February 19, 2016 | Toyota Center | Houston, Texas
Main Card Spike, 9 p.m. ET
Royce Gracie vs. Ken Shamrock
Kimbo Slice vs. Dhafir Harris
Emanuel Newton vs. Linton Vassell
Derek Campos vs. Melvin Guillard
Daniel Pineda vs. Emmanuel Sanchez
Preliminary Card MMAjunkie, 7 p.m. ET
Juan Torres vs. Justin Wren
Jeremy Mahon vs. Davis Sylvester
James Christopherson vs. Charlie Ontiveros
Ruben Esparsa vs. C.J. Hancock
Daniel Santos vs. Adrian Yanez
Richard Knepp vs. Isaac Villanueva
Mike Trinh vs. Angel Zamora
Anthony Ivy vs. Jason Langellier
Manny Lozoya vs. Jacob Norsworthy
This is a sad, sad main event and co main. Actually having kimbo in a professional organization is far sadder than two old guys looking for a paycheque. My bad.
I don't think Kimbo's the worst. I'd say he'd have a shot against one or two UFC guys. He's a bit on the old side but he's still got a few fights under his belt.
Ken/Gracie and Dada are all much worse. I'm going to watch it but I like a freakshow fight. I liked Kimbo/Ken.
This is hilarious. Can't believe this is a card provided by a legit MMA organization in 2016. I'll watch the main and co-main after it, but this is dire stuff.
I was actually thinking the other fights were better. The Co-Main/Main is a freakshow.
Bellator really ought to be moving away from this kind stuff. If you must have a freakshow then at least put it at the bottom of the card. How are you ever going to come across as the No.2 org when your main events are 2 street fighters and 2 old men.
I like the freak show fights idea. But freak show fights should be a co-main. If you're tuning in to watch Royce and Ken, you'll stick around for the main event. If that main event has Will Brooks win dominantly, boom, plenty of people just say a guy with gold looking great. Instead of making freak shows the main attraction, Coker should be using them to sell the legitimate fighters.
But he's not. And Rebney was completely focused on guys like Chandler and Warren and really put a lot of time and stock into the Bellator 'legends' so it's a shame they're all taking a back seat now.
I'm looking for Royce to get the first KO of his career and move on to face Sakuraba at a huge stadium event in Japan with Wandy vs Fedor......
it's like Earth2.
You deserved every second of those Bellator. I feel like the co-main and main event, both on paper and how they ended, have the potential to be promotion breaking. This is the kind of thing you look back at and think "Yeah, that's where it started".
Bellator's future currently looks bright, but something like this doesn't bode well at all.
Outside of the top 2, the rest was mainly "okay". I mean, Justin Wren fight was boring as hell outside of hilarious in-fight commentary from Juan Torres. CJ Hancock fight was absolutely hilariously bad. Best fight easily was Guillard and Derek Campos.
Spike just started televising this card a little over an hour ago for me. Since I already know the outcomes, I doubt I'll make it to the two joke fights. Sleep sounds like a better alternative.
Seriously, did anyone actually think those two fights were going to be anything other than what they ended up being?
Depending on how you looked at it one could say they saw a solid fight between two street brawlers who actually integrated MMA aspects into the bout. One could also say it was two "pro" fighters who showcased very rudimentary aspects of mma reminiscent of early days of MMA. I preferred to look at it from the former so in that regards I thought it was somewhat entertaining.
Shamrock vs Gracie was like watching a cool movie from the past that simply doesn't hold up today in terms of special effects. Poor Ken's always complaining. I thought he'd press the action. Not a quality card imo for Bellator.
Still wondering if the disability tag in Dada's van leading into the fight wasn't a warning sign.
Clips of Dada's training might have been another warning sign.
It looked like neither Dada, his corner or anyone training him know anything about cutting weight or nutrition. They tried to cut weight despite not knowing anything about it.
Had this event on at the bar. For some reason people where loving Kimbo Vs Dada. It got the most positive reaction of all the fights. Almost every guy there where on their feet.
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