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#1 ·
Bellator 41
Date: Apr 16, 2011
Location: Yuma, Arizona
Venue: Cocopah Resort and Casino
Broadcast: MTV2 9 PM EDT



MAIN CARD

* Champ Joe Warren vs. Marcos Galvao (non-title fight)
* Champ Zach Makovsky vs. Chad Robichaux (non-title fight)
* Kenny Foster vs. Daniel Straus (featherweight-tourney semifinal)
* Patricio "Pitbull" Freire vs. Wilson Reis (featherweight-tourney semifinal)

PRELIMINARY CARD (un-aired)

* Rudy Aguilar vs. Carlos Flores
* Tyler Bialecki vs. Anthony Birchak
* Michael Parker vs. Nick Piedmont
* Jose Diaz vs. Alex Garcia


In addition to the night's two non-title fights, Bellator 41 features the semifinal round of the organization's eight-man featherweight tournament, officials today announced.

The bouts include Kenny Foster (9-2 MMA, 2-0 BFC) vs. Daniel Straus (15-3 MMA, 2-0 BFC) and Patricio "Pitbull" Freire (15-1 MMA, 3-1 BFC) vs. Wilson Reis (12-2 MMA, 5-2 BFC).

The event takes place April 16 at Cocopah Resort and Casino in Yuma, Ariz., and the night's main card airs on MTV2.

As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) previously reported, the show also features non-title fights between featherweight champion Joe Warren (6-1 MMA, 4-0 BFC) and Marcos Galvao (9-3-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC), as well as bantamweight titleholder Zach Makovsky (12-2 MMA, 4-0 BFC) vs. Chad Robichaux (11-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC).

The tourney fighters look to punch their tickets to the finale in May. The winner earns $100,000 in total pay and a title shot with Warren later in the year.

Foster picked up his eighth win in nine fights by submitting Eric Larkin in the opening round of the tournament earlier this month. His opponent, Straus, scored a decision win over Nazareno Malegarie for his 11th straight victory overall.

Meanwhile, Freire, who was this past season's tourney runner-up to Warren, scored a third-round TKO of Georgi Karakhanyan in this season's opening round. Reis, a former EliteXC champ and two-time Bellator tournament semifinalist, kicked off his latest tourney wun with a submission victory over Zac George.

For more on Bellator 41, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
I can't wait to see Bellator really start growing to the top, I think they will be the next Strikeforce when they dissolve into the UFC.
 
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#7 ·
Theres many gracie barras in america..and i havent looked on their site, but i dont think that there is any gracie family member at that gym...theres 2 in florida where matt arooyo trains at and the one he teaches at

Everytime I do a jitz tournement they go ******* CRAZY when any of their teamates compete...seriously they are like 10 times louder than every other gym
 
#11 ·
I can't say that Ive encountered anything different of specific, but they have some good jitz..ya know they have a few guys on the number 1 slot in houston when it comes to jitz, but so do a few other gyms, so i can't really say.

From the fights Ive seen of Chad in houston, he's never really stood up with anybody and always looks for td's

Maybe there is someone on this board that trains at a gracie bara gym that can clarify for us!
 
#23 ·
Both of those though were not outright wrong. The first shogun fight had most fans split, while I'm pretty sure most people either had Edgar slightly winning or it being a draw, so that was probably a just result.

This though, especially the 30-27, was really bad.

Although the commentators kept saying the first was close, warren had his back taken twice, got pounded on for a bit, took the hardest shots and really was beaten in that first round. Second was even clearer, and the third was obviously warrens.

Other than that decision though another great event, really like watching the bellator guys, brutal finish from pitbull.
 
#28 ·
kantowrestler said:
Ok, let me come up with some other examples. Hamill versus Bisping is a good one where Hamill clearly got wrong. Also, Caol Uno versus Spencer Fisher, where clearly Uno won but was robbed.
Yes, there are many examples of bad judging out there, but that doesn't excuse this one.

kantoFedornumber1! said:
This is just another reason as to why we need fighters as judges...I was fast forwrding through the descision because i "knew" Warren lost and then I saw his hand get raised and was like wtf mate
Yeah, kind of the same here. It was like I knew Warren was gonna get a gift. You could feel it.
 
#31 ·
Exactly. And I mean that literally, it literally is beyond stupidity.

I'm getting sick and tired of this ridiculous sense of optimism from MMA fans, that they won't even dare think their beloved sport has any fixed fights. Like it is just impossible and even at the absolute worst, we should just write it off as incompetence.

Horseshit. Absolute horseshit.

All the excuses in the world can't make up for the fact that my grandmother, literally, my grandmother would've scored the 2nd round for Galvao, despite knowing nothing of the sport and not liking fighting in general.

It's as if we have some off idea that literally every person in the world that watched that fight can judge it properly except the three guys that are licensed to do so. As if we have some idea that the "incompetent" judges are the least qualified guys on the planet and have never watched the sport or know nothing of it when they are filling out these cards.

As if in Penn-Edgar I, Douglas Crosby a mainstay of the NJSAC for YEARS, suddenly became "incompetent" with his 50-45 scorecard that just so happened to be in favour of a New Jersey native.

Yes, incompetence.

Give me a ****ing break.

The fix was in, and it makes me quite sick.
 
#33 ·
Ok, I don't think this has anything to do with gambling. Even if it does the worst thing that can really happen is that the commission changes it to a no contest cause both fighters went out there and gave it their all. We may or may not find out if this was gambling in the following weeks but I highly doubt it.
 
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