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This time it’s personal as Prindle faces Santos for the Heavyweight Tournament Championship

CHICAGO, Ill. (January 27, 2011) — Bellator Fighting Championships returns to the Bayou State on Friday, March 16 for Bellator 61 live from Bossier City at the Horseshoe Riverdome. The night will feature the long awaited rematch between “The American Solider” Eric Prindle (@EricPrindleMMA) and “The Big Monster” Thiago Santos (@BigMonsterMMA) to determine a winner from last season’s heavyweight tournament, as well a host of local talent from the Louisiana area.

Tickets for the event are now on sale and can be purchased online at Riverdome.com, by phone at 888-512-SHOW (7469) or by visiting The Gift Horse at Horseshoe Bossier City Casino. Tickets are priced from $25-$75. The event will also be broadcast LIVE starting at 7 p.m. CST. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. CST, with the first fight scheduled for 6 p.m. CST. The preliminary card, featuring the area’s top local talent will be streamed LIVE and FREE around the world on Spike.com starting at 6 p.m. CST.

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During last night’s broadcast of “The Showdown”, I was joined by Canadian lightweight Mitch “The Machine” Gagnon as well as Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of MMAJunkie.com, Dann Stupp.

The show starts off with a recap of the past week’s MMA headlines, news and results.

Then, Gagnon joins the show to discuss what went wrong with his visa application. The issue prevented the “The Machine” from making his UFC debut vs Jonny Bedford, a bout that was set to take place Saturday night during the UFC on Fox 2 prelims. Mitch describes the process, why it can be looked at as a positive and what is required for him to officially garner his work permit.

The second segment of the show was dedicated to the highlights from the UFC on Fox 2 pre-fight press conference.

Highlighted by headliners Rashad Evans and Phil Davis, we played the banter between the two, but perhaps, the real one who shined with his verbiage was Chael Sonnen, whose clips we also played during the segment.

In the final segment, I was joined by Stupp, who shared with us “the pulse” of ChiTown, as the city prepares for Saturday’s night’s big event. Dann offered his thoughts on what went down at Wednesday’s media workouts, how Sonnen seems to sucker all media into his role playing and what we can expect from Saturday night’s main event.

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