GDT: PFL 1/Bellator 293: Golm vs. James

[MMC]

Date: April 1, 2023
Venue: The Theater at Virgin Hotels
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 9 pm ET/6 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN

MAIN CARD (ESPN)

Featherweight season bout: Brendan Loughnane vs. Marlon Moraes
Light Heavyweight season bout: Rob Wilkinson vs. Thiago Santos
Light Heavyweight season bout: Krzysztof Jotko vs. Will Fleury
Featherweight season bout: Movlid Khaybulaev vs. Ryoji Kudo
Featherweight season bout: Chris Wade vs. Bubba Jenkins

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+)

Light Heavyweight season bout: Marthin Hamlet vs. Mohammed Fakhreddine
Light Heavyweight season bout: Josh Silveira vs. Sam Kei
Featherweight season bout: Alejandro Flores vs. Daniel Torres
Featherweight season bout: Gabriel Braga vs. Jesus Pinedo
Light Heavyweight season bout: Delan Monte vs. Ty Flores
Light Heavyweight showcase bout: Cory Hendricks vs. Impa Kasanganay​

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[MMC]

Date: March 31, 2023
Venue: Pechanga Resort and Casino
City: Temecula, California
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: Showtime, Bellator Youtube

MAIN CARD (Showtime)

Heavyweight bout: Marcelo Golm vs. Daniel James
Women's Featherweight bout: Cat Zingano vs. Leah McCourt
Middleweight bout: John Salter vs. Aaron Jeffrey
Lightweight bout: Archie Colgan vs. Justin Montalvo
Light Heavyweight bout: Sullivan Casey vs. Luke Trainer

PRELIMINARY CARD (Bellator Youtube)

Lightweight bout: Adam Piccolotti vs. Mandel Nallo
Welterweight bout: Joey Davis vs. Jeff Creighton
Featherweight bout: Lucas Brennan vs. Josh San Diego
Lightweight bout: Lance Gibson Jr. vs. Vladimir Tokov
Women's Featherweight bout: Pam Sorensen vs. Sara Collins
Heavyweight bout: Christian Edwards vs. Rakim Cleveland
Lightweight bout: Mike Hamel vs. Nick Browne
Women's Catchweight (120 lb) bout: Randi Field vs. Ashley Cummins
Bantamweight bout: Bryce Meredith vs. Brandon Carrillo
Women's Strawweight: Maria Henderson vs. Mackenzie Stiller
Welterweight bout: Khonry Gracie vs. David Pacheco​

 

[MMC]

Sucks Akhmedov got hurt and had to withdraw, notably Shoeface and Palmer aren't here, wonder if they're planning to just do their PPVs now or if they've moved on

 

[m9]

Golm v James is a hilariously bad planned main event. I actually think there's a chance Golm isn't completely awful, but come on.

Cat Zingano has wins over a bunch of top UFC females while McCourt gets pushed up because she's hot and fights soccer moms. Doubt this one is competitive at all unless Zingano has completely lost it.

There are some decent fighters/prospects all over the card.. but not sure why the card is 17 fights long.

As for PFL, it's basically criminal that they are putting Moraes in that fight. Kind of a fun card though with Santos, Jenkins/Wade, etc.

 

[CDJ]

Didn’t realize Joey “Black Ice” Davis is back for bellator

 

[Bunk Moreland]

My boy Montalvo makes his return after tearing his bicep last summer. I'm pretty pumped and nervous cause Colgan is a tough test for the kid.

 

[Moncherry]

This reads like a knock-off version of Gane vs Jones.

 

[MMC]

 

[CDJ]

Interested in Karamov-Horie but that’s it. Rizin 42 in early May is an awesome one though

 

[I am not exposed]

This reads like a knock-off version of Gane vs Jones.

Will probably end up being better than that fight!

 

[MMC]

 

[CDJ]

That was one of the better fights I was looking forward to, woof

 

[m9]

Sometimes I find it funny that Bellator is arguably the 2nd biggest MMA promotion in the world yet they have cards like this that are basically 80% regional fighters who are probably only on the card so they can sell a few tickets and rooms at whatever casino they are playing at.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Sometimes I find it funny that Bellator is arguably the 2nd biggest MMA promotion in the world yet they have cards like this that are basically 80% regional fighters who are probably only on the card so they can sell a few tickets and rooms at whatever casino they are playing at.

A lot of their cards are feast or famine... either stacked with a bunch of their big names... or this.

Just look at Bellator 293 this summer...

• Champion Vadim Nemkov vs. Yoel Romero – for light heavyweight title
• Champion Sergio Pettis vs. Patricio Freire – for bantamweight title
• Corey Anderson vs. Phil Davis

 

[m9]

A lot of their cards are feast or famine... either stacked with a bunch of their big names... or this.

Just look at Bellator 293 this summer...

• Champion Vadim Nemkov vs. Yoel Romero – for light heavyweight title
• Champion Sergio Pettis vs. Patricio Freire – for bantamweight title
• Corey Anderson vs. Phil Davis

That's 297 but yeah, great card.

 

[MMC]

Joey Davis does not look good

 

[CDJ]

Davis looks like he got significantly worse over the 2.5 years off

 

[MMC]

 

[MMC]

I officially don’t understand the point of PFL Challenger Series. Last year it seemed like all the winners went into the tournament, but now here I think the only winner announced to start in the 2023 season was Amanda Leve in W145. And then now we have Impa, this season’s LHW winner on this card, except his bout isn’t being scored for the season, and with Sungbin pulling out, you’d think Zurcher, this year’s FW winner would be the fill in, but no, it’s actually a different guy who won on the 2023 FW Challenger Series card, but not Zurcher, who got the contract

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Colgan is a beast kids got a legit future.. I really didn't think he was the ideal opponent for Montalvo to come back from injury to fight but he's the type of kid who will take any fight put in front of him. He should bounce back it wasn't his best showing here against an savage.

 

[MMC]

Salter retires after beating Aaron Jeffrey

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Someone out there made a nice chunk of change betting all these underdogs tonight

 

[MMC]

Lol. Golm easily won rounds 1 and 2 and then James just blitzes him to start round 3 and that's that

 

[CDJ]

Walmart Francis

41 YO but he doesn’t fight like it


He saved my night, I had him by KO +200. I had such a bad night I went 0-4 ON A SINGLE PARLAY (Black Ice U1.5, Cauley, Jeffery, Edwards)

 

[CDJ]

Salter retires after beating Aaron Jeffrey

One of the more underrated careers of this era. A solid fighter for over a decade. He was fighting in the ufc in 2010!