The Bellator season six lightweight tournament has just a wee snag, as one of their competitors has been forced to withdraw due to some jail time. The fighter formerly known as Jon Koppenhaver, War Machine will be serving a year in the slammer, but not for new charges. “Seems my year in jail wasnt enough,” [...]
Bellator Fighting Championships returns to the Bayou State on Friday, March 16 for Bellator 61 live from Bossier City at the Horseshoe Riverdome. The night will feature the long awaited rematch between “The American Solider” Eric Prindle and “The Big Monster” Thiago Santos to determine a winner from last season’s heavyweight tournament, as well a [...]
brightcove.createExperiences(); Fight Nerd reporter Hiroko Yamamura caught up with former Bellator FC lightweight champion, Eddie Alvarez, at yesterday’s UFC on Fox 2 press workout to help with Michael Johnson during his last week of fight prep against Shane Roller. Eddie confirmed his bout against Shinya Aoki for us, saying the fight will be in April [...]
In an interview with Fighters Only, Lashley told them that Fedor’s management is looking for his next opponent, and his name is on the list of potential matchups. “I’m going to throw everything at him that I can. Of course, my wrestling’s there, I don’t give a damn what he’s doing. I’d put my wrestling [...]
As Bellator Fighting Championships prepares for its highly anticipated sixth season, the promotion has once again added a premier talent from across the globe, this time signing undefeated Russian welterweight phenom Andrey “Spartan” Koreshkov. Last year, Bellator signed highly-touted Douglas Lima, who went on to win the Season 5 Welterweight Tournament and will face Ben [...]
As Bellator Fighting Championships prepares to make the jump to Friday nights, the tournament fields are beginning to take shape as the lightweight and welterweight tournament participants have been revealed. Bellator’s sixth season begins Friday, March 2nd LIVE on MTV2 and in commercial-free HD on EPIX, with the preliminary fights being streamed LIVE and FREE [...]
Shinya Aoki put a grappling clinic on Satoru Kitaoka at this weekend’s DREAM New Year’s Eve show, making his friend bleed and dominating him through the course of their bout. Impressing many with his new striking prowess from his training at Evolve MMA, Aoki’s harshest clinic has been himself. “I am grateful for the win, [...]
Bellator Fighting Championships announced today that it will host an open tryout on Saturday, January 28th that will provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an undiscovered professional fighter to possibly earn a spot in one of the organization’s upcoming events. The tryout will take place at Daddis Fight Camps in Philadelphia on January 28th, with registration [...]
In March of 2012, former Judo Olympian and runner up in the Bellator season five welterweight tournament Rick Hawn will return to the Bellator promotion, this time at 155 pounds. While the tournament runner-up has had a great deal of success at welterweight, having only tasted defeat once in his MMA career with a razor-thin [...]
In a continuing effort to scout and sign the world’s best talent, Bellator Fighting Championships has added two dynamic bantamweights in Masakatsu Ueda (pictured left) and Hiroshi “Iron” Nakamura. Both will compete in the promotion’s upcoming Season 6 Bantamweight Tournament, joining Alexis Vila, Marcos Galvao, Ed West, Rodrigo Lima, Luis Nogueira and a yet to [...]
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