Bellator 163 : Liam McGeary vs. Phil Davis EN Marloes Coenen vs. Talita Nogueira

**Kemal** · 24-09-2016, 07:29

MAIN CARD
Champ Liam McGeary vs. Phil Davis – for light-heavyweight title
Saad Awad vs. Brennan Ward
Marloes Coenen vs. Talita Nogueira

PRELIMINARY CARD
Josh Diekmann vs. Tyler King
Walter Smith-Cotito vs. Blair Tugman
Tim Caron vs. Mike Zichelle
Carlos Correia vs. Ilya Kotau
Sarah Payant vs. Hannah Regina

**Brainthief** · 24-09-2016, 17:49

Ben benieuwd hoe McGeary het gaat doen. En hoop dat marloes wint natuurlijk.

**LightHeavyWeight** · 24-09-2016, 20:33

Ik denk toch dat die vervelende Davis deze gaat pakken.

**Kemal** · 04-10-2016, 07:50

Paul Daley vs. Derek Anderson slated for Bellator 163 in Connecticut

Paul Daley finally has an opponent for next month’s Bellator 163 event.

Officials today confirmed with MMAjunkie that Daley (38-14-2 MMA, 4-1 BMMA) will meet Derek Anderson (14-2 MMA, 5-2 BMMA) in a welterweight bout at the event.

Bellator 163 takes place Nov. 4 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The main card airs on Spike following prelims on MMAjunkie.

Daley was on a five-fight winning streak and had posted nine victories in a 10-bout span before a July unanimous-decision loss to former Bellator champion Douglas Lima, who was a replacement for Daley’s rival Josh Koscheck. The 33-year-old English fighter owns 28 knockouts in 38 career wins. Prior to the Lima loss, Daley earned back-to-back knockout wins over Andy Uhrich and Dennis Olson.

Anderson, meanwhile, looks for his third straight win following decision victories over notables Patricky Freire and Saad Awad in his two most recent bouts. The 26-year-old, whose first nine career wins came via stoppage, has recently competed at lightweight.

In addition to Daley vs. Anderson, a heavyweight bout between Sergei Kharitonov (23-5 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) and Javy Ayala (9-5 MMA, 4-2 BMMA) is also slated for Bellator 163. MMAFighting.com first reported the bout.

The latest Bellator 163 card includes:

MAIN CARD (Spike, 9 p.m. ET)
Champ Liam McGeary vs. Phil Davis – for light-heavyweight title
Saad Awad vs. Brennan Ward
Marloes Coenen vs. Talita Nogueira
Derek Anderson vs. Paul Daley
Javy Ayala vs. Sergei Kharitonov

PRELIMINARY CARD (MMAjunkie, 7 p.m. ET)
Josh Diekmann vs. Tyler King
Walter Smith-Cotito vs. Blair Tugman
Tim Caron vs. Mike Zichelle
Carlos Correia vs. Ilya Kotau
Sarah Payant vs. Hannah Regina

**micha** · 04-10-2016, 16:20

kharitonov dat is lang geleden. ik hoop dat Marloes wint natuurlijk

**de Stiep** · 04-10-2016, 18:16

Ik hoop dat Anderson Daley verslaat. Vind Semtex een onsympatieke vechter. Tja voor wat betreft Marloes......WARRRRRRRRRR.

**Klassikl** · 05-10-2016, 22:31

Toffe kaart. Main event is 1 van de betere die te maken zijn in bellator.

**Kemal** · 07-10-2016, 06:48

Next month’s Bellator return to Connecticut now is complete with the addition of six fights for the preliminary card, including the highly touted pro MMA debuts of a pair of elite collegiate wrestlers.

Officials today announced the new bookings for Bellator 163, which is set for Nov. 4 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., with a main card on Spike following prelims on MMAjunkie. In the main event, light heavyweight champion Liam McGeary puts his title on the line against former UFC standout Phil Davis.

Added to the prelims today were a middleweight fight between Ed Ruth (0-0 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) and Mark Mangiardi (0-0 MMA, 0-0 BMMA), both of whom will be making their pro debuts; a heavyweight bout between debutants Tyrell Fortune (0-0 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) and Cody Miskell (0-0 MMA, 0-0 BMMA); a catchweight fight between Neiman Gracie (4-0 MMA, 2-0 BMMA) and Rudy Bears (16-14 MMA, 2-6 BMMA); Keenan Raymond (3-3 MMA, 0-1 BMMA) vs. the debuting Kastroit Xhema (0-0 MMA, 0-0 BMMA); Tom English (6-6 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) vs. Chris Foster (9-5 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) at featherweight; and James Boran (6-0 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) vs. Vinicius De Jesus (4-1 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) at welterweight.

