Bellator 104 Post Fight Statistics

Bellator 104 took place on Friday night at the US Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and the main card on Spike TV was headlined by the semifinal bouts in the season nine welterweight tournament. Bellator 104

In the semifinal bouts, Ron Keslar defeated Jon “War Machine” Koppenhaver by technical submission after he locked in a rear-naked choke, and Rick Hawn defeated Brent Weedman by unanimous decision.

The main card also feature former UFC fighter Kendall Grove winning his Bellator debut with a decision win over Joe Vedepo, and Peter Graham also won his Bellator debut with a decision victory over Eric Prindle.

TheMMAReport.com has put together post fight statistics from the fight card and are available below.

  • Hawn is now 9-2 in Bellator with 6 of those wins coming as a welterweight, and he has advance to his third Bellator tournament final
  • Weedman falls to 8-4 in Bellator and all of his defeats have come by unanimous decision
  • Keslar’s submission over Koppenhaver was his fifth career submission victory, and three of those have come by rear-naked choke
  • Koppenhaver has been defeated 5 times in his career, and 4 of those losses have come by submission with last two being technical submission due to a rear-naked choke
  • Vedepo made it out of the first round for the first time in five fights and he had not been in a third round since 2008
  • After starting 1-5, Graham has won nine in a row, and this fight mark the first time he made it to a third round
  • Karl Amoussou has dropped two straight fights after winning the season six welterweight tournament
  • Paul Sass won his 13th fight by submission with a first round toe hold submission over Rod Montoya
  • Rob Emerson has won back to back fights with both wins coming by submission
  • Jared Downing has dropped three straight since starting his career 9-1, and he has two defeats have come by stoppage
  • Out of the ten fights at Bellator 104, five of them ended with a submission