4 Main Card Predictions For Bellator 123

3. Muhammed Lawal vs. Dustin Jacoby

Weight Class: Light heavyweight It might be a little too soon to label King Mo a bust for Bellator, especially given he recently signed a lengthy contract extension with them, but it's safe to say that his signing hasn't worked out the way the promotion, then under CEO Bjorn Rebney, had planned. King Mo was to be Bellator's big cross-over star. He was a huge name, a former Strikeforce champ, MMA fans knew him, and Bellator signed him along with TNA wrestling in a historic talent-sharing agreement. There was a prime-time special. He was handed a couple of fights that he preformed well in. Then came a shocking loss to Emanuel Newton, who would go on to become Bellator's light heavyweight champion. A fluke, right? After the loss Mo was quickly pushed into another fight with Newton, for an interim belt, which Mo also lost, paving the way to Newton's eventual championship win. It was back to the drawing board, and Bellator came up with King Mo vs. Rampage Jackson. The two had some legit heat, but the promotion opted to highlight their out of cage antics rather than their sheer dominance in the sport (at least until recent times). It still paid off, as the fight, which wound up headlining Bellator's first, and so far only, PPV earned a reported 100,000 buys - but Mo lost. Suddenly, Mo wasn't the face of the company any more. Actually it wasn't even all that sudden - it began the moment Bellator signed Rampage Jackson and Tito Ortiz. The Jackson loss just put the exclamation point on it. Now we're at King Mo 2.0 in Bellator. He's primed for a second run. A rematch with Rampage could be lucrative, or a third fight with Emanuel Jackson, but for now, the pressure is off, and it's time to see if Mo can really hang. He's had his opponent changed several times for Bellator 123, and as it stands, former UFC fighter Dustin Jacoby (10-3) will take on Mo (12-4) in the second bout of the event. Jacoby was winless in the UFC, but to be fair he was originally brought in as a late replacement in 2011 at UFC 137, and his next fight was a loss to Chris Camozzi, after which the promotion cut him. in other words, we really didn't see much of him. Having said that, this is Mo's fight to lose, given he's used to facing a higher level of competition, and has a fantastic wrestling game. He needs to use that here and not roam the cage looking for a one-punch knockout - though he might just win either way. We're calling King Mo by TKO in the second.