Bellator 117 took place on last night at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa and the main card on Spike TV was headlined by Douglas Lima winning the vacant welterweight title with a second round victory against Rick Hawn. 
Also on the main card, Patricky Pitbull and Marcin Held advance to the season ten lightweight tournament final with two round victories as Pitbull stopped Derek Campos with strikes, and Held submitted Derek Anderson with a triangle choke.
TheMMAReport.com has put together post fight statistics from the fight card and are available below.
- Lima is now tied with Lyman Good for second most wins (8) in Bellator welterweight division history (Ben Askren – 9)
- Lima has now won five fights in a row and his last seven wins have come by TKO/KO
- Prior to Bellator 117, Hawn had never been defeated by TKO/KO. He now has the most fights in Bellator history (13) and the sixth most cage time (2:16:55)
- Held earned his tenth career win by submission and it was his first submission by triangle choke. Also, he has 7 wins in the Bellator lightweight division, which is second most in divisional history (Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler – 8)
- After dropping three in a row in 2012-2013, Pitbull has won three in a row and has 6 wins as a Bellator lightweight, which is tied for third most wins in Bellator lightweight history with Dave Jansen
- Karl Amoussou picked up his first victory since winning the season six tournament (638 days ago)
- Jared Downing lost his fourth straight fight after starting his career 9-1
- Joe Vedepo’s :48 second verbal submission victory over Ben Crowder on the preliminary card is the fourth fastest submission in Bellator middleweight history
- Anthony Smith snapped a three fight losing streak with a triangle choke submission over Victor Moreno and his last two submission victories have been by triangle choke
- Julio Cesar Neves remained undefeated (29-0) with a second round TKO win over Josh Arocho in his United States and Bellator debut
- Ryan Jenson has now won five in a row since his exit from the UFC and all five wins have come in the first round