Full Card Finalized For Bellator 128 Friday, October 10th, Emanating From WinStar World Casino & Resort

The Baddest Man On The Planet” Returns as Joe Warren Meets Eduardo Dantas For Bantamweight Title; Michael “Venom” Page Set To Face Nah-Shon Burrell in Co-Main Event

Newport Beach, Calif. (September 16, 2014) – Bellator MMA will return to WinStar World Casino on Friday, October 10^th for Bellator 128 live on Spike TV as Bantamweights Eduardo Dantas and Joe Warren meet to unify the 135 lbs. Bellator Bantamweight Title in the main event of the evening. The night will also feature the return of “MVP” himself Michael Page, as the welterweight battles Nah-Shon Burrell and a full preliminary card.

The event will broadcast live at 9 p.m. EST/ 8 p.m. CST on Spike TV. The preliminary card will be streamed live and free on Spike.com beginning at 7 p.m. EST/ 6 p.m. CST. Tickets for the event are on sale now and can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com or by visiting the WinStar World Casino & Resort Box Office.

Kicking off the Spike.com portion of the night will be a battle of Oklahoma City natives J.C. Cottrell and Jonathan Gary.  Both looking to make their mark in their Bellator debuts, Gary has won three of his previous four fights and has recorded nine wins by KO or submission. Cottrell is coming off a first round submission victory and has posted seven of his 12 professional wins by submission.

Five-time Bellator veteran Cortez Coleman will return to the bright lights and battle William Florentino. Known for his ability to finish fights, Coleman has recorded seven wins by KO or submission, five in the first round. Florentino is ready to get back into the cage after grabbing a decision victory against Guillermo Martinez Ayme in his Bellator debut at Bellator 121 and with four of his five wins coming by submission, Florentino will look to his ground game to take down Coleman.

Oklahoma’s own Treston Thomison will face Cody Walker in a featherweight fight. Walker has recorded all three of his professional wins by submission, but after falling short in his Bellator debut at B121 Walker is looking for redemption against Thomison on October 10^th. Thomison has won four of his previous five fights all by first round KO or submission and is looking for the finish against Walker in front of his home state crowd. 

Rounding out the preliminary card will be a featherweight battle between Emmanuel Sanchez and Stephen Banaszak and former middleweight tournament semifinalist Jason Butcher will meet Andreas Michailidis under the Bellator banner.

Johnathan Martinez will look to maintain his undefeated record in a fight against Brandon Seyler in a flyweight bout and Danny Sykora will face Bellator veteran Jason Sampson in a lightweight battle.

Full fight card listed below.

Main Card:Bantamweight Title Fight: Eduardo Dantas (16-3) vs. Joe Warren (11-3)

Welterweight Feature Fight: Michael Page (6-0) vs. Nah-Shon Burrell (10-4)

Lightweight Feature Fight: Tiger Sarnavskiy (28-2) vs. John Gunderson (35-16)

Middleweight Feature Fight: Bubba McDaniel (22-8) vs. Emiliano Sordi (12-4)

Preliminary Card:Lightweight Feature Fight: J.C. Cottrell (12-2) vs. Jonathan Gary (10-4)
Welterweight Feature Fight: William Florentino (5-3) vs. Cortez Coleman (10-6)
Featherweight Feature Fight: Treston Thomison (8-2) vs. Cody Walker (3-2)
Flyweight Feature Fight: Johnathan Martinez (1-0) vs. Brandon Seyler (2-1-1)

Lightweight Feature Fight: Danny Sykora (7-4) vs. Jason Sampson (10-1)
Featherweight Feature Fight: Emmanuel Sanchez (8-1) vs. Stephen Banaszak (3-3)
Middleweight Feature Fight: Andreas Michailidis (5-1) vs. Jason Butcher  (7-1)

Featherweight Feature Fight: John Teixeira (16-1) vs. TBD

For more information, visit Bellator.com, follow Bellator on Twitter @BellatorMMA, and check out Bellator on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BellatorMMA        

“The Baddest Man On The Planet” Returns as Joe Warren Meets Eduardo Dantas For Bantamweight Title At Bellator 128Friday, October 10 From WinStar World Casino

Michael “Venom” Page Set To Face Nah-Shon Burrell in Co-Main Event

Newport Beach, Calif. (September 8, 2014) – Bellator MMA will return to WinStar World Casino on Friday, October 10^th for Bellator 128 live on Spike TV as Bantamweights Eduardo Dantas and Joe Warren meet to unify the 135 lbs. Bellator Bantamweight Title in the main event of the evening. The night will also feature the return of “MVP” himself Michael Page, as the welterweight battles Nah-Shon Burrell.

