MMA News – Bellator 81 fight card: lightweight tournament semifinal

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On Friday, November 16, there will be the Lightweight Tournament Semifinal.
In the main event, Rich ‘No Love’ Clementi (45-21-1) will face Marcin Held (14-2-0).
Rich Clementi, who spent eight years in the military with the Navy Seabees, has a 3 wins streak (2 consecutive guillotine choke against Derek Campos and Robert Washington, and a split decision with Alexander Sarnavskiy in the quarterfinal.
Marcin Held is a polish fighter and in his home country, he is defined “the prodigy of Polish MMA”. He comes from 4 wins in a row, including a devastating submission against Derrick Kennington.
In his last match he defeated Murad Machaev at Bellator 77.
The other semifinal will see Dave Jansen vs Ricardo Tirloni.
Dave ‘The Fugitive’ Jansen (18-2-0) is a master of

MMA News – Bellator 77 weigh-in results: Season 7 Lw tournament quarterfinals

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Who will be the number one contender for the Bellator Fighting Championships lightweight title?
Tonight starts the road to Michael Chandler’s belt, with the lightweight tournament quarterfinals.
The champ is undefeated (10-0-0) and in his last match against Akihiro Gono at Bellator 67 showed all his dominance. In a date to be still announced, Chandler is expected to defend his title against Rick ‘Genghis’ Hawn, Bellator Season 6 Lightweight Tournament Winner (final match with Brent Weedman) and former olympic judoka.
Yesterday at Reading Eagle Theater in the Sovereign Center Reading, Penn, all the pretenders made weight, including big-show veteran Rich Clementi (155 pounds) and undefeated (20-0-0) prospect Alexander ‘Tiger’ Sarnavskiy (155.6 pounds) (look at