Bellator XV Betting Odds

by Nick Thomas on Apr 21, 2010 4:51 PM EDT in MMA News

Join us at Bloodyelbow.com as the remaining welterweights fight it out on Thursday April 22nd, live on Fox Sports Net at 8:00 PM EST:

Main Card:
Welterweight tourney first round
Dan Hornbuckle (19-2) -625 vs. Tylor Stinson (16-5) +425
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Top 15 world-ranked Dan Hornbuckle is looking to secure his place as one of MMA’s top welterweights as he takes on late replacement Tyler Stinson of Kansas, who is looking to continue his three fight win-streak.

Jacob McClintock (6-0) -225 vs. Ryan Thomas (10-4) +185

Praised by MMA publications as one of MMA’s top future stars, Jacob “Tick Tock” McClintock takes on Ryan Thomas who gets a second chance at glory after a controversial loss to Ben Askren last week.

Brett Cooper (7-2) -200 vs. Steve Carl (2-1) +160

Knockout artist and Long Beach, California-native, the young veteran Brett Cooper enters against seasoned US Army sergeant and five-year MMA expert Steve Carl.

Featherweight tourney first round
Patricio Friere (12-0) -290 vs. Will Romero (5-0) +230

Perfect records collide when undefeated Brazilian submission artist Patricio Pitbull battles the also undefeated highly touted Canadian fighter William Romero in an opening round featherweight bout.

Semifinal pairings will be announced this week:
WW (Ben Askren)
LW (Roger Huerta vs. Pat Curran, Carey Vanier vs. Toby Imada)
FW (Joe Warren, Georgi Karakhanyan, Wilson Reis)

HT: bellator.com

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With any luck, I’ll be at Mohegan Sun on Thursday to report live results.

Also, there’s a chance Jim Wallhead won’t be able to make it over from the UK due to the ash cloud.

by Chris Nelson on Apr 19, 2010 11:12 AM EDT reply actions

I will more than gladly be your proxy if you don't want to go to Mohegan Sun.

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by Matthew Roth on Apr 19, 2010 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions

That sucks for Wallhead, that guy really can’t catch a break. I was really looking forward to see him fight, I wonder what Bellator will do with him.

"I fight because I can’t sing, I can’t dance, and it beats working all day. Now ask me a question that doesn’t sound so fucking stupid." – Phil Baroni

by midwestbred on Apr 21, 2010 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Pitbull/Romero is gonna be sick.

http://www.twitter.com/TB_Money

by Tim Burke on Apr 19, 2010 11:14 AM EDT reply actions

Hornbuckle is a bad, bad man. all wins by stopage except one. hopefully he wins this thing and then steps up in competition big time

by Stillberry on Apr 19, 2010 11:55 AM EDT reply actions

Yea I could have swore I heard of him. Why would I hear about him Im more of a UFC guy any reason?

by p123 on Apr 21, 2010 6:11 PM EDT up reply actions

he’s been fighting in sengoku lately. absolutely crazy headkick KO of Akihiro Gono

by Stillberry on Apr 22, 2010 9:27 AM EDT up reply actions

I don’t like the idea of some guys having more time between their fights than others. To keep it fair they need all the featherweight fights the same week. All the welterweight fights the same week. The way they are doing it some guys won’t have as much time to recover before the next round starts. That just don’t seem fair.

Don’t get me wrong I like the tournament structure. I would just like to see everyone in the tourney fighting on a level playing field. Well actually I like this kind of tournament structure for low tier to mid tier fighters. When it comes to top tier talent I don’t want the fight tarnished by some kind of injury from fighting two weeks earlier. When it comes to top tier talent I want to know both fighters had a proper training camp and are coming in to the fight in the best condition possible with no excuses.

