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Bellator Announces Creation of “World Title Shot Pool’ for Tourney Winners
By FCF Staff
Bellator has announced a significant change to its matchmaking policy, which will allow the promotion to keep its tournament format, but grant multiple title shots.
In a press release sent out by the promotion Thursday, Bellator CEO… Read More
Bellator 120: Will Brooks Promises Fans “Will Definitely Know Who I Am”, After Fighting Michael Chandler For Interim Belt
By Kelsey Mowatt
Will Brooks has likely been mentally preparing for a title fight since he won Bellator’s lightweight tourney last November, but the rising fighter couldn’t have imagined the circumstances that have led to his title… Read More
Bellator 120: Michael Chandler Plans to “Flow” With Loss of Eddie Alvarez Rubber Match, Ready to Battle Will Brooks
By Kelsey Mowatt
Although, for now, Michael Chandler has lost his opportunity to secure a second win over Eddie Alvarez and reclaim the Bellator lightweight title, he doesn’t seem phased by what’s unfolded in the last… Read More
Bellator 120: Marcin Held to Face Nate Jolly
By FCF Staff
With Patricky “Pitbull” Freire sidelined due to injury, Bellator has announced that the lightweight’s scheduled opponent for May 17th, Marcin Held, will battle Nate Jolly instead.
The latter has been booked to fight Will Brooks at Bellator… Read More
Bellator 120: Michael Chandler to Battle Will Brooks for Interim Title, Latter Blasts Critics Who Question Card’s PPV Worth
By Kelsey Mowatt
Although Bellator’s May 17th event has lost its highly anticipated, rubber match between lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler, the card will remain a pay-per-view. The promotion confirmed the news during a media… Read More
Bellator 120: Patricky “Pitbull” Out Due to Hand Injury, Shahbulat Shamhalaev-Fabricio Guerreiro Added
By FCF Staff
Bellator has announced that due to a hand injury, Patricky “Pitbull” Freire will no longer fight Marcin Held at the promotion’s May 17th event in Southaven, Mississippi.
As a result, the promotion has added a featherweight tilt between Shahbulat… Read More
Bellator 120: Blagoi Ivanov-Alexander Volkov, Patricky “Pitbull”-Marcin Held Among Latest Additions
By FCF Staff
Bellator has added three more bouts to the preliminary card for its upcoming pay-per-view debut, two of which are tournament finals.
The promotion has announced that the lightweight final between Patricky “Pitbull” and Marcin Held, which was… Read More
Bellator 110: Scott Cleve Says Efforts to Avoid “Real Job” Behind Recent Run, Expecting “Everything” From Daniel Weichel
By Kelsey Mowatt
It hasn’t taken Scott Cleve long to battle his way into Bellator’s featherweight tournament, as following his successful, promotional debut in October, the Pariah MMA fighter has been booked for the Season 10 competition.… Read More
Bellator Vet And WSOF Newcomer Ryan Ford Weighs in on Recent Cross Promotional Challenge
By Kelsey Mowatt
World Series of Fighting raised thousands of eyebrows throughout the MMA world not long ago, when its executive vice president Ali Abdel-Aziz, challenged Bellator to a cross promotional showdown. Since the card featured prominent and… Read More
Opinion: Bellator 106 Proves Bellator Should Ignore Pay-Per-View Ambitions
By Michael Hatamoto
Instead of potentially striking out with an inaugural pay-per-view flop, Bellator 106 featured a lightweight championship rematch of Michael Chandler vs. Eddie Alvarez and drew an impressive 1.1 million viewers.
The event, which aired on Spike TV,… Read More
Bellator’s Middleweight and Heavyweight Title Fights Swap Events
By FCF Staff
Bellator has announced two significant changes to its upcoming schedule, as upcoming middleweight and heavyweight title fights have swapped events. Middleweight champion Alexander Shlemenko was originally set to battle Doug Marshall at Bellator 108 on November 15th,… Read More
Opinion: Was Tito Ortiz Comeback Doomed From The Beginning?
By Jesse Heitz
Yesterday, news broke that Tito “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Ortiz was forced to withdraw from his scheduled and highly publicized bout with Quinton “Rampage” Jackson at Bellator’s November 2nd Pay-Per-View event. It seems as if it’s… Read More
Opinion: Is Bellator PPV Already Struggling?
By Michael Hatamoto
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney has steadily grown the Bellator brand using mainstream cable TV and weekly MMA tournaments, but must be anxious to see how the promotion’s debut pay-per-view is received on Nov. 2.
The American MMA… Read More
Bellator 101: Despite Breakout Season, Saad Awad Wasn’t Sure Another Tourney Invite Would Come
By Kelsey Mowatt
Although Saad Awad has been competing professionally since 2006, and has fought for big stage organizations in the past, the vet introduced himself to considerably more fans this past spring during Bellator’s lightweight tourney. Not… Read More
Opinion: Alexander Gustafsson Has Right Attitude Heading Into UFC 165
By Michael Hatamoto
UFC light heavyweight contender Alexander Gustafsson seems to have the right mentality as he heads into his title fight against dominant champion Jon Jones.
Even with Gustafsson’s 6-foot-5 frame, which the UFC continues to hype, he still… Read More
Opinion: Bellator Doing The Best With What It Has
By Michael Hatamoto
Former UFC heavyweight fighter Cheick Kongo will make his Bellator debut at Bellator 101 against British fighter Mark Godbeer.
Besides being able to say Godbeer likes to finish his fights – all eight wins… Read More
UFC FN 28: Glover Teixeira Has Best Mixture of Wrestling and Boxing in MMA, Says ATT Coach Nathan Coy
By Kelsey Mowatt
Not only is Glover Teixeira gunning for his 20th consecutive victory today at UFC Fight Night 28 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, but it’s widely believed that if he defeats Ryan Bader, the light-heavyweight will… Read More
Opinion: The Tito Ortiz Debacle Part II
By Jesse Heitz
As many readers are undoubtedly already well-aware, Tito Ortiz is making his return to the cage once again, this time for the UFC’s closest competition, Bellator. We’ve chattered on and on about his return… Read More
Opinion: Time For Tito Ortiz To Call It Quits Already
By Jesse Heitz
In recent pieces I have discussed the impending MMA return of Tito “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Ortiz with a planned November bout against Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in Bellator. I have also briefly talked… Read More
Opinion: Bellator’s First Pay-Per-View
By Jesse Heitz
In November, Bellator plans to air its very first pay-per-view event (more information on this event can be found here on Full Contact Fighter). This transformation is rather groundbreaking for the relative upstart Bellator, which has been… Read More