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Back at Bellator 120, the promotion’s first and only PPV to date, Bellator middleweight champion Alexander Shlemenko took on former Ufc light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz in a non-title bout, and lost handily. He was out-sized, out-muscled, taken to the ground, and quickly submitted; still stunned as Ortiz began his grave digger routine in the middle of the Bellator cage. It was a fight that Shlemenko had supposedly asked for (though we won’t put it past the promotion to have put him up to it), and it revitalised Ortiz’s career, at least until the outcome of Ortiz vs. Bonnar in November.
In the meantime, one of Bellator’s most lauded champions wound up with an ugly loss on his record, and for what? To job to a fading star in a match where he was at a great physical disadvantage?
Had Shlemenko won we’d...
Back at Bellator 120, the promotion’s first and only PPV to date, Bellator middleweight champion Alexander Shlemenko took on former Ufc light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz in a non-title bout, and lost handily. He was out-sized, out-muscled, taken to the ground, and quickly submitted; still stunned as Ortiz began his grave digger routine in the middle of the Bellator cage. It was a fight that Shlemenko had supposedly asked for (though we won’t put it past the promotion to have put him up to it), and it revitalised Ortiz’s career, at least until the outcome of Ortiz vs. Bonnar in November.
In the meantime, one of Bellator’s most lauded champions wound up with an ugly loss on his record, and for what? To job to a fading star in a match where he was at a great physical disadvantage?
Had Shlemenko won we’d...
- 9/26/2014
- by Jay Anderson
- Obsessed with Film
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