Simply Results Bellator 289, Stots & Mix Advance to Grand Prix Finals

The Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville Connecticut hosts Bellator 289. The 13-fight card features the semifinals of the Bantamweight Grand Prix including the interim Bantamweight title being on the line. Plus, a rematch for the Bellator Women’s Flyweight championship.

Stots is a wrestler whose striking has come to the point where he won the interim title by a head kick. Sabatello is a brash trash talking wrestling machine with an endless gas tank.  Mix is a talented grappler, great at taking and attacking when on his opponents back. Magomedov is also a wrestler willing to finish by choke, armbar, or by ground and pound.  Carmouche took the Bellator Women’s Flyweight title from Juliana Velasquez in April. A fight that is being ran back because many felt the fight was stopped early.  

Bellator 289 Main Card:

  •  Interim Bantamweight Title: (Interim Champ) Raufeon Stots (19-1) def. Danny Sabatello (13-2) by (45-50, 48-47, 48-47) split decision
  • Women’s Flyweight Title: (Champ) Liz Carmouche (18-7) def. Juliana Velasquez (12-2) by submission (armbar) 4:24 R2
  • Bantamweight Grand Prix: Patchy Mix (17-1) def. Magomed Magomedov (19-3) by submission (guillotine choke) 2:39 R2
  • Middleweight: Dalton Rosta (8-0) def. Anthony Adams (9-3) by (30-27 x3) unanimous decision 

Bellator 288 ‘Prelims’ Under Card:

  • Women’s Flyweight: Ilara Joanne (11-6) def. Denise Kielholtz (6-5) by (29-28, 27-30, 30-27) split decision  
  • Welterweight: Jaleel Willis (16-4) def. Kyle Crutchmer (9-2) by (30-27 x3) unanimous decision  
  • Featherweight: Cris Lencioni (10-3) def. Cody Law (6-2) by (30-27, 28-29, 30-27) split decision 
  • Middleweight: Christian Echols (3-2) def. Pat Downey (1-1) by KO (uppercut) 2:27 R1
  • Featherweight: Kai Kamaka (10-5-1) def. Kevin Boehm (9-6) by TKO (strikes) 2:22 R2 
  • Welterweight: Michael Lombardo (13-3-1) def. Mark Lemminger (12-6) by KO (punch) 4:23 R1 
  • Bantamweight: Cass Bell (6-2) def. Jared Scoggins (10-3) by (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) split decision 

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