Bellator Prospect Watch: Mike Shipman

Bellator Prospect Watch: Mike Shipman

By Dan McConnell

This is the first of a new series of articles which will focus on Bellator MMA. Bellator Prospect Watch will be a new featured article that hopes to promote those fighters with the promotion who are up and coming stars, exciting prospects and fighters to keep an eye out for in the future.

My first fighter is Mike Shipman. Shipman is an English MMA fighter fighting out London’s Shootfighters camp.

Shipman fights in Bellators middleweight division and has a very interesting nickname in ‘Sea Bass.’

With a professional record of 13-1 with 8 TKO/KOs and 5 submissions, Shipman is one of the most exciting prospects to come out of the UK and has proved he can do it all as a mixed martial artist. His only loss was on his professional debut in 2013, but since then he has remained undefeated.

Shipman has fought current Cage Warriors and former UFC fighter Craig White, winning via KO in the first round.

Currently plying his trade on the Bellator roster he is riding four fight win streak defeating Dominic Clark, Marcin Prostko, Carl Noon at Bellator 200 in London and most recently Scott Futrell at Bellator 210 in Oklahoma on November 2018.

He was allowed to fight for the BAMMA middleweight championship when Bellator created a cross platformed event with the British promotion in 2017. ‘Sea Bass’ defeated the BAMMA middleweight Champion Yannick Bahati by KO/TKO in the third round of their contest.

Shipman was lined up to fight Hracho Darpinyan at Bellator 218 this weekend but unfortunately had to withdraw from their bout due to injury. However, the Londoner has said that he is almost ready to face Bellator middleweight Champion Gegard Mousasi, to hopefully add the Bellator title to his BAMMA, UCMMA and Killcam middleweight championship collection.