If anybody was watching Matt Mitrione’s Bellator debut against Carl Seumanutafa with special interest a couple of weeks back, it was big Oli Thompson, whom the promotion brought out from England just for the privilege. Thompson’s mission was to step inside the cage after Mitrione’s fight and challenge him to a fight three weeks from that date if (A) Mitrione won, and (B) if Mitrione didn’t get creamed in the process of winning.
So Thompson’s heart dropped a little bit when Mitrione took a wicked right hand just half-a-minute into the action in St.