The Fight Nerd spoke with Steve Carl, who this Saturday night will meet Douglas Lima at Bellator FC 49 for the first round of their welterweight tournament. Carl discusses fight strategy against Lima and tells us that he has actually seen the former MFC middleweight champ fight live and did not want to fight him first in the tournament. Carl also talks about what he would do against Ben Askren, and being a former member of the US Armed Forces and Steve is fighting the day before the tenth anniversary of 9-11, tells us about how those events changed his life.