Rafael Carvalho and Melvin Manhoef was one of the worst fights of 2016, with Carvalho defending his Bellator MMA middleweight title via controversial split decision. The fight was widely panned for its paucity of offense, something seldom uttered in the same sentence as a Melvin Manhoef fight.
With that in mind ... do you want to see it again?
That’s right! Bellator announced on Friday that Carvalho (13-1) and Manhoef (30-13-1, 2 NCs) will go at it again, this time in Florence, Italy, where Bellator 168 will be staged. This will be Carvalho’s 2nd defense of the belt he won when he stopped Brandon Halsey last year, with both coming against Manhoef.