– TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Lashley made a triumphant return to the cage in his Bellator MMA debut tonight. Lashley dominated Josh Burns before submitting him in the second round.
Lashley took Burns down early in the first round, and spent the rest of the frame trying to secure a keylock or kimura submission.
Lashley peppered Burns with jabs early in the second round before taking Burns to the ground and hammering him with shots. As Burns tried to make his way to his feet, Lashley secured a rear naked choke to win the fight via submission with 1:06 left in the second round.
“I wanted to do more with my striking, but I always gotta go to my go-to (wrestling),” Lashley said after the fight. “I’ve gotta keep moving forward, I had a pretty good camp this time. There’s no time off, I’m going right back into camp. I’ve got some big training camps coming up, so I’m just going to keep going and seeing what Bellator hands me next.”
With the victory, Lashley improves his MMA record to 11-2, while Burns falls to 8-8.
– King Mo made it 2-0 for TNA-contracted talent in action at tonight’s Bellator MMA event. Like TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Lashley, the sometimes-TNA star finished his opponent, Dustin Jacoby, in the second round. Mo dominated the fight before hammering away at Jacoby on the ground, prompting the referee to stop the fight via TKO at 1:13 in Round 2.
“Let me give a quick shoutout to [Scott] Coker, the Bellator staff, Viacom, Spike TV, TNA Wrestling and my boy Larry Holmes,” Mo said after the fight. When asked what was next, Mo replied, “it’s up to Bellator. I fight at moneyweight… 185, 205, heavyweight, wherever the money’s at, that’s where I’ll be.”
