Bellator 290: Bader vs. Emelianenko 2

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Vandal is such a jerk🤦🏼‍♂️

Mowry vs. Isaev
Ali Isaev, TKO, R2
🔥🔥🔥

Hughes vs. Karakaya
Ethan Hughes, TKO, R1
yusuf hasnt fought in 3 years

Gonzalez vs. Rohskopf
Chris Gonzalez, TKO, R1
chris is very good and his only two Ls are to beats max is still unproven

Mowry vs. Isaev
Steve Mowry, TKO, R1
with the long layoff from Ali im taking Mowry i dont think its a good matchup for Mowry but with that being said their Hws and i think he can capitilize before ali wears off the ring rust

Hokit vs. Ishiguro
Isaiah Hokit, TKO, R2
another easy w for hokit

Caldwell vs. Mikhailov
Nikita Mikhailov, DEC
caldwell is on the decline and nikita seems pretty decent

Larkin vs. Berkhamov
Lorenz Larkin, DEC
after the last fight i have to take Larkin

Gracie vs. Schiro
Neiman Gracie, SUB, R2
should be easy for gracie

Fedor in his prime was the most well rounded, most savage fighter of all time. A decade undefeated as an undersized heavyweight against all of the biggest and best fighters at the time. He's beaten more UFC heavyweight champions than anyone else in MMA history.
Fedor in his prime would have beat crackhead steroid cheat Jon Jones. If Vitor, a natural middleweight was able to almost break jones' arm imagine what Fedor would have done. He'd either rip his arm off or catch him with a Russian bomb. Jones and his steroids wouldn't be able to keep the distance forever against a prime Fedor. Guarantee it. 
Of course tho, Fedor is fair complected so the entire community will probably undermine him and pretend he doesn't exist. Much like they do to GSP even tho he has a better and more accomplished resume than steroid boy jones. People pretend Stipe doesn't exist either even tho he doubled every other ufc heavyweight champ in title wins and defenses. This sport used to be so much better.

Now we got champs like aljo, leon, overrated pereira, 3rd rate jamahal hill.... and heavyweight doesn't even have a champ anymore. Dana was too busy trying to wrestle the belt away from Stipe the ufc heavyweight goat that he got a worse option in Ngannou. lmao

* Edited at 01.24.2023, 11:51 PM ET *

can someone ban this racist weirdo

"omg we once had white champs, now we have black champs! badd!!!" 

shut the **** up you insecure social outcast

It’s anal******* on a burner kinda shocked he hasn’t been banned yet 

It's just race baiting lol, he just takes it to a greater extent than normal

 Ryan Bader   vs.   Fedor Emelianenko
  Ryan Bader

Johnny Eblen   vs.   Anatoly Tokov   
  Johnny Eblen

Sabah Homasi   vs.   Brennan Ward   
  Sabah Homasi
   
Diana Avsaragova   vs.   Alejandra Lara
  Diana Avsaragova

Chris Gonzalez   vs.   Max Rohskopf
Chris Gonzalez

Jaylon Bates   vs.   Jornel Lugo   
Jornel Lugo

Henry Corrales   vs.   Akhmed Magomedov   
Akhmed Magomedov   


Steve Mowry   vs.   Ali Isaev 
ALI 48/52
Darrion Caldwell   vs.   Nikita Mikhailov   
Nikita Mikhailov


Lorenz Larkin   vs.   Mukhamed Berkhamov   
  Mukhamed Berkhamov

Neiman Gracie   vs.   Dante Schiro 
50/50

Isaev better not ******* pull out, this card is my birthday gift since the UFC is gonna put on mid **** at 2am which is the equivalent of receiving socks as a present

Hoping Fedor make his last fight a win.  I've seen him fight three times around Chicago.

I'm more hoping Fedor just doesn't get knockout in under a minute like  the last time he fought Bader, Honesly if this is a good fight it be a win for me, MMA is more then just wins and loses sometime

Bader vs. Emelianenko II
Fedor Emelianenko, TKO, R1
A guy can dream alright?

I'd advise anyone planning to include Hokit in any big parlays to reconsider after what happened to Downey. Lots of these university wrestling stars coming into Bellator on dodgy lines.

* Edited at 01.25.2023, 7:38 PM ET *

Eblen vs. Tokov
Anatoly Tokov, TKO, R4
I've been waiting for this moment for years. Tokov isn't a joke

I doubt Hokit will ever have odds of -700 or similar again until he shows something else in his fights. But in his last fight Hokit dismantled a guy with an undefeated record and roids acne, which was supposed to expose his ''weak chin'' again, it turned out that in the second round Hokit gave him a real beating in striking (he didn't show spectacular KO Power, but it made him look really bad in the trade). It is true that the jaw is not trained (the issue of KOs is a more cerebral issue) but I think people are very suspicious of a man who was knocked out in his first punch with MMA Fighter when his entire wrestling career was clearly not prepared. to receive a punch in the face.
After his defeat, he kept training and clearly his reflexes and defensive instincts have improved, after the lose he really knows than his opponents can throw punches to his face and what that really means.

Not gonna lie, UFC keeping their event at a 10pm start time to compensate moving the event out of South Korea is huge for Bellator next weekend.

This is about as stacked as a Bellator card can possibly be and it won't have to compete with the UFC for views. 

* Edited at 01.27.2023, 1:00 PM ET *

my bookie is offering 1.63 on bader

don't really like betting on fights this far out from an event but when I see free money presented to me, I can't help but take it

Bates vs. Lugo
Jornel Lugo, DEC
poo