Cris Lencioni previews “easy fight” vs. Cody Law at Bellator 289

Chris Lencioni joins Lenny from MyMMANews this week to talk about his upcoming bout vs. Cody Law.

Cris (9-3), will make his second stint at Bellator and his return to the promotion will see him take on highly touted prospect Cody Law (6-1).

Cris’ adversary Cody Law will look to bounce back after suffering his first professional defeat in his last outing vs. James Gonzalez. Law is an NCAA Division II champion and two-time DII All-American out of University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown.

Cris is an accomplished brow-belt in jiu-jitsu in his own right, training out of his own gym Sunshine Athletics based in Canby, Oregon. As previously mentioned, Cris will return to Bellator after going 4-2 in his first tenure. “Sunshine” had a three-fight spell away from the promotion beating former UFC fighter Drako Rodriguez.

Watch Cris Lencioni and Bellator 289 here.

Thanks to Bellator and Chris for setting this up.


A grappler vs. grappler match-up on paper, but where does Cris see the fight playing out?

“Well, I already put a bet out there, he will shoot on me, $1,000, he will shoot on me. If he doesn’t shoot on me and I knock him out in the first, then f**k I owe him another $1,000.

He is like a COVID fighter; they gave him all these fights during COVID when guys didn’t even train. Most of his record doesn’t mean sh*t to me. I pay attention to the fact that he comes from ATT (American Top-Team) and he is a high-level wrestler who thinks he is a boxer. He hasn’t been in MMA too long, so I am much more experienced than this guy, so I am looking forward to it. I don’t see him putting on a hurting to me and if he does then f**k you.

He is going to sniff my crotch for sure…all up in there. He is going to take one hit and go hands will go out just like every wrestler when they take a big hit.

I want the easiest fights over and over again. Cody Law is an easy fight and he’s supposedly ranked number 9, and then I want 8 or 7 whoever is easiest…then eventually number 1 or champion whoever is easiest.”



Cris will make his return to a big promotion, and he feels it is where he should have been all along:

“The last two years I have been incredibly frustrated, because I knew I was top level in MMA. I like to look at it like baseball, you got single A, double A, triple A and then you got the big leagues. There are so many MMA fighters out there that think they are big league material, but they are double A or triple A. I know I am big league material…the only bad guy I have fought is a guy with a record of 11-10 that is still 21 MMA fights that is a lot. He is 50/50 pretty much, that is a dangerous man, he will either beat your arse or you will be his arse…you don’t know what flavor you will get.”

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Lenny March
Aspiring reporter. First locked my eyes on MMA in 2011, and from that night I knew I was invested - haven't took my eyes of MMA since. Growing up watching some of the greats to lock horns, and watch the best MMA has to offer, GSP,Silva, Jones and many more. Been dedicated more then ever to write articles for MMA more then ever, the mission is to get to the top and wont stop until that is accomplished,