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By FCF Staff

Although the headliner for Friday’s Bellator 115 card remains intact, the Reno bound event has lost two scheduled bouts.

The promotion has announced that Sam Oropeza will no longer fight Andrey Koreshkov tomorrow night, due to the … Read More

By FCF Staff

You can watch the official weigh-ins for tomorrow’s Bellator 115 card in Reno, Nevada, beginning right here at 8 PM/ET-5PM/PT.

The event, which will be hosted by the Reno Events Center, will feature heavyweight champion Vitaly Minakov … Read More

Kimball Replacing Suspended Marshall

By FCF Staff

Bellator has released the complete line-up for the promotion’s April 4th event, which will go down at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada. Bellator 115 will be headlined by a heavyweight bout … Read More

By FCF Staff

Bellator has announced that it’s returning to Canada for its 119th card, which will take place May 9th, at the Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario.

The event will feature the finals for Bellator’s upcoming heavyweight tourney, as … Read More

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 established fighters … Read More

By FCF Staff

World Series of Fighting and Bellator MMA are widely considered to be next in line to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and in an effort to determine North America’s number two promotion, WSOF has proposed a pay-per-view showdown … Read More

By FCF Staff

Following its rating success from Bellator 106, SPIKE has announced that the recent Bellator debut of former UFC champ “Rampage” Jackson also drew big numbers for the network.

According to figures that SPIKE has released on Tuesday, … Read More

By FCF Staff

Here are the official weigh-in results for tomorrow night’s Bellator 108 card in Atlantic City, which will feature “Rampage” Jackson taking on Joey Beltran in the main event.

Both UFC veterans made weight for their 210 catch-weight … Read More

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

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Bellator promoted a star studded card tonight in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and several of the promotion’s biggest names recorded impressive wins.

Armed with a new eight fight contract, Michael Chandler needed little time to put away David … Read More

By FCF Staff

Here are the official weigh-in results for Bellator’s latest event, which will take place tomorrow night at the Santa Ana Star Casino in New Mexico. The stacked card will feature lightweight champion Michael Chandler taking on David … Read More

By FCF Staff

Bellator has announced the final line-up for the promotion’s July 31st card in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which will feature lightweight champion Michael Chandler taking on David Rickels, and welterweight champ Ben Askren fighting Andrey Korseshkov.

The card, … Read More

By FCF Staff

Bellator will kick off its “Summer Series” event tomorrow in Thackerville, Oklahoma, and several of the scheduled competitors missed weight on their initial attempts this afternoon.

One of the fighter’s who missed their mark was light-heavyweight tourney … Read More

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One day before Bellator is set to begin its summer series heavyweight tourney, the promotion has announced that Ryan Martinez is replacing Vincius Queiroz. “Spartan” has reportedly been forced to withdraw due to a knee injury, and … Read More

By FCF Staff

Bellator has announced the competitors for the promotion’s upcoming, heavyweight “summer series” tournament, which will get underway on June 19th. Due to time commitments, all tournaments that are held this summer will only feature a semifinals and … Read More

By FCF Staff

Richard Hale and Shahbulat Shamhalaev advanced to their respective Bellator tourney finals tonight in Rama, Ontario, by scoring stoppage wins.

Hale entrenched a spot in the heavyweight tournament final by earning a TKO win over Thiago Santos, … Read More

By FCF Staff

Bellator held the official weigh-ins today for its latest event Friday night, which will feature semifinal bouts in the promotion’s heavyweight and featherweight tournaments.

In the heavyweight semifinal, Richard Hale will take on Thiago Santos, while at … Read More

By Michael Hatamoto

Bellator and Russian broadcaster Russia 2 entered a partnership in which MMA fights will be shown to a potential audience of more than 83 million.

Bellator and Russia 2, which is the biggest Russian sports network, will … Read More

By FCF Staff

Undefeated 23-year-old lightweight (155 pounds) rising star Alexander “Tiger” Sarnavskiy (20-0) is the latest talent to join the growing Bellator Fighting Championships roster.

A student of Bellator middleweight (185 pounds) contender Alexander “Storm” Shlemenko, Sarnavskiy has earned … Read More