Sanchez (12-3), of Vista, Calif., has never lost outside of the UFC’s Octagon. Grove (8-2-1) holds a win over James Thompson and was defeated by Mike Ciesnolevicz in his only UFC appearance.
“Both Eddie and Neil are known for their finishes so this should be an exciting fight,” stated Bellator founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney in a press release. “In addition, fans watching Bellator 24 at the Hard Rock and on our national TV broadcasts will also get a chance to see some outstanding fights featuring stars like Hector Lombard and Megumi Fujii. It’s going to be a great night in South Florida on Aug. 12.”
Aug. 12’s event and all Bellator season three shows will air live on Fox Sports Net, and will replay weekly in edited format on NBC, Telemundo and mun2.
Boxing could be enjoying a major B-12 shot right now. Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather could be hyping the second in a highly lucrative series of fights. They could be setting up other contenders for when that well runs dry. Someone could be trying to make sense of the dropped dinner plate that is the heavyweight division.
Instead, Pacquiao is mulling offers for rematches that mean nothing while Mayweather is riding his Segway around a mansion paid for by fans who had some foolish expectation he was a competitor. And their sport is sinking into the ground.
Monday, July 19 8:20 am PT: He needs money, but that’s hardly the problem: Michael Jordan has more than the Federal Reserve, but they had to drag him off the court.
He’s old, but that’s not quite it, either. You can shut him down before he takes too much damage. It’s the young guys who can hang in there for a beating you have to worry about.
It’s that Ken Shamrock still thinks he breathes fire. Hearing him talk about “getting in Pedro Rizzo’s face” and working him over standing -- Pedro Rizzo, the kickboxer who turned Randy Couture into a temporary cripple -- is Shamrock lulling himself into a kind of self-hypnosis.
