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Kemal
27-11-2011, 08:52
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Main Card (MTV2)
Thiago Santos vs. Eric Prindle is ruled a no contest after accidental groin strike in round 1
Patricky Freire def. Kurt Pellegrino via TKO at 0:50 round 1
Eduardo Dantas def. Alexis Vila via unanimous decision
Marcin Held def. Phillipe Nover via split decision

Undercard (Spike.com)
Karl Amoussou def. Jesus Martinez via TKO at 2:20 round 1
LeVon Maynard def. Chris Wing via unanimous decision
Lucas Pimenta def. Doug Gordon via knockout at 0:40 round 1
Scott Heckman def. Brylan Van Artsdalen via submission (guillotine choke) at 1:38 round 1
Gregory Milliard def. Brandon Saling via unanimous decision

Kemal
27-11-2011, 08:53
Dantas Wins Bellator Bantamweight Tourney, Heavyweights Fight to No Contest

In addition to Kurt Pellegrino's swan song (http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/11/26/kurt-pellegrino-loses-and-retires-at-bellator-59/), Saturday night's Bellator (http://www.mmafighting.com/bellator/) 59 event also featured the Season 5 tournament finals in the heavyweight and bantamweight divisions. But while the bantamweight tournament final was a solid fight that crowned a new top contender in the division, the heavyweight fight was a debacle.

That heavyweight fight, Thiago Santos vs. Eric Prindle, came to a confusing and confounding ending, with a conference including the referee, cageside doctor and athletic commission officials taking much longer than the fight itself. It was ultimately ruled a no contest.

With Prindle on the ground on his back, Santos kicked him right between the legs, and the referee called a halt to the action for an illegal low blow. After five minutes Prindle said he still couldn't continue fighting, and it was announced that the low kick was unintentional, so the fight was declared a no contest. But it's hard to see how anyone watching the kick could think it was unintentional: If Santos didn't intend to kick Prindle between his legs, what did he intend to do?

In any event, Santos and Prindle will now have to have a rematch to determine which one of them gets the next crack at Bellator heavyweight champion Cole Konrad. That's a disappointment for Bellator, which was hoping to find itself a good contender for Konrad to fight.

At bantamweight, Eduardo Dantas beat Alexis Vila by unanimous decision, 29-28 on all three judges' cards, to win the Bellator bantamweight tournament. The fight gave Vila the first loss of his MMA (http://www.mmafighting.com/) career and improves Dantas to 13-2. Bellator bantamweight champion Zach Makovsky will defend his belt against Dantas next year, and that should be a good fight: Bellator has a fun and exciting bantamweight division, and it's too bad that the bantamweight tournament final was overshadowed by the mess at heavyweight.

And in a big surprise to begin the MTV2 televised broadcast, the 19-year-old Polish lightweight Marcin Held won a split decision victory over former Ultimate Fighter finalist Phillipe Nover (http://www.mmafighting.com/fighter/phillipe/nover/515/). The fight easily could have gone for Nover, and the decision had the crowd booing. A Held-Nover rematch would make a lot of sense for Bellator in 2012.

Kemal
27-11-2011, 08:54
Kurt Pellegrino Loses, Retires at Bellator 59

The final Bellator (http://www.mmafighting.com/bellator/) Fighting Championships event of 2011 also featured the final fight of Kurt Pellegrino (http://www.mmafighting.com/fighter/kurt/pellegrino/373/)'s career.

Fighting in front of his home-state fans in New Jersey, Pellegrino was defeated in just 50 seconds by Patricky "Pitbull" Freire, and he said afterward that he won't fight again.

"I started my career in Atlantic City and I wanted to end it in Atlantic City as well," Pellegrino told the fans at Caesar's Atlantic City afterward. "I lost fair and square. I love you all so much. This is the last time you'll ever see me fight again."

Pellegrino telling the fans (many of whom were his friends and family) that he had lost fair and square seemed to quell their anger at an apparent fast stoppage in his loss to Pitbull. Although Pitbull leveled Pellegrino with a left-right combination and then jumped on top and hit him with several punches on the ground, Pellegrino did still appear to be intelligently defending himself at the time of the stoppage, and the fans loudly booed the outcome.

A UFC (http://www.mmafighting.com/ufc) veteran who went 7-5 inside the Octagon, Pellegrino left the UFC on a two-fight losing streak in May, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family. It was a surprise when he returned to MMA (http://www.mmafighting.com/) to fight for Bellator, but it's not a surprise that he's now saying he's done fighting at the age of 32.