Bellator 106, with Alvarez-Chandler bloody battle, replays Friday on Spike TV

Did you miss this past week’s Bellator 106 event? Or do you just want to catch one of the year’s best fights one more time?

Well, don’t fear. Spike TV will replay Bellator 106, which featured the bloody “Fight of the Year” contender lightweight title fight between champion Michael Chandler and former champ Eddie Alvarez. The replay takes place Friday at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT) and will lead into that night’s live event, Bellator 107.

Bellator 106 originally was scheduled to be a pay-per-view with Tito Ortiz vs. Quinton Jackson in the main event. But an Ortiz injury forced him off the card, and promotion and Spike officials elected to scrap paid TV plans to put the adjusted card on free TV. The move seems to have paid off in the ratings department, with Spike TV officials saying the event set a new Bellator high-water mark with 1.1 million viewers – the most in the promotion’s history. Spike TV said in a statement that the card peaked at 1.4 million viewers.

But the length of the show may have caused fans who set their DVRs to miss the end of the main event, which saw Alvarez top Chandler in a bloody five-round war in a rematch that arguably topped their first fight in 2011, which for many was the “Fight of the Year.”

Now fans can catch the main card again, including two more title-fight upsets as Daniel Straus beat Pat Curran for the featherweight belt and Emanuel Newton again beat Muhammed Lawal, this time to capture the interim light heavyweight title.

For complete coverage of Bellator 106, stay tuned to the MMA Events section of the site.