Bellator 25 brings the 'Polish Pitbull' to Chicago Theatre on Aug. 19
by Press Release on Jul 8, 2010 1:21 PM EDT
Email
Print
CHICAGO (July 8, 2010) - Bellator Fighting Championships announced today that the nationally televised mixed martial arts promotion will return to the Windy City for a Season 3 event at the historic Chicago Theatre on Aug. 19th.
Bellator 25 will mark the Chicago landmark's second-ever mixed martial arts event - the first being Bellator 14 which took place on April 15, 2010. The Bellator 25 card will feature two quarterfinal fights in both the Season 3 Heavyweight and Women's World Championship tournaments.
Headlining the Fox Sports Net event will be undefeated heavyweight sensation Damian "The Polish Pitbull" Grabowski who will make his U.S. debut in a quarterfinal heavyweight world championship tournament fight against knock-out artist Scott Barrett.
Grabowski, who was considered one of the top heavyweight free agents in the world before signing with Bellator, boasts a perfect 13-0 pro record. The Polish Pitbull has not only finished each of his opponents by TKO or submission, but not one of his opponents has yet to see the third round of a fight.
His spectacular tenacity was on full display in April 2009, when he competed in a one-night, 16-man heavyweight tournament in an Austrian promotion that featured no-time-limit bouts. Grabowski dismantled each of his four opponents, winning the tournament with his longest fight lasting only 3:48 into the second frame. In his most recent fight last month Grabowski TKO'd the highly regarded heavyweight Michal Kita in the first round.
Barrett, who owns a four-fight win streak coming into the tournament, fought earlier this year at Bellator 19 where he knocked out formerly undefeated Ty Lee just 2:25 into Round 1.
Bellator 25 will also include an opening-round fight in Bellator's World Championship Women's Tournament featuring Zoila "The Warrior Princess" Frausto and the world's No. 6-ranked flyweight, undefeated Jessica Pene.
Frausto was added to the tournament after she shocked the MMA world recently at Bellator 23 with her stunning KO of the world's top-ranked and heavily favored Rosi Sexton. Sexton was subsequently forced out of the tournament due to a 60-day medical suspension from the Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling Authority. Pene debuted for Bellator in May 2009 with a first round TKO against Tammie Schneider at Bellator 5. Her unblemished record also features a submission victory over fellow tournament participant and No. 8 world ranked 115 pounder, Angela Magana.
In other action, Aisling Daly, the best female mixed martial artist in Ireland and the world's No. 3-ranked 125 lbs. woman, will drop down to 115 lbs. to face 13-5 submission ace and No. 3-ranked flyweight Lisa Ward in the opening round of the World Championship Women's Tournament. The 22-year-old Daly will make her U.S. MMA debut backed by a pristine 9-0 record, while Ward enters the fight with one win already coming under the Bellator banner. Just two weeks ago at Bellator 22, she dismantled Stephanie Frausto with a slick rear naked choke 2:01 into the first round.
The Bellator Season 3 Heavyweight and Women's World Championship tournaments begin Aug. 12 and will once again be televised LIVE in primetime every Thursday night on FOX Sports Net and during special weekend highlight shows on NBC, Telemundo and the cable network mun2.
For more information, visit Bellator.com, follow Bellator on Twitter @BellatorMMA or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Bellator.
6 comments
|
0 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
3 pitbulls just killed this little kid in my neighborhood recently
the brockness monster grinds up teenagers and puts them in his protein shakes..and uses razor blades to chop toddlers up into lines to snort like meth...the reason no one can find bigfoot is because the brockness monster found him years ago and now has him in numerous ziplock bags in the back of his freezer...
i dont buy into the "pitbulls are naturally mean" bs because i had one and my neighbors and friends have them and their great dogs.
i think its just a bad stigma, as was with German Shepherds way back when.
But fuck me if these pitbulls arent on the news for RANDOMLY attacking people all the time. alot of dogs are “mean” when at their homes or on a leash or with their family (pack). But theres has been a ton of pitbulls, running lose and arbitrarily mauling people.
i remember when i had my PB. She just a puppy and i was bringing her into the vet for shots. Older lady out front stopped me said how cute the puppy was and was doing the whole gauking thing. i could tell she was trying to figure out what she was, then she finally asked. I told her andvshe replied “ohhh, arent you scared. what about when it gets big. those dogs are always mean”
Daniel Worby is Mania's Resident Sissy Boy
by SouthCaliStunNa on Jul 8, 2010 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions
The Polish Experiment, The Polish Hammer, The Polish Pitbull
I wont be able to keep all these Polish nicknames straight
I'm always thinking one step ahead. Like a carpenter . . . who makes stairs.
An undefeated heavyweight? Well, I guess Brock will have to leave UFC and go to Bellator to prove he’s No. 1.
Our lives change like the weather, but a legend never dies.
by P-Dub on Jul 8, 2010 4:41 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I'm really looking forward to going to see this
It’ll be my first live MMA fight, though I’ve been a fan for a long time.
Did anyone here go to Bellator 14 at the Chicago Theatre? What tickets should I try to get to have a good view of the cage? I’m on a budget so the $50 and $35 seats are pretty much all i can afford.
"...football games always make me thankful for two things:
1. Teams that pass the ball downfield.
2. Baseball games. "
--DanUpBaby
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
Certain photos copyright © 2012 by Associated Press or Getty Images. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of Associated Press and Getty Images is strictly prohibited.
