Bellator 61
Date: Mar 16, 2012
Location: Bossier City, Louisiana
Venue: Horseshoe Riverdome
Broadcast: MTV2 and Spike.com



MAIN CARD (MTV2)

Maiquel Falcao vs. Norman Paraisy (middleweight-tourney opening round)
Brian Rogers vs. Vitor Vianna (middleweight-tourney opening round)
Vyacheslav Vasilevsky vs. Victor O'Donnell (middleweight-tourney opening round)
Giva Santana vs. Bruno Santos (middleweight-tourney opening round)

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike.com)

Quaint Kempf vs. Josh Quayhagen
Trey Houston vs. Jeremiah Riggs
Derrick Krantz vs. Eric Scallan
Derek Campos vs. Patrick Cenoble
Jeremy Myers vs. Jason Sampson

The fight card is set for next week's Bellator 61 event. The event features the opening round of the season-six middleweight tournament, as well as a season-five heavyweight-tourney rematch between Eric Prindle and Thiago Santos. Five bouts also are slated for the prelims. Bellator 61 takes place March 16 at the Horseshoe Riverdome in Bossier City, La. The night's main card airs on MTV2 (and in high-definition on EPIX), and prelims stream on Spike.com. In the night's featured preliminary-card fight, local lightweight Josh Quayhagen (2-0 MMA, 1-0 BFC) takes on Shark Fights vet Quaint Kempf (4-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC). Quayhagen made a splash in his pro-MMA debut when he scored a unanimous-decision victory over kickboxer Cosmo Alexandre at Bellator 52 in October. In other action, undefeated middleweight and former XFL and Strikeforce fighter Trey Houston (8-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC) meets Jeremiah Riggs (7-5 MMA, 1-0 BFC), a fighter on "The Ultimate Fighter 7" and "WWE Tough Enough" cast member whose current five-fight win streak included a decision victory over Mike Fleniken at Bellator 30. Other bouts include welterweights Derrick Krantz (10-5 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Eric Scallan (10-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC), lightweights Derek Campos (9-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Patrick Cenoble (8-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC), and bantamweight Jeremy Myers (3-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Jason Sampson (8-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC).

Originally Posted by Fedornumber1! (Post 1562504) Is Jeremy the first guy from this forum to fight in a big org like this?

Originally Posted by hixxy (Post 1562503) Prindle is sick apparently and bout will be nixed once the commission confirm this..

Friday's Bellator 61 event has lost a headliner. Heavyweight Eric Prindle (7-1 MMA, 3-0 BFC) is suffering "flu-like symptoms" following a heavy weight cut is unable to compete in tomorrow's main event with with Thiago Santos (10-1 MMA, 2-0 BFC), sources close to the event today confirmed with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). MMAjunkie.com reached Alvin Topham, the chairman of Louisiana Boxing & Wrestling Commission, who said he was en route to today's weigh-ins and will make an official decision with Bellator officials once there. However, Bellator CEO today told our sister site, USAToday.com, the fight is canceled and will be pushed back a week to Bellator 62. A middleweight-tournament bout between Maiquel "Big Rig" Falcao and Norman Paraisy has taken the headlining spot for Bellator 61. Bellator 61 takes place Friday at the Horseshoe Riverdome in Bossier City, La. As with all of Bellator's season-six events, the night's main card airs on MTV2 (and in high-definition on EPIX). Prindle and Santos, of course, met in the finals of Bellator's season-five heavyweight tourney this past fall, but the bout was ruled a no-contest when Santos inexplicably kicked a downed Prindle in the groin. "Big Monster" contended he was targeting Prindle's backside, but his opponent could not continue after the blow. The winner of the fight was expected to face Bellator heavyweight champ Cole Konrad in a title fight later this year.