A good Bellator card, and okay Bellator card, and a bad Rizin card

June M. Williams

Zane Simon, Eddie Mercado, and Victor Rodriguez are back to breakdown this week’s Bellator cards in Thackerville, Oklahoma and Dublin, Ireland. Plus a little chat about this week’s RIZIN card in Hamamatsu, Japan.

With the UFC putting together a decent, but not big name fight card in Auckland, NZ this week, there’s plenty of opportunity for other MMA promotions to get a little shine of their own. Bellator is taking full advantage with a strong fight card in Thackerville, OK, headlined by a welterweight bout between Yaroslav Amosov and Ed Ruth. They’ve also got a less notable offering the next night in Dublin, Ireland, headlined by Brent Primus vs. Chris Bungard.

That’s all accompanied by RIZIN 21, perhaps one of the least notable cards put together by the feature Japanese promotion to date. We’re covering it all in as much depth as each one deserves.

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Here’s a look at all three main cards as they stand right now:

BELLATOR 239 MAIN CARD | 9PM EST on Paramount & DAZN
Ed Ruth vs. Yaroslav Amosov
Brandon Girtz vs. Myles Jury
Tyrell Fortune vs. Timothy Johnson
Javy Ayala vs. Valentin Moldavsky

BELLATOR 240 MAIN CARD | Paramount & DAZN tape delay
Brent Primus vs. Chris Bungard
Kiefer Crosbie vs. Iamik Furtado
Ricky Bandejas vs. Frans Mlambo
Oliver Enkamp vs. Lewis Long
Bec Rawlings vs. Elina Kallionidou

RIZIN 21 POST-INTERMISSION CARD
Mikuru Asakura vs. Daniel Salas
Masanori Kanehara vs. Victor Henry
Hideki Sekine vs. Roque Martinez
Falcao Neto vs. Marcos de Souza

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