There’s been some chatter on Twitter since yesterday’s walk-through that Tito Ortiz’s entrance for tomorrow night’s Bellator 131 event was “big.” TMZ has now published video of a practice run, showing the large video boards and entrance music that will display as “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” walks to the cage.
They have pretty limited Ortiz video footage to use, so they’ve really done the best they can with it.
The plan is clearly to give this event a “big show feel” and the production values are fairly high from this teaser video.
Ortiz faces Stephan Bonnar in a “grudge match” tomorrow night on Spike TV. We will have live coverage of that event, as well as World Series of Fighting’s live event and UFC 180.
The Bellator 131 main card breaks down like this:
Bantamweight: Nam Phan vs Mike Richman
Middleweight: Melvin Manhoef vs Joe Schilling
Light Heavyweight: Mo Lawal vs Joe Vedepo
Lightweight: Will Brooks vs. Michael Chandler
Light Heavyweight: Tito Ortiz vs. Stephan Bonnar