(Another Bellator show, another epic finish. Yahir Reyes FTW. Video courtesy of youtube.com/BellatorMMA.)
Bellator Fighting Championships‘ sixth installment went down Friday night in Robstown, Texas, featuring the two semi-final fights of their featherwight bracket — both of which produced shocking results. Undefeated tournament favorite Wilson Reis ate his first career loss in an upset against rising star Joe Soto, who stuffed Reis’ takedowns and kept the fight standing where he had the advantage. Soto outstruck Reis to a comfortable unanimous decision, earning the right to face the night’s other big winner, Yahir Reyes, in the tourney’s featherweight finals. Reyes withstood an aggressive showing early on by opponent Estevan Payan — who missed weight by over three pounds — before knocking him into last month with a brilliant spinning-backfist.
Full results from the event are after the jump…
Featherweight tournament semi-finals
- Joe Soto def. Wilson Reis via unanimous decision (30-27 x 3)
- Yahir Reyes def. Estevan Payan via KO (spinning backfist), 1:56 of round 2
Non-tournament bouts
- (FW) Luis Palomino def. Nick Gonzalez via TKO (strikes), 2:13 of round 1
- (MW) Bubba McDaniel def. Chris Spicer via submission (rear-naked choke), 2:53 of round 1
- (FW) Roberto Vargas def. Daniel Pineda via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
- (FW) Jose Santibanez def. Dustin Phillips via submission (rear-naked choke), 3:34 of round 1
- (WW) Hector Urbina def. Ira Boyd via TKO (leg injury), 0:19 of round 1
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Comments
Sun, 05/10/09 - 06:39
Bellator's been putting on some good shows. With a Highlight Reel that is pretty damn good. I hope they can keep it up.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 06:49
Very nice and clean, indeed!
Sun, 05/10/09 - 07:08
Always nice to see some non "big league" fights. Anybody notice how in these smaller shows, less of the victories come by way of the judge's decision? it's nifty
Sun, 05/10/09 - 07:40
I just noticed the mandated registry for comments! WINN!!1 No more Tuf Guy and Caps Lock BS? No more cool COOL 8=====D BS?!! Sweet!!!! There was a glitch though since I didn't get and email confirmation when I tried to register xFenixKnightx. I had to do another email of mine with the crappy ass spaced x FenixKnight x :( Can you guys send me another email so I can use my original name? Please?
Sun, 05/10/09 - 07:41
Nice very nice
Sun, 05/10/09 - 07:47
I like the announcer's comment..."I see a YouTube clip coming here..." or something like that. Imagine Rogan or Goldberg saying that.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 07:50
Yeah Imagine that if it wasnt for UFC not allowing that stuff on youtube! PROMOTE MMA!
Sun, 05/10/09 - 08:04
If you watch closely, it was the elbow that connected and not the fist. Which makes it even cooler.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 08:11
Holy crap! I just checked the replay again at 55-56 sec, and it looks like he hit him square with the elbow and then with the fist. 2 hit combo FTW!
Sun, 05/10/09 - 08:12
Is Bellator like a minor leagues for MMA?
Sun, 05/10/09 - 08:51
Looks like it was the forearm/elbow but either way, great finish. Can't argue with the having another youtube clip prediction either, although pretty much every knockout caught on film will show up there sooner or later. BTW, screw you for demanding punctuation in my password CP. But Yay for the lack of trolls! The biggest problem with free speech is that people use it when they've got nothing to say.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 09:04
Holy hell. That was insane.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 09:25
Beautiful shot. I am loving the round ring without the angle point the octagon has.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 09:54
It sounded ugly. Turn the volume up on this one... ouch
Sun, 05/10/09 - 10:19
This was a huge disapointting card for the Texas boys. All 3 of the Texas favorites lost : ( Urbina made Ira Boyd, who fights out of 10th Planet in Waxahachie, supposedly rolled his ankle in the locker room prior to getting out there and fighting. Spicer getting knocked out, and what they didn't talk about was I think it was Hector Munoz who came in [b]10 pounds[/b] overweight and tried to cut down then had to goto the hospital that day for dehydration.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 10:54
Somewhere on "lawn guyland" The Terra is clapping, hoping that he will not longer be the poster boy for the effectiveness of a spinning back fist!
Sun, 05/10/09 - 10:54
wow, epic spinning hellbow of distructive caranage
Sun, 05/10/09 - 11:30
Change your name noob.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 11:42
I got my mom one of those for Mother's Day. I'm going to give it to her tonight at the Olive Garden when she comes back from the bathroom.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 11:51
wow, thats a sick spinning backfist. Love how he sets it up with a fake kick.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 01:29
Spinning back Fists are not as cool as Reverse Blumpkins!
Sun, 05/10/09 - 01:43
I still can't watch a spinning backfist KO without thinking about granny panties.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 03:12
mmm, blumpkins
Sun, 05/10/09 - 03:30
wow best spinning back elbow i've ever seen
Sun, 05/10/09 - 03:40
Bones Jones's was more impressive !
Sun, 05/10/09 - 03:41
id Bone Jones and it would be Quite Impressive.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 05:49
Holy fuck. That spinning back fist was so pretty it looked like it came right out of a Hollywood movie. I really need to get caught up on all these other promotions. I'm simply missing too much action by restricting myself to the UFC and Affliction.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 06:12
Awesome knock out. Horrible rubber guard though.
Sun, 05/10/09 - 07:26
i Miss the old Action of the comments :-( so slow and boring now...
Sun, 05/10/09 - 07:33
Blumpkin, perhaps you'd feel more @ home back in the /b/tard forums? just sayin'
Sun, 05/10/09 - 08:30
i guess you must be a /b/tard to know what /b/tard forums are cause i have no idea what your talking about...
Sun, 05/10/09 - 09:48
@Blimpkin dude, never mind T1. He is now the biggest fag on this website ever since CAPS LOCK HAL left. All he does is trolls and acts stupid saying gay stuff and trying to provoke other users. Just ignore this douche and he will go away enentually. And by the way you are right, the comments now are pretty dull. Even HAL's trolling was more exciting than what happens now. All this MMA talk comes down to is some guys saying "this was a nice shot" and then 20 guys saying the same shit and some other guys saying random stuff. No discussions or anything, just some random fucktard idiots like T1 trying to look cool and failing. CP just became boring, that's all.
Mon, 05/11/09 - 04:10
SO WHO WANTS TO TALK?
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