Report: 205-Pound Tournament Semifinals Booked for Bellator 42
Sherdog.com Staff Mar 28, 2011
Richard
Hale will reportedly take on D.J.
Linderman, while Tim
Carpenter will meet Christian
M'Pumbu in the semifinals of
Bellator Fighting Championships’ first-ever light heavyweight
tournament.
Hale (Pictured) reported the pairings to MMAJunkie.com on Monday, along with the fact that both semifinals will take place April 23 at Bellator 42. The event airs live on MTV2 from the Lucky Star Casino in Concho, Okla.
The winners of the 205-pound matchups will square off later in
Bellator’s ongoing fourth season for $100,000 in total pay and the
mantle of inaugural Bellator light heavyweight titleholder.
All four competitors advanced to the semifinals with wins at last Saturday’s Bellator 38 at Harrah’s Tunica Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Miss.
Linderman also caused an upset in his first outing at 205 pounds, stopping tournament favorite Raphael Davis on third-round punches. The 27-year-old former SportFight heavyweight champ improved to 9-1 with his fourth consecutive victory.
Carpenter, a 30-year-old product of Philadelphia’s Balance Studios, upped his unbeaten record to 7-0 with a split decision over Daniel Gracie. It was Carpenter’s second win under the Bellator banner, his first coming last October against former International Fight League standout Jamal Patterson.
M’Pumbu punched out Chris Davis in the third round of their hard-fought quarterfinal scrap. It was the first fight for 33-year-old “Tonton” since his semifinal elimination from Deep’s light heavyweight grand prix in April 2010.
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Hale (Pictured) reported the pairings to MMAJunkie.com on Monday, along with the fact that both semifinals will take place April 23 at Bellator 42. The event airs live on MTV2 from the Lucky Star Casino in Concho, Okla.
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All four competitors advanced to the semifinals with wins at last Saturday’s Bellator 38 at Harrah’s Tunica Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Miss.
Hale, 25, made the biggest splash in his Bellator debut with a
stunning inverted triangle-choking of previously unbeaten Nik Fekete.
On Monday afternoon,
an official YouTube video of the technical submission had been
viewed over 80,000 times.
Linderman also caused an upset in his first outing at 205 pounds, stopping tournament favorite Raphael Davis on third-round punches. The 27-year-old former SportFight heavyweight champ improved to 9-1 with his fourth consecutive victory.
Carpenter, a 30-year-old product of Philadelphia’s Balance Studios, upped his unbeaten record to 7-0 with a split decision over Daniel Gracie. It was Carpenter’s second win under the Bellator banner, his first coming last October against former International Fight League standout Jamal Patterson.
M’Pumbu punched out Chris Davis in the third round of their hard-fought quarterfinal scrap. It was the first fight for 33-year-old “Tonton” since his semifinal elimination from Deep’s light heavyweight grand prix in April 2010.
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