Georgi Karakhanyan Feels Bad for Bellator 160 Foe Bubba Jenkins

There was a time not too long ago where the only men to have beaten Georgi Karakhanyan over a 21-fight period were Patricio Freire and Joe Warren. Both of those fighters are former Bellator world champions and aside from those two setbacks, which occurred more than five years ago, Karakhanyan was among the best under the Bellator umbrella. Fast forward to today and Karakhanyan is fighting for his figurative life to remain in contention for not just a title fight, but also relevance. After winning nine straight that included the capturing of the World Series of Fighting and Tachi Palace Fights featherweight belts, the Moscow native lost the WSOF strap to Rick Glenn. From there, Karakhanyan returned to the Bellator fold and submitted Bubba Jenkins in the first thanks to a textbook guillotine, but things quickly turned sour after that. Karakhanyan suffered a torn ACL during training for a proposed rematch with Freire and by the time he had it surgically repaired, he said he rushed into a fight with Daniel Weichel at Bellator 147, losing a unanimous verdict. After finally healing up, he looked to bounce back against Pat Curran, but he lost a lopsided decision at Bellator 155 in a fight where he didn’t look like his typical “Insane” self. “In my last fight with Curran, all I remember is the first two minutes and after I got clipped with that left hook, I was on autopilot and don’t remember anything,” Karakhanyan revealed to Sherdog.com in a recent interview. “I had a …

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