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Opposite outcomes for Pico, Corrales at Bellator 214, but Coker says both their futures are bright

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Aaron Pico nearly ended Henry Corrales’ Saturday night early, but then Corrales turned the table on him.

Corrales (17-3 MMA, 5-3 BMMA) pulled off the night’s biggest upset at Bellator 214 with a first-round knockout of Pico (4-2 MMA, 4-2 BMMA) in their featherweight co-main event. Pico nearly was a 6-1 favorite in the fight and had come in with four straight first-round finishes after a huge upset loss in his pro debut.

Bellator 214 took place Saturday at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. The main card aired on Paramount and streamed on DAZN following prelims on MMAjunkie.

After the event, Bellator President Scott Coker said there’s really no sense in him worrying about Pico, one of the promotion’s top prospects.

“From a promoter’s standpoint, our job is to facilitate the fights and put the fights together and give these kids an opportunity to grow and to get to where they want to go,” Coker said. “This is MMA. Nobody is undefeated in MMA for a long period of time. That’s just how it is. One punch, one kick, one submission – it just changes the whole landscape.”

Pico said afterward the lesson he’ll take away from the loss is that he needs to take his time in the cage and blamed his loss at least a little bit on his youth in the MMA gme.

He knocked Corrales down early, but when the veteran survived his initial follow-ups he was able to rally, and it wasn’t long before Corrales landed a massive punch that put Pico out cold for the comeback win.

Pico said he’d love a rematch with Corrales – though he suspects he might have catapulted himself to a title shot with the win. But he also said putting him in there with lesser opponents than Corrales could be a danger to whoever he stands across from.

Regardless of what he has planned for Pico next, Coker said both he and Corrales are just getting started.

“To me, Pico – he almost won the fight, then he got stopped,” Coker said. “That’s just the nature of the beast. I think he’ll go back to the drawing board, he’ll get his learning pad out and put all that energy he put into this fight, and all the strategy and the outcome, and put it into his bank and it’ll help him grow into the future and become a better fighter. That’s my belief.

“These fighters, especially Pico and Corrales, they have years in front of them. In MMA, no one is undefeated.”

For complete coverage of Bellator 214, check out the MMA Events section of the site.

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