Vadim Nemkov’s first Bellator title protection is within the books.
The Bellator gentle heavyweight champion defeated challenger Phil Davis in a rematch that headlined Friday’s Bellator 257 in Uncasville, Conn. Nemkov (14-2 MMA, 6-0 BMMA) outpointed Davis
The championship bout changed into share of the Bellator gentle heavyweight giant prix. Nemkov advances to the semifinal and can retract on the winner of Anthony Johnson vs. Yoel Romero, which is plan to coast down on Would possibly well also 7.
Within the principle round, each and every warring parties remained standing and no-one tried to retract the circulate to the bottom. On the ft, neither fighter landed the rest main. On the other hand, the champion changed into busier than Davis and landed extra shots.
The second round is the set up the circulate picked up, as Nemkov changed into ready to tumble Davis with an uppercut and force him into survival mode. Davis did a colossal job at warding off further wound and pressed Nemkov in opposition to the cage long ample to bag better, but Nemkov outstruck him for the comfort of the round.
The third round, Davis did the next job at pressing ahead and forcing circulate, but Nemkov peaceable managed to land cleaner and set up rather busier. The champion managed plenty of the circulate on the ft up to that level of the combat.
The fourth changed into worthy of a continuation of the third. Nemkov changed into touchdown extra and had a bigger quantity of strikes. Davis fell within the encourage of but did put collectively to bag up the champion late within the fourth. With a few minute left, Davis linked with an proper hand that rather vastly shocked Nemkov. Within the next exchanges, Davis linked tidy a couple extra instances but didn’t deal wound the Russian. It changed into seemingly Davis’ handiest round.
Within the closing round, Davis tried to capitalize on the momentum of the dwell of the fourth. He pressed the circulate and changed into having a test extra aggressive, making the combat rather a lot nearer and even having a runt edge. It changed into an admirable attempt, but it got right here too late as Nemkov had completed ample to desire the early rounds of the combat.
Nemkov stays unbeaten below the Bellator banner. He received the Bellator 205-pound title stopping Ryan Bader within the second round encourage in August. Nemkov is at this time on a seven-combat winning dawdle. His last loss got right here to fellow Bellator gentle heavyweight Karl Albrektsson encourage in 2016 at Rizin FF 1.
Davis noticed a 3-combat winning dawdle components to an dwell. He’s 5-2 in his last seven outings with the two defeats coming to Nemkov as he has previously lost to the Russian in a atomize up likelihood encourage in 2018.
Reliable Bellator 257 results embrace:
- Vadim Nemkov def. Phil Davis thru unanimous likelihood (48-47, 48-47, 48-47)
- Corey Anderson def. Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov thru TKO (strikes) – Round 3, 2: 15 – advances to gentle heavyweight giant prix semifinal
- Veta Arteaga def. Desiree Yanez thru majority likelihood (28-28, 29-27, 29-27)
- Paul Daley def. Sabah Homasi thru TKO (punches) – Round 2, 1: 44
- Julia Budd def. Dayana Silva thru atomize up likelihood (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
- Julius Anglickas def. Gregory Milliard thru unanimous likelihood (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
- Steve Mowry def. Shaun Asher thru TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 0: 55
- Grachik Bozinyan def. Demarques Jackson thru unanimous likelihood (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
- Raymond Daniels def. Peter Stanonik thru unanimous likelihood (30-27, 30-27, 30-26)
- Lance Gibson Jr. def. Marcus Surin thru unanimous likelihood (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
- Karl Albrektsson def. Viktor Nemkov thru unanimous likelihood (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Mads Burnell def. Saul Rogers thru submission (rear-bare choke) – Round 2, 4: 08
- Pedro Carvalho vs. Jay Jay Wilson def. Pedro Carvalho thru TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 0: 53
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