{"id":53562,"date":"2015-06-24T16:56:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53562"},"modified":"2015-06-24T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T22:09:56","slug":"bellator-139-pre-fight-report-breaking-ufc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53562","title":{"rendered":"Bellator 139: Pre-Fight Report \u2013 Breaking UFC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53562\" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53562\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-53128 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/B-MMA.jpg\" alt=\"B MMA\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Nathan \u201cDiesel\u201d Hendrickson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bellator 139 will take place this Friday, June 26th at the Kansas Star Arena just right outside of Wichita, Kansas in Mulvane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The lineup on the Spike TV Main Card:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heavyweight Main Event: Cheick Kongo, 22-10-2 vs. Alexander Volkov, 24-5<br \/>\nLightweight Feature Fight: Dave Rickels, 16-3 vs. John Alessio, 35-17<br \/>\nFeatherweight Feature Fight: Pat Curran, 20-7 vs. Emmanuel Sanchez, 10-1<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Middleweight Feature Fight: Joe Schilling, 2-4 vs. Hisaki Kato, 4-1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preliminary Card available on Spike.com:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featherweight Feature Fight: Bubba Jenkins, 8-2 vs. Joe Wilk, 17-10<br \/>\nHeavyweight Feature Fight: Augusto Sakai, 7-0 vs. Daniel Gallemore, 18-1<br \/>\nBantamweight Feature Fight: Jeimeson Saudino, 6-1 vs. Aaron Ely, 4-2<br \/>\nLightweight fight: Bobby Cooper, 9-3 vs. Pablo Vallaseca, 9-0<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s Featherweight fight: Iony Razafiarison, 2-0 vs. Bryanna Fissori, 1-0<br \/>\nHeavyweight fight: Alex Huddleston, 5-1 vs. Javy Ayala, 8-3<br \/>\nFeatherweight fight: Greg Scott, 3-3 vs. Gaston Reyno, 3-0<br \/>\nHeavyweight fight: Derek Bohi, 6-3 vs. Frederick Brown, 2-1<br \/>\nLightweight fight: Marcio Navarro, 13-11 vs. Cody Carrillo, 8-11<\/p>\n<p>RSR will be cageside covering all the action, so ensure you check us out for the full report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What to watch for:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An aging 40 year old Cheick Kongo is always in shape and shows an amazing physique. He is a knockout artist, but this former UFC vet is no spring chicken. Former champ 26 year old Volkov is experienced and younger, and is 5-1 since losing his title in 2013. I would expect Volkov to put another nail in the coffin of Kongo\u2019s once-great career if he can last past round 1.<\/p>\n<p>Striker Dave Rickles vs. grappler John Alessio? Man, I don\u2019t know about that one!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll go out on a limb and predict that favorite Pat Curran will be beaten by Emmanuel Sanchez in an upset. Sanchez is a hungry \u201cUp and Comer\u201d and Curran has been inconsistent in his last few fights. I could (and often am) be wrong!<\/p>\n<p>Joe Schilling will likely get into a stand-up battle with Hisaki Kato and get a finish.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll admit I don\u2019t know anything about the preliminary card fighters except for Marcio Navarro, who is an MMA and kickboxing veteran who has fought on Dale \u201cApollo\u201d Cook\u2019s cards in Tulsa. He is a dangerous veteran, and will likely get a victory by decision.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nathan \u201cDiesel\u201d Hendrickson Bellator 139 will take place this Friday, June 26th at the Kansas Star Arena just right outside of Wichita, Kansas in Mulvane. The lineup on the Spike TV Main Card: Heavyweight Main Event: Cheick Kongo, 22-10-2 vs. Alexander Volkov, 24-5 Lightweight Feature Fight: Dave Rickels, 16-3 vs. John Alessio, 35-17 Featherweight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10374],"tags":[13113],"class_list":["post-53562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma-2","tag-bellator-139-pre-fight-report-breaking-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53562"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}