Ruth, a three-time national wrestling champion at Penn State, will make his long-awaited MMA debut when he takes on Mangiardi. Ruth signed with Bellator in May 2015, but wasn’t expected to debut until after making a run at the Olympics – though that dream didn’t come to fruition.

Fortune signed with Bellator not long after Ruth did. He, too, had Olympic hopes for Rio de Janeiro. But now the Blackzilians-based heavyweight will finally make his pro debut when he takes on Miskell, who has seven amateur bouts on his resume with seen finishes.

With the additions, the Bellator 163 card now includes:

MAIN CARD (Spike, 9 p.m. ET)
Champ Liam McGeary vs. Phil Davis – for light-heavyweight title
Saad Awad vs. Brennan Ward
Derek Anderson vs. Paul Daley
Javy Ayala vs. Sergei Kharitonov
Marloes Coenen vs. Talita Nogueira

PRELIMINARY CARD (MMAjunkie, 7:50 p.m. ET)
Mark Mangiardi vs. Ed Ruth
Tyrell Fortune vs. Cody Miskell
Rudy Bears vs. Neiman Gracie
Josh Diekmann vs. Tyler King
Walter Smith-Cotito vs. Blair Tugman
Tim Caron vs. Mike Zichelle
Carlos Correia vs. Ilya Kotau
Sarah Payant vs. Hannah Regina
Kastroit Xhema vs. Keenan Raymond
Tom English vs. Chris Foster
James Boran vs. Vinicius De Jesus

**Lionheart** · 07-10-2016, 12:29

Hoop dat McGeary Davis submit.
Leuke vechter die McGeary, heerlijke Engelse humor heeft die gast ook.

**LightHeavyWeight** · 07-10-2016, 13:29

Een mooie triangle choke zou mooi zijn maar ik kan me niet voorstellen dat Davis dat toelaat.

**Lionheart** · 07-10-2016, 13:33

Idd Davis is wel een saaie maar taaie vechter die je niet zomaar verslaat.

**Kemal** · 03-11-2016, 07:51

Marloes Coenen seeks Bellator 163 win to set up 'bad blood' rematch with Alexis Dufresne

Marloes Coenen has experienced a handful of losses during her nearly 16-year MMA career. She said none were more physically or emotionally difficult to digest than her shocking upset defeat to Alexis Dufresne at Bellator 155 in May.

Coenen (23-7 MMA, 2-1 BMMA) has twice shared the cage with Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino, falling short by TKO both times. She said neither of those losses, or even her Strikeforce title-fight loss to Miesha Tate in 2011, compared to the anguish she was forced to endure when 7-1 underdog Dufresne (6-2 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) caught her in a triangle-armbar submission inside the first round of their matchup earlier this year.

“It was really hard for me,” Coenen told MMAjunkie. “I’ve lost before but I’ve always had an excuse for myself. I never said it on social media or anything, but I always knew why I lost. This time it was really my own fault. It really hurt to my core. It hurt a very long time. Not only my arm, but mentally it hurt a really long time.”

Coenen will attempt to redeem herself on Friday when she meets Bellator newcomer Talita Nogueira (6-0 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) at Bellator 163, which takes place Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The featherweight matchup opens the Spike-televised main card following prelims on MMAjunkie.

For previous losses, Coenen said she could justify the outcome to herself because of a medical condition she kept private. The Dutch fighter said she was diagnosed with a condition that stemmed from grossly overtraining in the lead-up to her fights, and the result would be a severe lack of energy when she stepped inside the cage for competition.

That issue was rectified in recent years, though, and Coenen said she’s felt better than ever going into all her fights since joining the Bellator roster in October 2014. That’s what made the loss to Dufresne so tough to digest, she said. There was nowhere to point the finger other than a deficiency in focus and technique in the moment where Dufresne wrapped her up in the fight-ending submission.

“I had an issue for about a decade and I never spoke about it because I would go see doctors and specialists and all that,” Coenen said. “After 10 years of searching I found the answer and it was just being overtrained. I had severe side effects from being overtrained, so when I lost in the cage I knew why: I had no energy. This time I have good health now. My cardio is great. This time I can’t say that. It was my own fault. That’s why it hurt that much.

“It screws up your liver and you’re very tired. When I was 20 you could get contractions in the muscles in my body and I couldn’t stop it. … It hit me that I wasn’t sick, it was just being overtrained. I changed a lot of things in my routine. Less hours in the gym, more rest, better diet. For Miesha, I was overtrained I had to diet to 135 and that was a very difficult combination. I never had energy to be in the cage.”

