LIVE! Bellator 243 Virtual Media Day Q&A Updates

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Fighters are scheduled to start chatting today (Weds., Aug. 5) at 1:30 p.m. ET from inside Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Bellator 243: “Chandler vs. Henderson 2” takes place this weekend (Fri., Aug. 7, 2020) at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. In the main event, a rematch four years in the making will see Michael Chandler (20-5) and Ben Henderson (28-8) meet for a scheduled three rounds.

Both fighters are scheduled to participate in what the promotion is calling a “Virtual Media Day” this afternoon (Weds., Aug. 5, 2020) starting at 1:30 p.m. ET. In addition to company president, Scott Coker, expected participants include:

Benson Henderson (1:30 p.m.) – Bellator Lightweight
Georgi Karakhanyan (1:45 p.m.) – Bellator Lightweight
Timothy Johnson (2 p.m.) – Bellator Heavyweight
Curtis Millender (2:15 p.m.) – Bellator Welterweight
Valerie Loureda (2:30 p.m.) – Bellator women’s Flyweight
Michael Chandler (2:45 p.m.) – Bellator Lightweight
Matt Mitrione (3 p.m.) – Bellator Heavyweight
Myles Jury (3:15 p.m.) – Bellator Lightweight
Sabah Homasi (3:30 p.m.) – Bellator Welterweight

Selected news and memorable quotes from the participants will be available below.

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Benson Henderson: “For some people it’s kind of hard if you don’t like someone and you’re going to get into a fist fight with them. For me I never really have that problem. I’m cool, calm, collected. I’ve never really had to deal with that situation.”

Henderson: “People see the punching, the kicking, the blood, the gore, but they don’t see there’s a chess match to that. It’s all about the small adjustments. All those little tiny small adjustments play a huge factor into who is going to get their hand raised.”

Henderson: “Wow, this is crazy, there’s no crowd here. This is completely different. I made sure that I went out and had one competition, a jiu-jitsu competition where they had no crowd, so I got to experience it one time so there was nothing in the back of my head with fighting in front of no crowd.”

Georgi Karakhanyan: “I’ve been handling (the pandemic) really well man. I don’t read the news, I don’t watch the media. I got back from Ireland and I’ve just been working, training and getting better. My approach with every fight is to finish, so nothing changes. I’m going out there looking for a finish. (If I win) I plan on coming back in two weeks and fighting again.”

Karakhanyan: “As soon as the fight (with Redmond) was done I facetimed with my mother-in-law. She had the baby literally an hour after the fight was done. This is the third so no more kids for me. Maybe I’ll go chop chop my thing so I don’t have any more babies.”

Karakhanyan: “I think I match up pretty well (with Benson). That’s in the future but I think I’d do really good against Ben. Nothing but respect to him but I think I match up good.”

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Check out the complete Bellator 243: “Chandler vs. Henderson 2” card below:

• Lightweight Main Event: Michael Chandler (20-5) vs. Benson Henderson (28-8)
• Heavyweight Co-Main Event: Matt Mitrione (13-7, 1 NC) vs. Timothy Johnson (13-6)
• Lightweight Main Card Bout: Myles Jury (18-5) vs. Georgi Karakhanyan (29-10-1, 1 NC)
• 175-Pound Contract Weight Main Card Bout: Sabah Homasi (13-8) vs. Curtis Millender (18-5)
• 150-Pound Contract Weight Prelims Bout: Adam Borics (14-1) vs. Mike Hamel (7-3)
• Featherweight Prelims Bout: Cris Lencioni (6-2) vs. AJ Agazarm (3-1)
• Flyweight Prelims Bout: Valerie Loureda (2-0) vs. Tara Graff (1-1)
• Light Heavyweight Prelims Bout: Grant Neal (3-0) vs. Hamza Salim (5-2)
• Lightweight Prelims Bout: Nainoa Dung (3-1) vs. Charlie Campbell (1-1)
• Middleweight Prelims Bout: Dalton Rosta (2-0) vs. Mark Gardner (1-1)

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