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‘This game is ruthless’: Fighters react to Sergio Pettis’ unreal comeback KO at Bellator 272

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Sergio Pettis may not be thought of as a KO artist, but there’s never a bad time to start.

The younger Pettis brother stunned the MMA world on Friday night by starching RIZIN bantamweight champion with a fourth-round spinning back fist in the main event of Bellator 272. Pettis was getting dominated in the bout and was just minutes away from being down four rounds to zero to Horiguchi before pulling off one of the wildest comebacks of 2021.

Check out how the pros reacted to Pettis’ highlight-reel defense of his Bellator bantamweight title below.



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Bellator 272 results: Live streaming play-by-play updates | Pettis vs. Horiguchi

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Bellator 272 goes down tonight (Fri., Dec. 3, 2021) inside Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., airing exclusively on SHOWTIME (watch it here). Headlining the event is a Bantamweight title fight between division kingpin Sergio Pettis taking on RIZIN 135-pound roost ruler, Kyoji Horiguchi. In the co-main event, Emmanuel Sanchez will battle Jeremy Kennedy in Featherweight action.

Many readers check in before, during and after the fights to share their thoughts on all of the action. Feel free to leave a comment (or 272) about the bouts and chat with all the other Maniacs during the show — it’s always a lot of fun!

BELLATOR 272 QUICK RESULTS:

135 lbs.: Sergio Pettis vs Kyoji Horiguchi
145 lbs.: Emmanuel Sanchez vs Jeremy Kennedy
185 lbs.: Johnny Eblen vs. Collin Huckbody – Eblen via first round technical knockout
135 lbs.: Josh Hill vs. Jared Scoggins – Hill via second round knockout
155 lbs.: Alexandr Shabliy vs. Bobby King – Shabliy via unanimous decision
145 lbs.: Kai Kamaka III vs. John de Jesus – Kamaka III via unanimous decision
170 lbs.: Levan Chokheli vs. Vinicius de Jesus – Chokheli via unanimous decision
155 lbs.: Justin Montalvo vs. Jacob Bohn – Montalvo via unanimous decision
155 lbs.: Killys Mota vs. Mike Hamel – Hamel via split decision
155 lbs.: Spike Carlyle vs. Dan Moret – Carlyle via third round sub. (rear-naked choke)
170 lbs.: Oliver Enkamp vs. Kyle Crutchmer – Crutchmer via unanimous decision

BELLATOR 272 PLAY-BY-PLAY

Sergio Pettis vs. Kyoji Horiguchi

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Round 5:

Final Result:

Emmanuel Sanchez vs. Jeremy Kennedy

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Final Result:

Josh Hill vs. Jared Scoggins

Round 1: Low kick for Scoggins, then a high kick. Thy clinch up against the cage. Knees to the body from Hill. They separate. Not a ton of action three minutes in. High kick attempt from Scoggins catches nothing but air. Low kick from Hill. They trade in the center of the cage and both land. High kick from Scoggins whiffs again. Low kick from Hill. One-two from Scoggins barely clips his foe. Hill with a nice right hand. They exchange kicks again. Scoggins kicks to the body and Hill catches it and manages to take him down. Hill trying to get some separation but Scoggins holding on tight. 10-9 Hill

Round 2: They exchange kicks again. They trade blows but nothing lands. And out of nowhere Hill lands a huge right hand and knocks Scoggins out cold! WOW!

Final Result: Hill def. Scoggins via second round knockout

Johnny Eblen vs. Collin Huckbody

Round 1: Low kick from Eblen to kick things off. Body kick by Eblen. Two right hands from Eblen find a home. Eblen goes in and starts unloading on Huckbody with one vicious strike after another. Huckbody goes down, and gets back up. Eblen puts his foot on the gas pedal and continues the onslaught. The referee has no choice but to step in and put an end to the fight after Huckbody turned his back. One-side quick win for Eblen.

Final Result: Eblen def. Huckbody via first round technical knockout

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Clay Collard upsets Anthony Pettis by unanimous decision in PFL main event

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Anthony Pettis, the main attraction of Friday night’s season-opening event in the Professional Fighting League, is known as “Showtime.” But Clay Collard stole the show.

Collard knocked down Pettis, the former UFC lightweight champion, twice in Round 2 and survived a head-kick knockdown in the third round to take a unanimous-decision victory in the PFL’s headline fight at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In a meeting of two fighters making their PFL debuts, Collard was the aggressor throughout, moving forward with an unrelenting assault of punches and kicks. Pettis, who was listed as a -588 favorite by Caesars Sportsbook by William Hill, defended well for the first round and into the second, but two minutes into the middle round Collard hurt him with a body punch, then dropped him with a left to the head. Pettis got back to his feet and escaped along the cage, but Collard went right back to pursuing him and again hurt Pettis with a body punch before dropping him a second time.

Pettis, a 34-year-old from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, appeared badly hurt, and even though Collard could not finish him, an upset was brewing. Midway through Round 3, however, the flashy, creative Pettis wobbled Collard with a head kick and floored him with a knee. Suddenly, it appeared that he might get the finish. But Collard survived to the horn, then raised his arms triumphantly, anticipating the decision.

Two judges scored the bout 29-27, and the other had it 29-28, all in Collard’s favor.

This was not the first time Collard (19-8-1) has pulled off a surprise. The 28-year-old, who fights out of Las Vegas, is a longtime MMA fighter who took up pro boxing a few years ago. In 2020 he won five in a row in the boxing ring.

Pettis (24-11), who reigned in the UFC from 2013 to 2015, was not the night’s only upset victim.

A pair of two-time defending PFL season champions also lost their fights. Lance Palmer, who won the $1 million featherweight prize in both 2018 and 2019, saw his 11-fight winning streak end in a lopsided decision loss to old collegiate wrestling rival Bubba Jenkins. And Natan Schulte, the lightweight champion in both of those years, dropped a much closer decision to Marcin Held.

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