Although the loss temporarily crushed her spirit, Coenen eventually came out on the other end of it with a positive mindset. She’s managed to rebound from every career loss in a successful manner, and she intends on doing that again at Bellator 163.

“As a human being it helped me to grow, because when you have so much pain you finally learn,” Coenen said. “All the fighters have big losses. Ronda Rousey hurt her jaw, Miesha Tate lost her title to (Amanda) Nunes. As a person it helps you to grow and as a fighter it gave a lot of motivation. It was the kind of motivation I didn’t have for years because I’ve been doing this for 16 years on a professional level. Sometimes the motivation goes. I’m so motivated to redeem myself and that’s the upside of the loss.”

Despite the fact she’s moved on to a new fight and new opponent, Coenen hasn’t forgotten about Dufresne and her conduct both before and after their bout. Dufresne missed weight by five pounds for the fight then taunted Coenen afterward by claiming the weight advantage had no impact on the result.

Whether that’s true or not is up to interpretation, but Coenen said her business with Dufresne is not yet over. She wants the rematch and chance to avenge her only loss in more than three years, but said she doesn’t know if Dufresne is interested in trying to repeat her previous performance and prove the loss was no upset.

“They offered her a rematch and she declined,” Coenen said. “She has a really big mouth and I also think she knows it would not happen again. If I’m fighting someone and I beat the person and they want to fight me again, I will fight them. Then I will fight them until they don’t want to fight me anymore. She has a different mindset picking fights and stuff like that. She’s afraid of losing if she fights me again.

“In my carer, sometimes I fought a fighter three times. I don’t care. I’ll fight you until you don’t want to fight me. I think she’s very disrespectful to the game. She signed a contract saying she would be on weight on a certain day. If you don’t make it three times in a row it tells me you don’t have a lot of respect for the game, for the fans, for Bellator and for no one. Not for yourself as well. There’s still some bad blood between us and I hope I find her on the other side of the cage again.”

A rematch with Dufresne almost certainly won’t materialize unless Coenen can get the job done at Bellator 163. Her opponent, Nogueira, is largely unheralded and hasn’t competed in a pro bout since December 2013. Nevertheless, Coenen said she is taking the undefeated Brazilian seriously, because at 35,”Rumina” simply can’t afford another setback.

“After this loss the only person I wanted to fight was Alexis but she refused to fight unless it was for a title,” Coenen said. “Then they gave me this fight, and if I win I’ve proven myself again that I’m still a top fighter. That’s what I’m trying to do right now. I have my hands full. All that’s on my eyes in Nov. 4th and whatever happens I will look at the opportunities there.”

**e-type** · 03-11-2016, 18:00

Het wedkantoor voor de main card van Bellator 163 is vanaf nu open!!

link

(voor de snelle beslissers dan, wedkantoor gaat morgenavond om 23:30 dicht voor dit event)

**Bromios** · 03-11-2016, 22:50

Partij Marloes is gecanceld. Tegenstander 5,7 pond te zwaar.

**Kemal** · 04-11-2016, 07:29

**Kemal** · 04-11-2016, 07:29

MAIN CARD (Spike, 9 p.m. ET)
Champ Liam McGeary (204) vs. Phil Davis (204) – for light-heavyweight title
Saad Awad (170.25) vs. Brennan Ward (170.5)
Derek Anderson (170.5) vs. Paul Daley (171)*
Javy Ayala (265) vs. Sergei Kharitonov (263.5)

PRELIMINARY CARD (MMAjunkie, 7:50 p.m. ET)
Dustin Collins-Miles (192) vs. Ed Ruth (190.25) – 192-pound catchweight
Tyrell Fortune (248.75) vs. Cody Miskell (263)
Rudy Bears (172.5) vs. Neiman Gracie (174.25) – 175-pound catchweight
Josh Diekmann (228) vs. Tyler King (238)
Walter Smith-Cotito (144.5) vs. Blair Tugman (145)
Tim Caron (193.25) vs. Mike Zichelle (193.75) – 195-pound catchweight
Carlos Correia (170.5) vs. Ilya Kotau (169.5)
Sarah Payant (126) vs. Hannah Regina (124)
Keenan Raymond (159.75) vs. Kastroit Xhema (159) – 160-pound catchweight
Tom English (144.5) vs. Chris Foster (144.5)
James Boran (168.25) vs. Vinicius De Jesus (170)

* – Daley will weighed in after the official ceremony, according to Bellator officials

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A main-card bout between Talita Nogueira (6-0 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) and Marloes Coenen (23-7 MMA, 2-1 BMMA) was scrapped after Nogueira was unable to cut additional weight and fell short by 5.6 pounds during early weigh-ins. Sherdog.com first reported the cancelation.