Ryan Bader (photo via Bellator)

By FCF Staff

Following the latest cross-promotional effort from Bellator and RIZIN, Ryan Bader has called for a fight with Jiri Prochazka.

Prochazka (26-3-1) competed at RIZIN’s NYE event this week and knocked out Bader’s teammate CB Dolloway. Since then, Bellator’s light-heavyweight and heavyweight champ issued the challenge below.

Congrats @jirkaprochazka ‪We couldn’t make it happen in @rizin_PR so let’s do this in the @bellatormma cage. LHW title on the line ‬👊🏽

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Congrats @jirkaprochazka ‪We couldn’t make it happen in @rizin_PR so let’s do this in the @bellatormma cage. LHW title on the line ‬👊🏽

A post shared by Ryan Bader (@ryanbader) on Dec 31, 2019 at 5:31am PST

Bader (27-5, 1 no-contest) is coming off a no-contest fight with Cheick Kongo in September (the latter took an accidental eye poke and could not continue).