Bellator LW GP Discussion Thread

BJ_Penn_Forever · March 14, 2023, 2:51pm

It does blow and it takes some excitement of the tournament away compared to the old PRIDE GP’s but at least they are running a stacked tournament at all. That is the way I look at it.

Weird they have not yet provided a date for the McKee fight.

BJ_Penn_Forever · May 14, 2023, 12:53pm

BJ_Penn_Forever:

Primus is 3-2 since losing the Bellator belt to Michael Chandler in 2018, but feels he had done enough to win a decision against Islam Mamedov in 2021. Primus said he was promised a title fight after beating Henderson three months later and jumped right back into camp, spending “a bunch of money,” but then “we found out that I’m not fighting for the title.” Primus lost to Alexander Shabliy in his most recent appearance.

“I’ve been training for [the tournament]. I’ve been training my butt off. It sucks,” Primus said. “I thought like, ‘Man, should I just retire and start teaching or get a job?’ I still don’t have a fight lined up right now, so I’m just keeping my face strong, praying and hoping everything will work out. They said that I’m the alternate for this tournament so I guess I can just cross my fingers and hope somebody gets injured.”

The veteran fighter, who turns 38 in April, admits he’s “disappointed in Bellator in the whole situation” but hoping someone gets injured — “but not too injured” — and he steps in as the alternate. In the meantime, Primus asks for a spot on the March 10 event in San Jose, Calif.

“I respect Bellator so much,” Primus said. “They’re so awesome. I like all the guys. I don’t really have too much of a relationship with Scott Coker, we’ve only talked a couple of times. I wish we had a better relationship. Maybe I’ll bring him some cookies or donuts after my next fight or and something, I don’t know. … Hopefully Bellator will give me a fight soon.”

So here Primus is thinking he should have won the Mamedov fight and then thinking he was gonna get a title shot and not only did that fall through but he was not in the tourny after losing to Shabliy. Didn’t even have a fight booked as of Jan. Then with Outlaw out, he got in the tourny and just beat Barnaoui and now finds himself not only in the semis but he is now once again in a title fight.

So Primus just went from not being in the tourny and not having a fight booked while coming off an L in January to now in May he is booked vs the champ in a title fight and the semis of the GP.

Things change quick in MMA, especially when you run a good GP like this one.

BJ_Penn_Forever · May 14, 2023, 12:56pm