Bellator 66 Thoughts

• It says a lot that Aoki through that elbow and got TKO’d by Alvarez, while Jones through that elbow an almost KO’d Evans. Stylistically, I thought that there was no way this fight would go past the first round. I knew it was going to be a nasty finish, either a limb was going to be torn off or we were going to see a head get pounded into the mat. We saw the latter. I don’t know what I would prefer for Alvarez to be honest. On one hand, Bellator has a pretty good lightweight division, but it would hurt them to lose Alvarez (especially now that they let Lombard go). We’ll see. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind seeing Chandler-Alvarez II.
• Brian Rogers, why? You had the fight won, you were turning his brain into mush, then you gassed out, let your guard down and got knocked out. Amazing comeback from Spang, but why Rogers? Breaks my heart.
• The main thing I remember from Falcao-Vasilevsky is that Vasilevsky had some neat judo trips. Those were cool. Okay match, Falcao won a close decision that could have easily gone the other way (lots of people thought Falcao won).
• Woodard was getting really frustrated that Hawn was playing his game and not Woodard’s. Lots of clinching in the first which seemed to infuriate Woodard. Great knock out punch by Hawn to start round 2, looks like the world class judoka has become a knockout artist at lightweight.
• Weedman could have won that fight so much easier, but he seemed to give Thiago Michel every chance he could get. I think I might have even scored the fight for Michel, but it was a close fight, much closer than it had any right being. Weedman should have taken him down more, Michel was the better striker and landed some really good strikes at time.
• I was very amused that Sean Wheelock made a reference to Wim Wenders, a German filmmaker. It seemed to come out of nowhere, I just found that funny.

Full match results can be found here.