Bellator 139 took place on Friday night at the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane, Kansas and the main card on Spike TV was headlined by Cheick Kongo defeating Alexander Volkov by unanimous decision.
Also on the main card, Hisaki Kato made a huge impression in his Bellator debut as he scored a knockout of the year contender with a second round victory against Joe Schilling.
TheMMAReport.com has put together post fight statistics from the fight card and are available below.
- With the victory over Volkov, Kongo is now tied with heavyweight champion Vitaly Minakov for the 3rd most wins in Bellator heavyweight division history.
- After winning five in a row, Volkov has now dropped back to back fights and both defeats have come by decision.
- David Rickels is now tied with Rick Hawn and Patricio Pitbull for the 2nd most fights in Bellator history following his fight against John Alessio being declared a no-contest (unintentional illegal knee).
- Kato is now 5-1 in his career and all of his wins have come by TKO/KO.
- Schilling falls to 2-5 in his MMA career and this is his first MMA defeat by TKO/KO.
- Pat Curran snapped a two fight losing streak with a decision win over Emmanuel Sanchez and he is now tied with Alexander Shlemenko for the 2nd most wins in Bellator history.
- Curran is now tied with Shlemenko for the most fights in Bellator history and has the most cage time (3:49:39).
- Augusto Sakai remained undefeated with a TKO win against Daniel Gallemore and he is now tied for the 2nd most TKO/KO wins in Bellator heavyweight division history.
- Gaston Reyno submitted Greg Scott at the 1:17 mark of the first round and this is the 3rd fastest submission in Bellator featherweight division history.
- Frederick Brown defeated Derek Bohi in 29 seconds by TKO is this is the 5th fastest victory in Bellator heavyweight division history.