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By: Rich Hansen, MMATorch Columnist

BELLATOR 125
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
LIVE FROM FRESNO, CALIFORNIA



- Rich Hansen here with tonight's coverage of Bellator 125. Jimmy Smith and Sean Wheelock open up tonight's show with a hard sell on the main event fight between Rhino and Manhoef. The same Melvin Manhoef who holds an 18-second KO over Mark Hunt.

FIGHT ONE: MARTIN STAPLETON VS. GOITI YAMAUCHI (149 LB CATCHWEIGHT)

- 149 lb. Catchweight? How'd that happen? This was supposed to be a featherweight bout, but Stapleton missed weight. This was to be his first fight at Featherweight. The More You Know...

- Jason Herzog is the referee for this fight.

ROUND ONE: Yamauchi pulls guard within ten seconds and goes to rubber guard. He's got an omaplata already. Stapleton is defending it well, at least as far as s submission goes. He's doing a good job of staying close to Yamauchi, and he's out of it. Of coruse, now Yamauchi has his back. Nice sweep, but now he's out of the fire and into the frying pan. Yamauchi has the body lock on, with three minutes to find the rear naked choke. He's under the mouth, but across the chin. He lets go, so as to save energy. Still has the back and the body lock, though. He's across the chin once again. Almost a neck crank, but he lets it go again. Stapleto powers out, but Yamauchi stays on top and has half-guard. Make that side mount. Make that north-south. Macke that Yamauchi has his back again. Make that he has Stapleton's back and body lock. He's got the choke, and Stapleton tapped. That was beautiful.

WINNER: Goiti Yamauchi by submission (rear naked choke) at 4:37 of round one

STAR RATING: (***-) I love watching pure jiu-jitsu. It's admittedly like watching a snake eat a rat in an aquarium. I have my issues, you have yours. Moving on.


FIGHT TWO: JAVY AYALA VS. RAPHAEL BUTLER (HEAVYWEIGHT)

- Ayala is known for his ground and pound, assuming he's known, I mean. Butler is an undefeated former boxer. Connect the dots, children...

- Ayala weighed in at 264 and change. Yeah, he needs to get on top.

- The referee is Marcos Rosales. Yes, THAT Marcos Rosales. The clusterBlank begins now.

ROUND ONE: Ayala lands a hard 1-2 immediately and shoots a double behind it. Ayala has Butler up against the fence with underhooks. Ayala got cut bad, I didn't see how. Ayala with goes way low, lifts Butler over his head, slams him, takes the back, and chokes him out. That was fast. I think Ayala is decent. I think Butler was painted by Andy Warhol...

WINNER: Javy Ayala by submission (rear naked choke) at 1:03 of round one.

STAR RATING: (**) Not much too it. Ayala is aggressive, Butler was hapless. Helpless? Both? Yeah. Both.

- With a TON of time to kill so as to ensure they run 15 minutes past their allotted time, they re-air the prelim fight between Julio Cesar and Poppies Martinez. Cesar has a 10 inch reach advantage. At featherweight. Oh, yeah, um, SPOILER ALERT.

- Cesar is now 30-0.

- Spike just showed Daniel Cormier, Luke Rockhold, and Josh Koscheck sitting cageside, mugging for the camera.


FIGHT THREE: BRIAN ROGERS VS. RAFAEL CARVALHO (MIDDLEWEIGHT)

-Carvalho is making his Bellator debut. Rogers is in his ninth Bellator fight, having gone 4-4 for the promotion. I would have thought this would have been his twentieth Bellator fight. Who knew?

- Rogers was originally to booked James Irvin, then Brett Cooper, but injuries killed both of those bouts.

- Rogers thinks he's the best middleweight in Bellator. Apparently his values his wins over Victor O'Donnell, Vitor Vianna, Dominique Steele (I thought that was the name of one of the US women's gymnastics team), and someone named Adrian Miles more highly than you do.

- Marcos Rosales. Again. Oh California.

ROUND ONE: Rogers really needs to get down to 170. He's so much smaller than Carvalho. Rogers is working hard to get in the phone booth. Rogers lands some big punches and gets a lateral drop. He grabs Carvalho's neck, but Carvalho gets up. Rogers is looking good so far. Carvaho's looking for the Tahi plumb every time Rogers gets close. Carvalho presses Rogers into the cage and lands a knee to the gut. They separate soon thereafter. Step in knee from Carvalho. Rogers eats a stinging jab, and then a big 1-2 that staggers Rogers. Five punches, a knee, more punches, and Rogers drops. Carvalho lands a dozen left hands to Roger's head, and Rosales stops the fight. Rogers is complaining about the stoppage, but he doesn't have a left to stand on (literally for a couple seconds). Those left hands weren't hard, and weren't landing hard, but Rogers wasn't defending.

WINNER: Rafael Carvalho by TKO at 3:06 of round one.

STAR RATING: (**) That was a good little fight. Rogers is bad, and he was having his way for a good portion of the fight, so let's not consider Carvalho good at fighting yet. But fighters don't have to be good to put on an entertaining scrap.

- Spike is now airing the preliminary welterweight fight between Chris Honeycutt and Aaron Wilkinson. It went into the second, so we'll be back in about 15 minutes. Smoke em if you got em.

- Don't smoke.


MAIN EVENT FIGHT FOUR: MELVIN MANHOEF VS. DOUG MARSHALL (MIDDLEWEIGHT)

- Jaosn Herzog is the referee. Don't blink.

ROUND ONE: Touch of gloves. No one knocked out yet. Weird. Rhino eats a big left hand. Manhoef lands a kick right to the midlde of the cup. Whoops. Manhoef kept coming even after he knew what he did. Manhoef lands a strong right hand upon the restart.Rhino keeps coming forward though, but what did you expect? Another big right from Manhoef. Leg kick from Manhoef, and another. Manhoef Lands a giant ovverhand right and Rhino goes face first to the mat. This fight is over. Rhino is unconscious, face down.

WINNER: Melvin Manhoef by KO at 1:45 of round one.

STAR RATING: (*****) Of course.

- Melvin Manhoef earned himself a title shot with that KO. He'll get the winner of next week's fight between Shlemenko and Halsey.




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