Bellator 145 took place on Friday night at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri and the event was headlined by Daniel Straus regaining the featherweight title with a decision victory over Patricio “Pitbull” Freire.
In the co-main event of the fight card, lightweight champion Will Brooks retained the 155 pound title with a decision victory over season ten tournament winner Marcin Held.
TheMMAReport.com has put together post fight statistics from the fight card and are available below.
- Straus joins Eddie Alvarez, Pat Curran, and Joe Warren as the only two-time champions in Bellator history.
- With the victory, Straus is now tied with Curran, Warren, Alexander Shlemenko, and Michael Chandler for the 2nd most wins in Bellator history.
- Straus has the 2nd most cage time in Bellator history (3:22:51).
- The lost for Pitbull snaps a seven fight winning streak and all of his defeats have come by decision.
- Pitbull is now tied for the most fights in Bellator history with Shlemenko, Curran, and David Rickels.
- Brooks is now tied with Liam McGeary for the longest active winning streak in Bellator and tied with Held for the 2nd most wins in Bellator lightweight division history.
- Chandler defeated Rickels by TKO in the second round and he is now tied with Alvarez and Saad Awad for the 2nd most TKO/KO wins in Bellator lightweight division history.
- Chandler has the most wins in Bellator lightweight division history.
- Bobby Lashley stopped James Thompson in 54 seconds by TKO and he is now tied with multiple fighters for the 2nd most TKO/KO wins in Bellator heavyweight division history.
- Lashley is tied with Augusto Sakai for the 4th most wins in Bellator heavyweight division history.