The event will broadcast live at 9 p.m. EST/ 8 p.m. CST on Spike TV. The preliminary card will be streamed live and free on Spike.com beginning at 7 p.m. EST/ 6 p.m. CST. Tickets for the event are on sale now and can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com or by visiting the WinStar World Casino Box Office.

Originally scheduled to fight in May of 2014, Dantas withdrew from the fight with a head injury that forced the rising bantamweight out of action for nearly six months. With the injury, former Bantamweight Champion Joe Warren was awarded the Bellator Interim Title after his defeats over Nick Kirk, Travis Marx and Rafael Silva. Finally set to unify the title, Dantas and Warren have engaged in a war of words since May and both have their sights set on becoming the undisputed Bellator Bantamweight Champion.

“This boy has been running his mouth and talking shit on social media for months,” Warren said. “He's made this fight very personal for me and my family. My plan is to beat the Portuguese out of him, put him to sleep and have him dreaming in English! He backed out of the last fight a week before. I am the Bellator World Champion. The belt is on my waist. If he wants it back he can try to come get it! October 10th The Baddest Man will break another Brazilian in the Bellator cage. I'm an unstoppable force and the Baddest Man On The Planet is on a Mission!”

“There isn’t a bigger loud mouth than Joe Warren,” Dantas said. “He can talk all he wants, I’m going to rip his head off anyway. I think about the fight 24 hours a day, I want to show the world what a lie he is, and how he is a fraud.”

Known across MMA as one of the most dynamic fighters in the sport, Michael “Venom” Page will return to the Bellator cage and look to keep his undefeated record intact when he faces Nah-Shon Burrell in a welterweight affair. Page has turned into must see TV every time he steps in cage, and is looking to take the next step forward in his career with a victory over Burrell.

“The time is now for my return to the Bellator cage,” Page said. “The one and only ‘MVP’ is back, hands down and ready to go.”

Submission ace and Russian phenom Alexander “Tiger” Sarnavskiy will return to action to take on Bellator newcomer and MMA veteran John “Guns” Gunderson in lightweight action. Currently riding a three fight win streak, Sarnavskiy brings in a dominating 28-2 record into the Bellator cage including 23 finishes. A thirteen year veteran of the sport, Gunderson will put his talents to the test against the rising Sarnavskiy, and will be looking to collect one of the biggest victories of his long career.

The night will be rounded out with Texas native Bubba McDaniel will step back into the Bellator cage when he takes on Middleweight newcomer Emiliano Sordi. A native of Argentina, Sordi was discovered during Bellator Latin American open tryouts, and is now getting his chance to shine on Spike TV in the biggest fight of his career. 

Full fight card information will be made available in the coming weeks.

Main Card:

Bantamweight Title Fight: Eduardo Dantas (16-3) vs. Joe Warren (11-3)

Welterweight Feature Fight: Michael Page (6-0) vs. Nah-Shon Burrell (10-4)

Lightweight Feature Fight: Tiger Sarnavskiy (28-2) vs. John Gunderson (35-16)

Middleweight Feature Fight: Bubba McDaniel (22-8) vs. Emiliano Sordi (12-4)

For more information, visit Bellator.com, follow Bellator on Twitter @BellatorMMA, and check out Bellator on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BellatorMMA        

World Series of Fighting 9 lineup complete with addition of six preliminary contests

  

Prelims feature Chris Gruetzemacher vs. John Gunderson, as well as some of Las Vegas' finest budding talent

LAS VEGAS (Feb. 18, 2014) - With a stacked main card already in place that includes two championship contests, World Series of Fighting 9's full lineup is now complete with the addition of six preliminary bouts.

