Review: 2012-11-02, exciting and tough fight between Ryan Ford and Kyle Baker: it is close to get four stars. Ryan Ford ranked as the No.47 welterweight in the world, entered the fight with a record of 18-4-0 while Kyle Baker had a record of 12-6-0. Ford vs Baker is on the undercard of Thiago Santos vs Richard Hale – Bellator 79. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-11-02, pretty good fight and spectacular finish between Douglas Lima and Jacob Ortiz: three stars. Douglas Lima ranked as the No.22 welterweight in the world, entered the fight with a record of 21-5-0 while Jacob ‘Kobe’ Ortiz had a record of 13-3-0. Lima vs Ortiz is on the undercard of Thiago Santos vs Richard Hale – Bellator 79. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-11-02, good fight between Mike Richman and Shahbulat Shamhalaev: three stars. Mike Richman (13-1-0) entered as the No.33 featherweight in the world while Shahbulat Shamhalaev (10-1-1) entered as the No.84. Richman vs Shamhalaev is the semifinal of the Bellator featherweight tournament; undercard of Thiago Santos vs Richard Hale – Bellator 79. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-11-02, good start and heavy punches between Thiago Santos and Richard Hale but it is not enough to get three stars. Thiago Santos (11-1-0) entered as the No.26 heavyweight in the world while Richard Hale (20-4-1) entered as the No.33. Santos vs Hale is the semifinal of the Bellator heavyweight tournament – Bellator 79. Watch the video!
The Bellator 79 weigh-ins have been completed from Orillia, Ontario for tonight event at Casino Rama, which features the semifinals of the Bellator Season 7 Heavyweight and Featherweight Tournaments.
The main event is Richard Hale (238.4 pounds) vs Thiago Santos (265.2 pounds), Heavyweight semifinal.
Richard ‘Rare Breed’ Hale (20–4–1) in his career has won the Rage in the Cage Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight championships, and in the quarterfinal defeated Mike Wessel by TKO.
Thiago ‘Big Monster’ Santos (11-1-1nc) has a very effective rear-naked choke submission and his huge weight can be an advantage against Hale. In his last two matches, he had a “groin issue” with Eric Prindle: he first gave it at Bellator 59 (= Prindle vs Santos 1), and than
