4 Main Card Predictions For Bellator 128

Bellator MMA returns Friday night with little to no major competition in the MMA realm. There's no UFC event this week, and no WSOF, which means Bellator is free and clear of any large scale North American MMA competition. Will this help their overall ratings? We'll find out after the weekend, but they've got a couple of intriguing fights on the card. In the main event, former Bellator featherweight champion Joe Warren, currently the promotion's interim bantamweight champion, looks to knock off full-fledged Bellator bantamweight champion Eduardo Dantas and become the company's first full-blown two weight class champ (he's already sort-of that thanks to the interim title). Pop quiz: what current UFC fighter did Warren beat for the Bellator featherweight title in September 2010? If you guessed recent UFC bantamweight title challenger Joe Soto, you know your obscure fighters granted title shots. Soto was picked up by the UFC recently and thrust into the main event of UFC 177 when Renan Barao injured himself after a weight cut gone wrong. Aside from Dantas vs. Warren, there's also the return of rising sensation Michael Page, who was last seen show-boating his way to victory at Bellator's inaugural Pay-per-View, Bellator 120. Paige is undefeated in his professional MMA career, and comes from a strong martial arts background (his father was a Kung Fu master, his brothers kickboxing champions). Having lost Eddie Alvarez, and being stuck picking up the UFC's scraps, a homegrown talent who can promote would be a huge blessing for Bellator right now, and within the next few fights, we should know if Page just might be it. There are two other fights on the main card, including former TUF contestant and Jon Jones team mate Bubba McDaniel, so lets look at four predictions for Bellator 128.