The intriguing contests include no less than 10 of Las Vegas' finest mixed martial artists, as the "Fight Capital of the World" will be well represented on the card. The new matchups include featherweights Chris "Gritz" Gruetzemacher (11-1) vs. John "Guns" Gunderson (34-15), bantamweights Sean Cantor (1-0) vs. Bryson Hansen (6-1), welterweights "Filthy" Phil Dace (9-4) vs. Danny "Dee1" Davis (8-8-1), bantamweights Jimmy "Rabbit" Jones (4-2) vs. "Ruthless" Rudy Morales (2-0), lightweights Gil Guardado (2-0) vs. Jimmy Spicuzza (2-0) and debuting lightweights Tanner Cowan (0-0) vs. A.J. Williams (0-0).

"One of the great things about being based in Las Vegas is the proximity to so many of the world's absolute best MMA camps," World Series of Fighting President Ray Sefo said. "With us returning to our home base for this amazing event, it made sense for us to feature some of the city's best talent, and I think we've put together a preliminary card that is going to deliver an entertaining evening ahead of our spectacular NBCSN-broadcast main-card lineup."

"World Series of Fighting 9: Carl vs. Palhares," which features a welterweight title fight between champ Steve Carl and challenger Rousimar Palhares, as well as Marlon Moraes vs. Josh Rettinghouse for the inaugural World Series of Fighting bantamweight title, takes place March 29 at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Tickets for World Series of Fighting 9, which start at just $39, are on sale now at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets can also be purchased at The Joint box office or by phone at (800) 745-3000. The night's featured fights air live on NBCSN at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT local time) following preliminary bouts that stream on World Series of Fighting's official website, WSOF.com.

Gruetzemacher, a member of The MMA Lab in Glendale, Ariz., brings an impressive 10-fight winning streak to the cage. He faces Gunderson, a Syndicate MMA fighter who drops to featherweight for the first time in his career in this, his 50th professional fight.

Cantor is a Wanderlei Silva product who earned a close split-decision win in his professional debut. He now returns against Xtreme Couture fighter and transplanted Hawaiian Hansen, who recently rebounded from his first professional loss with a TKO win over Jesus Alvarado.

Syndicate MMA fighter Dace fought most recently in May, where he downed Jesus Wong via TKO. He now meets "Dee 1" Davis, who currently boasts a two-fight winning streak.

Xtreme Couture's Jones remains one of Las Vegas' most personable fighters, and he looks to rebound from a November 2012 loss to Sergio Pettis. He faces the hard-hitting Morales, who has earned two quick wins since turning pro in August.

Xtreme Couture' Guardado followed up his undefeated amateur career by turning pro in March 2012 and is still unbeaten after picking up a pair of stoppage wins. Meanwhile, Syndicate MMA's Spicuzza is also unbeaten through the first two fights of his professional career.

Rounding out the card, Utah's Cowan travels to Las Vegas to meet Syndicate MMA's Williams in a bout where each man makes his professional debut.

GUNDERSON, GROVE TAKE HOME WINS AND TITLES IN NIGHT OF UPSETS AND GREAT ACTION AT SHOFIGHT 20

Main card of event to be broadcasted on Pay-Per-View on July 1^st

Springfield, Missouri (USA): This past Saturday, the O’Reilly Family Event Center in Springfield, Missouri played host to ShoFIGHT 20, the first pro event in the company’s history. In the main event, John Gunderson made good on his welterweight debut, as he defeated fellow UFC vet Karo Parisyan via TKO to take home the ShoFIGHT 170-pound title. The co-main event showcased a back-and-forth scrap between TUF  season 3 winner Kendall Grove and rising Strikeforce star Derek Brunson. In the end, Grove had his hand controversially raised via split-decision. The win garnered Grove the ShoFIGHT middleweight belt.

ShoFIGHT will air on Pay-Per-View on July 1^st.

“It was an electrifying night of action for our local fight fans, and our fans up in Canada,” said ShoFIGHT Promoter JT Tilley. “From Gunderson to Grove to Beerbohm…there were some very memorable performances Saturday night. I can’t wait for the rest of the U.S. fans to get to see ShoFIGHT 20 on Pay-Per-View!”

After being taken down early in the fight, Gunderson (33-13-2) landed a brutal knee to Parisyan’s (20-9) eye, which was the beginning of the end of the fight. “Guns” quickly grabbed a guillotine, and Parisyan tapped at 2:47 of the first round. “The Heat” grabbed his face immediately in obvious pain. It was the first time he’d ever tapped out in an MMA cage.

