Bellator 106 medical suspensions: Alvarez and Chandler get 60 days each

Another barnburner delivered by Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler has benched them for two months.

MMAjunkie.com today requested and received medical suspensions for Bellator 106 from the California State Athletic Commission, which oversaw this past Saturday’s event at Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, Calif.

In a thrilling bout, Alvarez avenged his loss to Chandler and won back the Bellator lightweight belt with a split-call in the event’s headliner. After a brief appearance at the post-event press conference, he was taken to the hospital with complaints of nausea, according to Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney.

Chandler received stitches backstage from a CSAC-appointed doctor and returned to his hotel room after the event, according to trainer Eric Del Fierro.

Emanuel Newton, who outpointed Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal in the co-main event to win Bellator’s interim light-heavyweight title, received a two-month suspension for a laceration he suffered during the fight.

The most significant term was issued to Joe Riggs, who won Bellator’s “Fight Master” reality-show with a unanimous decision over Mike Bronzoulis. He is out six months with multiple injuries unless cleared by a doctor.

The full list of suspensions from Bellator 106:

• Eddie Alvarez: suspended 60 days with 60 days no contact, or until cleared by physician, for laceration to left eyelid and paid in orbital bone
• Michael Chandler: suspended 60 days with 60 days no contact, or until cleared by physician, for laceration to left eye
• Emanuel Newton: suspended 60 days with 60 days no contact, or until cleared by physician, for laceration to left cheek
• Muhammed Lawal: mandatory seven-day suspension
• Daniel Straus: mandatory seven-day suspension
• Pat Curran: suspended 60 days with 60 days no contact, or until cleared by physician, for laceration to scalp
• Joe Riggs: suspended 180 days with 180 days no contact, or until cleared by physician, for possible fractured right orbital and right thumb, and suspended 60 days with 60 days no contact for laceration to left eyebrow
• Mike Bronzoulis: mandatory seven-day suspension
• Mike Richman: mandatory seven-day suspension
• Akop Stepanyan: suspended 60 days with 60 days no contact, or until cleared by physician, for laceration to left eyelid, and suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact for TKO
• Cristiano Souza: mandatory seven-day suspension
• Alejandro Garcia: suspended 180 days with 180 days no contact, or until cleared by physician, for possible fractured right forearm
• Brandon Halsey: mandatory seven-day suspension
• Hector Ramirez: suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact for TKO
• Jesse Juarez: mandatory seven-day suspension
• Joe Williams: suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact for hard bout
• Mike Guymon: mandatory seven-day suspension
• Aaron Miller: mandatory seven-day suspension
• Cleber Luciano: suspended 60 days with 60 days no contact, or until cleared by physician, for laceration to right temple
• Joe Camacho: suspended 60 days with 60 days no contact, or until cleared by physician, for laceration to left upper eyelid
• Josh Smith: mandatory seven-day suspension
• Darren Smith: mandatory seven-day suspension

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(Pictured: Eddie Alvarez)