Bellator 131

2014 MMA fight – Tito Ortiz vs Stephan Bonnar – full fight Video Bellator 131

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Fight rated 3 stars by AllTheBestFights.comReview: 2014-11-15, pretty good fight between Tito Ortiz and Stephan Bonnar: it gets three stars. The former Ufc light-Hw champion Tito Ortiz entered this fight with a professional mma record of 17-11-1 (71% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.15 light heavyweight in the world, he is 39 years old (two years older than Bonnar) and he had retired from mma in 2012 after three consecutive losses in the Ufc (the last one against Forrest Griffin, Griffin vs Ortiz 3) but he came back to fight in 2014 under Bellator promotion beating Alexander Shlemenko (=Shlemenko vs Ortiz).
His opponent, the black belt in Bjj and tae-kwon-do Stephan Bonnar, has an official record of 15-8-0 (67% finishing rate) but he is not ranked as he hasn’t fought since October 13, 2012 when he was defeated by Anderson Silva (=Silva vs Bonnar). Ortiz vs Bonnar is the main event of Bellator 131. Watch the video and rate this fight!

2014 MMA fight – Will Brooks vs Michael Chandler 2 – full fight Video Bellator 131

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Fight rated 2 stars by AllTheBestFights.comReview: 2014-11-15, some good single shots between Will Brooks and Michael Chandler but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two. Will Brooks entered this fight with a pro mma record of 14-1-0 (57% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.10 lightweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Anthony Pettis), he suffered his only defeat in 2013 when he faced Saad Awad for the first time (=Brooks vs Awad I), since then he has fought and won five times taking revenge on Awad in their rematch (=Brooks vs Awad 2) and winning the interim Bellator Lw title against Chandler in their first fight (but it was a controversial split decision, Chandler vs Brooks I).
His opponent, Michael Chandler, has a record of 12-2-0 (83% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.11 in the same weight class but he comes off two consecutive defeats, both controversial split decision: against Eddie Alvarez (=Chandler vs Alvarez 2) and Brooks as we said earlier. Brooks vs Chandler 2 is valid for the vacant Bellator lightweight title; undercard of Tito Ortiz vs Stephan Bonnar – Bellator 131. Watch the video and rate this fight!

2014 MMA fight – Melvin Manhoef vs Joe Schilling – full fight Video Bellator 131

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Fight rated 3 stars by AllTheBestFights.comReview: 2014-11-15, the fight between Melvin Manhoef and Joe Schilling gets three stars thanks to a spectacular finish. Melvin Manhoef entered this fight with a pro mma record of 29-11-1 (93% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he is ranked as the No.35 middleweight in the world, he lost twice in 2013, against Brock Larson (=Manhoef vs Larson) and Mamed Khalidov (=Khalidov vs Manhoef), but he came back to win in 2014 beating Evangelista ‘Cyborg’ Santos (=Manhoef vs Cyborg 2) and Doug Marshall (=Manhoef vs Marshall).
His opponent, the former Glory kickboxing champion Joe Schilling, has an official mma record of 1-3-0 (17-7-0 in kickboxing) but all his mma bouts were held in 2008; he has fought three times under kickboxing rules in 2014 beating Simon Marcus (=Marcus vs Schilling 3) and Wayne Barrett but then he lost to Artem Levin (final of the Glory middleweight tournament, Schilling vs Levin 2). Manhoef vs Schilling is on the undercard of Tito Ortiz vs Stephan Bonnar – Bellator 131. Watch the video and rate this fight!

2014 MMA fight – Mike Richman vs Nam Phan – full fight Video Bellator 131

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Fight rated 2 stars by AllTheBestFights.comReview: 2014-11-15, pretty good finish but it is not enough to get three stars: Mike Richman vs Nam Phan gets two. Mike Richman entered this fight with a record of 17-5-0 (88% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.22 bantamweight in the world while his opponent, the black belt in Bjj, judo and karate Nam Phan, has an official record of 20-13-0 (70% finishing rate). Both fighters have lost and came back to win in 2014: Richman was beat by Goiti Yamauchi but then he defeated Ed West (=Richman vs West), Phan lost to Vaughan Lee and then won over Kenichi Ito and Yuki Baba. Richman vs Phan is on the undercard of Tito Ortiz vs Stephan Bonnar – Bellator 131. Watch the video and rate this fight!

2014 MMA fight – Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal vs Joe Vedepo – full fight Video Bellator 131

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Fight rated 2 stars by AllTheBestFights.comReview: 2014-11-15, fight not particularly exciting between Muhammed Lawal and Joe Vedepo: it gets two stars. Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal entered this fight with a mma record of 13-4-0 (77% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he is ranked as the No.18 light heavyweight in the world, he has fought three times in 2014 beating Mikhail Zayats (=Lawal vs Zayats) and Dustin Jacoby (=Lawal vs Jacoby) but between these two bouts he lost to Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (=Rampage vs Lawal).
His opponent, Joe Vedepo, has an official record of 17-8-0 (82% finishing rate), he suffered three consecutive defeats between 2012 and 2013 but he came back to win in 2014 defeating Ben Crowder, Cortez Coleman and Davin Clark. Lawal vs Vedepo is on the undercard of Tito Ortiz vs Stephan Bonnar – Bellator 131. Watch the video and rate this fight!