Bellator 34: Results and Event Recap
Bellator 34 took place on October 28, 2010, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The event featured two championship bouts.
Title fights
Middleweight champion Hector Lombard retained his title with a unanimous decision over Alexander Shlemenko after five rounds. In the women’s 115-pound tournament final, Zoila Frausto defeated Megumi Fujii by split decision to become Bellator’s inaugural women’s champion. This result ended Fujii’s undefeated run.
Other results
On the undercard, Mike Bernhard, Raphael Davis, John Kelly, and Frank Carrillo won decisions. Dan Cramer stopped Igor Almeida by doctor’s stoppage, Ralph Acosta earned a split decision over Tulio Quintanilla, and J.P. Reese stopped Bounmy Somchay with punches.
Why the Championship Results Mattered
Lombard’s victory marked Bellator’s first successful championship defense. Shlemenko had earned the opportunity by winning the promotion’s Season 2 middleweight tournament, making the main event a meeting between an established titleholder and a challenger who had advanced through the tournament system. All three judges scored the five-round contest 49–46 for Lombard.
The women’s final produced a different kind of milestone by establishing a new champion at 115 pounds. Fujii entered with 22 professional victories and no defeats, including 18 wins by submission. Frausto’s split-decision victory ended that unbeaten sequence and completed her own run through the Season 3 tournament.
Both championship contests lasted five rounds, but the judges reached different levels of agreement. Lombard received every judge’s vote, while Frausto won on two cards with the third favoring Fujii. Those outcomes gave Bellator 34 a combination of continuity and change: the middleweight champion remained in place, and the women’s division crowned its first champion at the end of the tournament.
Selected Bout Results
- Hector Lombard defeated Alexander Shlemenko by Decision (Unanimous); round 5, 5:00.
- Zoila Frausto defeated Megumi Fujii by Decision (Split); round 5, 5:00.
- Mike Bernhard defeated Dragan Tesanovic by Decision (Unanimous); round 3, 5:00.
- Raphael Davis defeated Tony Lopez by Decision (Unanimous); round 3, 5:00.
- John Kelly defeated William Kuhn by Decision (Unanimous); round 3, 5:00.
- Ralph Acosta defeated Tulio Quintanilla by Decision (Split); round 3, 5:00.
- Frank Carrillo defeated Moyses Gabin by Decision (Unanimous); round 3, 5:00.
- Dan Cramer defeated Igor Almeida by TKO (Doctor Stoppage); round 1, 2:36.
Sources
Sherdog; Sherdog: Frausto decisions Fujii; Lombard retains.
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Bellator 34, Bellator, Mixed Martial Arts, Event Results
