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort

Season 7 Welterweight Tournament Final
Winner Gets $100,000 & Guaranteed Title Fight
Former Champion Lyman Good vs. Andrey Koreshkov

Alex Tiger Sarnavskiy vs. Tony Hervey

Kala Hose vs. Doug Marshall

David Rickels vs. Jason Fischer


PRELIMS
Giva Santana vs. Brendan Seguin
Anthony Bain vs. Mario Navarro
Terry Davinney vs. Matt Van Buren
John Schulz vs. Hector Garcia
Justin Houghton vs. Jeremy Czarnecki

[Liquidrob]

Love the ME, great test for Russian

Glad to see Tiger back fighting so quickly

THW ARM COLLECTOR

[partners panic]

I thought Shawn Bunch, in his MMA debut vs Chad Coon, was also on this card.

[EmpireWF]

I thought Shawn Bunch, in his MMA debut vs Chad Coon, was also on this card.

Think so. There was a fight with a guy having a 0-0 record so I just didn't list it.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Bunch plays it safe, wrestlefucks COON, gets the easy 30-27 win.

Giva Santana, THE ARM COLLECTOR, wins with a sick knee bar. The opponent was smart, he was over compensating for the arm bars, wasn't going to lose that way, so he forced Giva to work for something else. Too much bjj. Awesome fighter to watch work.

[Liquidrob]

THE RHINO cutting the promo, gets the cheap pop for working the Michigan crowd...

[Liquidrob]

Giva by knee bar doesn't even sound right, the leg collector?

[Warner2BruceTD]

Giva by knee bar doesn't even sound right, the leg collector?

If you get a chance to watch, that guy was NOT going to get arm barred. He almost got him early, but the dudes entire gameplan was to make him do something else. So, he did. Made him work, it was fun.

[EmpireWF]

Koreshkov being able to take Lyman down in the 3rd while being gassed and then holding him down for 2 minutes surprised the hell outta me.

Also, what was up with the ref, only after 2 minutes did he begin to warn the Russian he'd stand them up if no action?

Good fight, Lyman took plenty of clean punches to the face but he nearly pulled it out.

[SHOGUN]

After that uppercut Good took in the first, I thought he was a goner but he recovered nicely. Very surprised by him not fighting off Koreshkov's late takedown more. Koreshkov has length combined with hand speed and that is scary. He still gets funkdafied by Askren if they meet up, but there are a lot of exciting fights for him in Bellator's weight class.

I was getting worried about Rickels against Fischer because he was getting bullied by Fischer early and was struggling with the speed difference. He eventually found a bit of a groove, but I did not come away thinking he would really do damage at LW. Fischer impressed me more. Rickel's decision to cut to 155 is a bit weird IMO, because he wasn't all that smaller than Amoussou (and he's not exactly a big WW in his own right). I think that Rickels just needs to work on his wrestling.



Hervey almost broke his neck trying to run up the cage like that. Not a wise move there.

Sarnavskiy was given a layup fight and didn't even try outside of the one armbar attempt. Basically LNP'd.