With his continual leukemia now in full remission, Bryan Baker kicked off his 2011 campaign with a bang Saturday, dropping Joe Riggs with a small hook to gain a spot in Bellator Fighting Championships’ 5th-season middleweight tournament.
“My heart was ready. I coached my mind. I knew my body would follow,” Baker said at the Bellator Forty Three post-fight announcements event. “I was Hundred per cent certain. I finished game plan. My coach, Thomas Denny, put together a splendid game plan, and I carried out it.”
Baker castigated the UFC veteran with knees in the clinch before ending Riggs’ night with a left hand at 3:53 of the second round.
Following his triumph, Baker took center cage once more, though that time there would be no fight. The middleweight as a option dropped to a knee and suggested wedding to his girl friend, Megan Vargas, who approved in front of the crowd at the First Council Casino in Newkirk, Okla.
“My heart is just doing back-flips right now,” said Baker. “I could’t express how much that young woman looks after me and how much I love her. I wanna give planet to her. That cage is hers to the amount that it is my own. We’re going to overcome it together. There are tons of fine things in shop for us.”
With the triumph, Baker moves one step nearer to a shot at Bellator’s middleweight title. The California-based “Beast” has knocked on that door before, as he fought his way to the finals of the promotion’s Season Two tournament, finally losing to Alexander Shlemenko in their June 2010 ultimate.
Baker can get a possibility to avenge that loss, as Shlemenko may in addition uncover his way in the forthcoming tournament if he is apt to navigate Brett Cooper at Bellator Forty Four on May Fourteen. Bellator Season Five is anticipated to kick off Sept. Seventeen at Bellator Forty Nine. Till then, Baker will have to focus on different things, like setting a date for his marriage.
“My heart was ready. I coached my mind. I knew my body would follow,” Baker said at the Bellator Forty Three post-fight announcements event. “I was Hundred per cent certain. I finished game plan. My coach, Thomas Denny, put together a splendid game plan, and I carried out it.”
Baker castigated the UFC veteran with knees in the clinch before ending Riggs’ night with a left hand at 3:53 of the second round.
Following his triumph, Baker took center cage once more, though that time there would be no fight. The middleweight as a option dropped to a knee and suggested wedding to his girl friend, Megan Vargas, who approved in front of the crowd at the First Council Casino in Newkirk, Okla.
“My heart is just doing back-flips right now,” said Baker. “I could’t express how much that young woman looks after me and how much I love her. I wanna give planet to her. That cage is hers to the amount that it is my own. We’re going to overcome it together. There are tons of fine things in shop for us.”
With the triumph, Baker moves one step nearer to a shot at Bellator’s middleweight title. The California-based “Beast” has knocked on that door before, as he fought his way to the finals of the promotion’s Season Two tournament, finally losing to Alexander Shlemenko in their June 2010 ultimate.
Baker can get a possibility to avenge that loss, as Shlemenko may in addition uncover his way in the forthcoming tournament if he is apt to navigate Brett Cooper at Bellator Forty Four on May Fourteen. Bellator Season Five is anticipated to kick off Sept. Seventeen at Bellator Forty Nine. Till then, Baker will have to focus on different things, like setting a date for his marriage.
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