Bellator 125 took place on Friday night at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California and the main card on Spike TV was headlined by Melvin Manhoef securing a title shot with a first round victory against Doug Marshall.
Also on the main card, Rafael Carvalho won his Bellator debut with a first round victory over Brian Rogers in his United States debut.
TheMMAReport.com has put together post fight statistics from the fight card and are available below.
- Manhoef has now won back to back fights and both victories have come by knockout in the first round.
- After winning four straight fights in Bellator, Marshall has dropped back to back fights.
- Nine of Carvalho’s ten victories have come by TKO/KO.
- The defeat for Rogers brings his Bellator record to 4-5 and three of those defeats have come by TKO/KO.
- Javy Ayala has gone 3-0 in Bellator and all three victories have come by stoppage.
- Goiti Yamauchi is now tied with multiple fighters for the 3rd most submission victories in Bellator featherweight competition.
- Martin Stapleton has dropped all three of his fights in Bellator and two of the defeats have come by submission in the first round.
- The four main card fights lasted a total of 10 minutes and 31 seconds.
- Julio Cesar Neves improved to 30-0 with a first round victory over Poppies Martinez by TKO and he now has 19 wins by TKO/KO.
- George Zuniga stopped Granson Clark in 34 seconds with a TKO win and this is now the 4th fastest TKO/KO win in Bellator middleweight division history.