Bellator 45: 205 Championship & 155 Final - 5/21 on MTV 2

[EmpireWF]

Bellator 45
The Season Four Finale

Saturday, May 21st -2011
L'Auberge Du Lac
Lake Charles, LA

DON'T FORGET -- DOUBLE POINTS IN THE GURU!

Light Heavyweight Championship
Tournament Finals
Christian M'Pumbu vs. Richard Hale

Featherweight Tournament Finals*
Patricio Pitbull Freire vs. Daniel Straus

Thiago Santos vs. Derrick Lewis

Season 5 Middleweight Tournament Qualifier
Karl Amassou vs. Sam Alvey


*Winner will fight Joe Warren for the 145 Championship​

 

[SHOGUN]

Amoussou FTW!

 

[Liquidrob]

Straus is going to give Pitbull a good fight

 

[clovett]

MMAjunkie.com has learned that a previously announced heavyweight bout between Derrick Lewis and Thiago Santos was scrapped after "Big Monster" suffered an injury

 

[SHOGUN]

MMAjunkie.com has learned that a previously announced heavyweight bout between Derrick Lewis and Thiago Santos was scrapped after "Big Monster" suffered an injury

:rage:

I was really looking forward to see him.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

You will receive double points for a correct pick, a wrong pick will still only be 1 point

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

The M'PUMBU victory tour rolls into Louisiana. Its been a long road. Join him in victory.

 

[Liquidrob]

My number 10 ranked 'Fighter' in MMA fights tonight

PATRICIO

 

[JayDizzle]

Time for some more votes, MFers.

 

[EmpireWF]

Sam Alvey

 

[calgaryballer]

I pick M'Pumbu the whole way, not sure why, but I am feeling Hale for this one

 

[SHOGUN]

Nobody picked Straus for the upset? Bizzaro Krazy Horse is a huge FW and has a sizable reach advantage.

 

[SHOGUN]

Amoussou did more damage and was the aggressor, but was always on his back at the end of every round. He needs to work better on his positional control because he was getting reversed repeatedly. In USMMA, position is #1.

BKH underwhelmed.

I can't wait to see how Joe Warren handles Pitbull this time around. He scraped past by the skin of his teeth last time.

I demand more MMA demos from the Bellator ring girls.

M'PUMBU! He jabbed Hale up. If he ever decides to cut weight, I'd love to see him against Lombard.

 

[EmpireWF]

The Bellator girls this season are 100000000x hotter than last season. MTV > Fox Sports!

If you weren't looking at his face, M'Pumbu looked like Anderson Silva. Didn't realize how small he was for a 205er.

Amoussou definitely did more damage but something was off in rounds 2 and 3. Especially in round 3. He wasn't as aggressive as I expected him to be after the first round. Close fight, oh well. Excited to see Hess back in the cage for the tournament.

Give Straus credit with the takedowns, but he wasn't able to keep Pitbull down. Gotta like Freire's chances in the rematch, especially considering Warren lucked out against Galvao.

No more Bellator until the end of June =

 

[Liquidrob]

M'PUMBU, like Shogun said, if he decides to drop the weight would love to see him fight Lombard, tough to keep winning fights when you weigh in at 199 for 205, now that he is the champ though, 5 rounds will help him not get lay and prayed for 3 rounds, he has skills

Pitbull will beat Warren this time, improved wrestling, cardio looked great, wont go crazy and gas himself against Joe, we will pick him apart

I can see why karl lost in the unified rules way, he didnt do much in 2nd and 3rd, always ended on bottom, should have just walled and stalled in the 3rd

 

[SHOGUN]

This .gif is awesome.