“I was happy to get a big win and bring back another belt to my gym at Xtreme Couture,” stated Gunderson. “I plan on going back to my natural weight class at 155 pounds, but I look forward to defending my ShoFIGHT belt, regardless.”

After enduring an opponent change on only four days’ notice, Grove (15-10-0-1) went from facing a 5’8” pro boxer in Terry Martin to a 6’1” former amateur wrestling champion in Derek Brunson (9-1). The lanky Hawaiian handled the adversity, grabbing a highly-scrutinized split-decision victory over his less-experienced opponent. He worked effectively from his back, and Brunson was unable to take advantage of his takedowns. As a result, Grove came out with the win and the belt.

“I’m happy I got the win, though I wish I would have finished him,” explained Grove. “I was training for Martin for my whole camp, and then a week before my fight my opponent changed to Brunson, who is a totally different fighter. Our fight was at 190 pounds, and I was already on-point at 185 pounds. So, mentally, that messed me up a little. But I’m a fighter. I was ready to fight, so at that point, pulling out wasn’t an option. I came into this sport to fight and that’s what I did. We always wish we could have done better, but I feel like I put on a good fight. Don’t get me wrong…Brunson’s a great wrestler. But he got takedowns and did nothing with them. I did more on my back than he did on top.

“As far as what’s next, as I’ve said, I am a fighter, so I’m ready to fight. I have no injuries from Saturday’s fight, so whoever calls next, I’m game. Until then, I will continue my training in preparation of defending my belt,” he concluded.

Other notable winners on the card include Strikeforce Lyle “Fancy Pants” Beerbohm, who bloodied PRIDE vet Marcus Aurelio en route to a dominant decision victory, Jonatas Novaes, a quick TKO winner in his bout with UFC vet Drew Fickett, Chris Gruetzemacher, who now has won ten straight fights, as well as Bellator vet Dustin Phillips and former UFC fighter Matt Lucas.

Here are the full results of ShoFIGHT 20:

Main Event - ShoFIGHT Welterweight Championship

John ‘Guns’ Gunderson defeated Karo ‘the Heat’ Parysian via submission (guillotine choke) at 2:47 of the 1^stround

Co-Main Event - ShoFIGHT Middleweight Championship

Kendall ‘Da Spyder’ Grove defeated Derek Brunson via split-decision

Lyle ‘Fancy Pants’ Beerbohm defeated Marcus ‘Maximus’ Aurelio via unanimous decision

Mike Wessell defeated Matt Kovaks via TKO (punches) at 4:50 of the 2^nd round 

Jonatas Noveas defeated Drew Fickett via TKO (punches) at 0:51 of the 1^st round

Chris ‘Gritz’ Gruetzmacher defeated Roli Delgado via TKO (elbows) at 3:24 of the 3^rd round 

‘Smilin’ Sam Alvey defeated Lucas Lopes via TKO (punches) at 1:39 of the 1^st round

Chris ‘Crazyman’ McDaniel defeated Charles ‘Kid Kaos’ Bennett via submission (triangle choke) at 2:52 of the 1^st round

Sevak Magakian defeated James ‘JP’ Reese via unanimous decision

Dustin Phillips defeated Allen Gibson via unanimous decision

Mike Brazzle defeated Karen Darabedyan via TKO (punches) at 4:15 of the 1^st round

Matt ‘Luke Duke’ Lucas defeated Lucas ‘the Hillbilly Lightstorm’ Overcast via unanimous decision

Jacob ‘Straight Jacket’ Ritchie defeated Robert Saborudden via TKO (punches) at 3:28 of the 3^rd round

Jason Ignacek defeated Gary Michaels via unanimous decision

ShoFIGHT’s next event is a “ShoFIGHT Contender Series Event” on July 28^th in Branson, Missouri, which will be followed by their next pro PPV event, ShoFIGHT 22, on Sept 8^th. Stay tuned to ShoFIGHT.com for more details!

For more information on ShoFIGHT, please visit http://shofight.com/. ShoFIGHT can also be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/ShoFight-MMA/113079148732416, and on Twitter @ShoFIGHT.