Just BE.

by mattman73 on Apr 19, 2010 11:57 AM EDT reply actions

UFC and Strikeforce

have fallen short these last few outtings. and this could possibly just be bad luck, but I believe my favorite televised mma events these last few weeks have been from Bellator.

by Rocejize on Apr 19, 2010 12:19 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs

UFC 111, UFC 112 and UFC Fight Night were good shows don’t get fooled because so people are butthurt over GSP’s dominance and Andy acting a fool.

by Raker on Apr 20, 2010 12:26 AM EDT reply actions

and the SF event plain sucked

i turned it off for a 20 inning mets game

by milk72 on Apr 21, 2010 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions

exactly

by doonerthesooner on Apr 21, 2010 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions

No one is "butthurt"

Bellator has put on some really fun shows. UFC 112 was a pretty lackluster event which is unfortunate because the card was set to be a great one. But Hughes/Gracie was just a weird fight, Penn looked…odd, Silva acted a fool…and it just kind of made it disappointing. Not bad as much as not what people wanted.

111 was a fine show.

Fight Night was fine.

SF was a turd.

WEC will be the shit.

It’s okay for people to “enjoy” a show more than the past few UFC events.

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by Brent Brookhouse on Apr 21, 2010 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions

The people I was with loved UFC 111 with the exception of the last two rounds of the Silva fight but the Edgar fight made up for that. Different strokes for different folks. Shout out to the Shields fight I actually liked it.

by darkside3744 on Apr 21, 2010 9:19 PM EDT up reply actions

Hey, maybe this will actually air at it's regularly scheduled time

Nope, like we need a replay of the Brewer’s getting their ass kicked.

by RobertGBP on Apr 21, 2010 5:07 PM EDT reply actions

...

If it doesn’t – change providers, and make sure you get HDnet for more live cards and a lot of other MMA shows

by justbleed9999 on Apr 21, 2010 9:08 PM EDT up reply actions

wallhead

so he is not fighting because he can’t get to the usa? do we know if he will still enter the tourny?

by Dr Tyronious on Apr 21, 2010 5:27 PM EDT reply actions

There isn’t a spot open for him now, but if someone gets hurt they have a hell of a back-up plan.

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by Brent Brookhouse on Apr 21, 2010 7:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Thank you Brent u da man

by Dr Tyronious on Apr 21, 2010 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions

For what it's worth...

His management was tweeting the other day, asking people to start petitioning the UFC and Strikeforce to sign him.

by Chris Nelson on Apr 21, 2010 7:48 PM EDT up reply actions

bellator

i don’t know what it is about bellator but they sure put on some good EFFIN fights i know it is not top talent but way better then SF and even UFC sometimes

by Dr Tyronious on Apr 21, 2010 5:28 PM EDT reply actions

Define “top talent”. A majority of the fighters on the main card of Bellator XV are good enough to be in the UFC/WEC.

by smoogy2 on Apr 21, 2010 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions

I agree. There is some great talent in Bellator that shouldn’t get overlooked just because that is where they fight.

Just BE.

by mattman73 on Apr 21, 2010 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions

top talent

i agree I am not trying to downplay bellators roster cause they are really good fighters that could compete in UFC but I just notice that the fighters in bellator are UFC washouts or up and coming fighters who would not be as successful in the octagon at least not yet (for the up and comers that is) but the featherweights could probably all crossover to WEC for sure. IMHO

by Dr Tyronious on Apr 21, 2010 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions

UPDATE

Bloody Elbow will be live at Mohegan Sun tomorrow night with live results for errbody.

by Chris Nelson on Apr 21, 2010 5:53 PM EDT reply actions

yaaaay!

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by Brent Brookhouse on Apr 21, 2010 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions

Hey I think I heard of that Brett Cooper guy. I remember while looking for JJ gyms I went with a buddy of mine from work to his gym. This guy Spirit Wolf was there teaching and what not. Seemed like a real chill dude. I think he trains with Dean Lister or something. Little did I know a year later he was knocking out this prospect Brett Cooper. Awesome.

by p123 on Apr 21, 2010 6:05 PM EDT reply actions

whats with some of these records?

cooper is 11-5 on sherdog not 7-2 and steve carl is 9-1 not 2-1
just curious.

by greenseedbc on Apr 21, 2010 6:06 PM EDT reply actions

Speaking of that does anyone know where I can get Sosynski fight that he had to get into the TUF house. He knocked out one of the guys from my gym to get in. Kind of embarassing but seeing how he turned out it’s not that bad to get KOed by a guy like that. Anyone know were to get it at?

by p123 on Apr 21, 2010 6:06 PM EDT reply actions