Bellator 88

[poopoo333]

MAIN (Spike TV, 10 p.m. ET)

• Maiquel Falcao vs. Alexander Shlemenko - for vacant middleweight title
• Marlon Sandro vs. Akop Stepanyan - featherweight tournament opening round
• Mitch Jackson vs. Mike Richman - featherweight tournament opening round
• Fabricio Guerreiro vs. Magomedrasul Khasbulaev - featherweight tournament opening round

PRELIMINARY (Spike.com, 8 p.m. ET)

• Alexandre Bezerra vs. Genair da Silva - featherweight tournament opening round
• George Hickman vs. Stephen Upchurch
• Clay Harvison vs. Ururahy Rodrigues
• Kelvin Tiller vs. Dave Vitkay
• Shane Crenshaw vs. Ronnie Rogers
• Jerrid Burke vs. Joe Elmore

[edman5555]

When is this?

[poopoo333]

Thursday

[SPX]

Thoughts on Falcao/Schlemenko?

[poopoo333]

I like the Russian

[edman5555]

Faclao is good but that russians record is pretty damn impressive.

[mike]

i need to watch some vids on these guys. which fight should i be looking at?

[poopoo333]

[SPX]

Surprised to see Falcao such a large underdog.

[zY|]

Yeah it's 2 guys with big gaudy records who haven't really fought anyone.

Btw Shlemenko's wiki page is pretty funny; he clearly wrote itself with all of the superfluous embellishments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shlemenko

[edman5555]

Is it me or does Falcao gas? I think he has a bit of a layoff coming into this one.

[poopoo333]

I really don't see any of the favorites on the main card losing.

[SPX]

I still remember Falcao making Gerald Harris--a good, solid fighter--look like a damn fool. So it wouldn't surprise me at all if he just goes out there and fucks Schlemenko up.

[poopoo333]

I see Falcao doing OK in rounds 1 and 2 and then fading.

[SPX]

Could be. I probably do favor Schlemenko. But the odds are too high.