The stoppage was bad according to Paraschiv. Amansio"s team argued a lot and wants rematch with Petrosyan.
I expect title holders to put their title on the line and not lose fights without losing their title.Any given sunday and all that. Its the fight game. You cant put on a great performance everytime. Last year Armen Petrosyan had a really boring performance in Florance. But he looked great last weekend.
I think for the last minite replacements, its a long way to come at short notice. Ross even had someone from the UK in his corner who is a old acquaintance and not even one of his coaches.
with the victory kickboxing show on first It was a good show over all to watch live, especially for the price of a ticket. Compared to what we get in the UK it was great!
But it is what it is. Im not really sure what you expect when more than half the fight card flown in last minute from the states. It looks like you are just trying a little to hard to hate bellator kb. Daniels had a great first round then got injured near the end of the round and was shit after and everyone in the arena thought schilling lost. But at least they all came over to put on a last minute show. After petro pulling out of a tittle fight it was always gonna be tough to save the show.
I expect title holders to put their title on the line and not lose fights without losing their title.
I don't think I am asking for too much here.
Do you not agree that having your champion lose a non title fight is a bad look for your promotion?
But what is the point then? Why make a catch weight fight for your champion against a complete nobody?Yeah i totally agree, it looks pretty bad.
But i also understand that if it is at a catch weight it couldn't of been for a tittle.
It would probably be a good rematch. Petrosyan just had his number that night, he kept changing to southpaw and was finding the body shot clean 2/3 times early on and dropped him with a beautiful kick to the liver or ribs, it was a really loud crack. From memory he didnt get up in time and wasnt complaining about the stoppage at the time but id have to see it again. Petrosyan looked great. I was really disserpointed when i see him last year but he looked fantasic saturday
But what is the point then? Why make a catch weight fight for your champion against a complete nobody?
Here is what really happened. They wanted to bring in a can for Kevin to crush but they couldn't give the can a title shot so they made a catch weight and it backfired.
I thought Paraschiv looked better until that liver kick. He complained in the press, plus also his coach. I believe though it was a great kick of Petrosyan, but he shouldn"t have been stopped. Maybe a rematch can happen, to avoid this talk.
I would like to use this opportunity to point out that Bellator kickboxing has had EIGHT events.You gotta realize we are judging these promotions on a larger scale.
If that event was in my area, sure I would go to it and probably have a blast.
That doesn't negate any of my points though.
As I've said in other posts, Bellator needs to actually promote its kickboxing brand. Hardly anyone knows it exists. It's hard to find info on upcoming fights and cards too.