Key takeaways
Will Brooks beat Dave Jansen by unanimous decision after five rounds in the main event of Bellator 136 at the Bren Events Center in Irvine. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Rafael Carvalho beat Joe Schilling after three rounds.
Across the twelve bouts that produced a result, six by submission and six on the judges' scorecards — six stoppages in twelve fights. Three of the six decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Steve Ramirez, who stopped Jonathan Santa Maria after 0 seconds, and three of the six finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Marcin Held's submission of Alexander Sarnavskiy, 11 minutes and 11 seconds in. End to end, the twelve fights filled two hours and 7 minutes of cage time.
One ranked fighters appeared. The only other ranked name was Alexander Volkov, No. 2 at heavyweight.