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00:00Then, just before the fight, due to weight cut issues,
00:03Reddinghouse missed weight by almost 5 pounds.
00:05So he was yanked before the fight and replaced by Marcilio Alves,
00:08who was supposed to be an alternate and now was thrust into the main event of this card.
00:13And boy, did he show up, the 25-year-old Brazilian coming in there
00:16against a 36-year-old Brazilian, a guy who he probably has looked up to for years
00:20in the fighting community down there.
00:22Takes him out. He had a 1-on-1 Bellator record.
00:24He gets the win, Alves, by split decision.
00:27It was quite a battle, Alves, coming in there.
00:29Very interesting.
00:30Higo, you know, bouncing all around, looking to do his thing.
00:32Alves kind of flat-footed, just looking for his shots,
00:35looking to pick apart the earlier statesman Higo.
00:38Higo had a good run of shots with about a minute left,
00:41but, you know, Alves had a good shot earlier,
00:43stopping the Higo takedown defense, attempts, stuffing him,
00:47hitting him with the shots. I thought he won the first round.
00:49Second round, no one's really landing some big shots,
00:51but Higo keeps going for those takedowns, keeps getting stuffed.
00:53Alves landed some shots throughout the fight here and there,
00:55nothing that, you know, was really huge.
00:57But, now, Alves up two rounds to none for me.
01:01Third round, Alves started to slow down a little bit,
01:03starting to switch stances.
01:04That leg started to bottom, that, you know, front leg
01:06that had been worked on by Higo a couple times
01:09throughout the first two rounds.
01:10And then Higo started to come alive,
01:12especially later in the fight.
01:14Starts to get his takedown stuffed,
01:16but still is able to get some good leg hits.
01:18You know, another high kick with one minute left.
01:20Starts to pick apart his opponent.
01:22Starts to actually get some shots in there.
01:24Tried to get the leg tanked down, but couldn't follow through.
01:25I thought that that was Higo's best round.
01:28I thought he won the third, but it was too little, too late.
01:31I had a 29-28 Alves on my card.
01:33Judges have it 29-28 on two cards, 28-29 the other way.
01:37So, it is a split decision win for Alves to pull the upset.
01:41Says he felt amazing going in.
01:43He's going to become a champion.
01:44He's going to rip through these guys.
01:46That he respected his opponent and Higo,
01:48that he'd been planning for him,
01:49but it was the job for him to go in there and beat him,
01:51and that's what he did.
01:53Says his leg's a little bruised, but he'll be back to training,
01:54and he's going to face Jake Hadley in the semifinals.
01:57We'll talk about his fight later on.
02:00The co-main event became Liz Carmouche, the guerrilla,
02:03against Ilara Joani.
02:05Joani, the Brazilian, the 30-year-old,
02:06was a former Bellator and PFL fighter,
02:08lost three fights in a row before winning her last one.
02:10Now coming in against Carmouche, the 41-year-old American,
02:12the guerrilla who's fought in the UFC,
02:14Bellator, PFL, former Bellator title holder,
02:17and she just did what you should when you get a lesser opponent
02:21who's coming in there and not having that same experience.
02:24She dominated her.
02:25He's dropped her with a right cross and a trip in the first punch of the fight.
02:28Early on, rushed forward, beat her up a little bit against the cage.
02:31Eventually, she got some uppercuts and some knees to the body,
02:35beating up her opponent with just one minute left in the fight.
02:38She survived a submission attempt and then just took her down
02:41and started pounding on the body.
02:42You know, she's nicknamed the guerrilla,
02:44and she was just throwing fists like Donkey Kong,
02:46just pounding her to the body as she was up against the cage
02:49before the ref finally gets in there and stops it.
02:52She talked about how even though she's later in her fight career here,
02:55for one of the first times ever, got a nutritionist,
02:57got a coach to help her through the weight cut,
02:59and it was one of her easiest ever.
03:00Said she feels great.
03:02Wanted to get some bucklet finishes.
03:03They were talking about that throughout the fight.
03:05One of those apparently was beating up the body with the liver shots.
03:07She gets that one.
03:08She also talked about maybe getting some submissions later on.
03:10We'll see if that comes to fruition later in the tournament,
03:13but she's one of the favorites in this tournament
03:15and will probably be even more so after Santos and Velasquez.
03:20Santos drops out.
03:21Velasquez ends up losing, which we'll talk about later.
03:23Now she'll face Laura Donna in the semifinals.