source | MMAFighting.com “He made a business decision,” Ortiz told MMAFighting.com on Sunday at the Los Angeles FitExpo where he was promoting his Punishment Athletics brand. “I was bummed. I wanted to fight against him. I guess in the long run, we’re friends. It would have hurt our friendship. We’re …
Bellator® 133: Manhoef vs. Shlemenko Date: February 13, 2015 Venue: Save Mart Center(Fresno, California) Main Card (Spike® TV, 9pm et) Alexander Shlemenko def. Melvin Manhoef via Spinning backfist KO Daniel Weichel def. Pat Curran via decision Julia Budd def. Gabrielle Holloway via decision Chris Honeycutt def. Clayton MacFarlane via TKO(punches) …
source | MMAjunkie.com Freire, who won the belt this past September in a rematch with Pat Curran, previously told MMAjunkie that Bellator has an opportunity to distinguish itself as a fight promoter by rewarding its current talent. “If Bellator can pay fighters the same as the UFC does, give them …
source | MMAFighting.com “I don’t think we’re a minor league at all,” Kay told MMAFighting.com recently at an event to promote Premier Boxing Champions on Spike. “That’s just lawyers talking. They have to position stuff a certain way.” “Bellator athletes lack significant public notoriety, in part because it is a …
Bellator® 133: Manhoef vs. Shlemenko Date: February 13, 2015 Venue: Save Mart Center(Fresno, California) Main card (Spike® TV, 9pm et) Melvin Manhoef vs. Alexander Shlemenko Pat Curran vs. Daniel Weichel Julia Budd vs. Gabrielle Holloway Chris Honeycutt vs. Clayton MacFarlane Prelims (MMAjunkie, 6:45pm et) Nick Bustamante vs. Luis Jauregui John …
source | MMAJunkie.com Bellator MMA is continuing its recent trend of flashy moves to draw eyeballs in 2015. Bellator President Scott Coker made the announcement of what he called a “superfight” for Bellator 134. Muhammed Lawal (14-4 MMA, 6-3 BMMA) will move up to heavyweight to face Cheick Kongo (22-9-2 …
Bellator® 132: Results Date: January 16, 2015 Venue: Pechanga Casino Resort(Temecula, California) Main Card (Spike TV, 9pm et) Patricio Freire def. Daniel Straus via Submission Georgi Karakhanyan def. Bubba Jenkins via Technical Submission Virgil Zwicker def. Houston Alexander via Split Decision Fernando Gonzalez def. Marius Zaromski via Unanimous Decision Prelims …
source | sports.yahoo.com “I really wanted to get back to the belt. I wanted to make sure that mentally I was in the right place and was not here to just be here.” With the win over Wilcox, Straus (23-5) has set himself up for a featherweight title match with …
source | mmajunkie.com Heavyweight fighter Kevin Ferguson – better known as “Kimbo Slice” to many veteran fight fans – is slated for a return to the cage, this time with Bellator MMA. MMAjunkie has confirmed with sources close to the promotion that the veteran slugger, previously known for a series …
Meet new Bellator ring girl, Summer Daniels! She unfortunately replaced our beloved Jade Bryce… but not complaints here 😉 Excited to have @SummerDaniels21 join us this Friday at "Bellator: Pitbull vs Straus" as a #BellatorMMA Ring Girl! pic.twitter.com/bClt2YUT8c — Bellator MMA (@BellatorMMA) January 13, 2015
Super sad to announce that I am no longer with Bellator. They have chosen to go in a different direction for the new year. I worked exactly 99 fights for them over the past 4 years, & it truly was the best 4 years of my life. These pictures are …
source | Sherdog.com By New Year’s Eve, Coker hopes to have had a discussion with one very prominent former employee: retired Russian heavyweight superstar Fedor Emelianenko. The ex-Strikeforce head plans on attending Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2014 in Tokyo on Dec. 31. At some point, he expects to cross paths with “The …
source | MMAFighting.com “He’s a bitch, too,” Lawal said. “It won’t happen. He don’t want to fight me. He would fight Stephan Bonnar, but he wouldn’t fight me. He would fight Alexander Shlemenko, who’s really a smaller 185er, but he won’t fight me. I’m hood and ghetto — I’m from …
source | MMAJunkie.com For Askren – who the UFC opted not to sign after he finished his contract with Bellator, where he reigned as the unbeaten welterweight champ for three years – this new development was equal parts confusing and surprising. “Everyone in the locker room just thought it was …
source | MMAFighting.com “That’s a good question,” Coker told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s The MMA Hour when asked in Bellator is interested in signing Lesnar. “We’ve had a conversation internally and it’s worth a conversation, but that’s something we’ll pursue maybe later into January.” While Coker is playing coy in …
“I am retired, I don’t fight anymore, I lost the desire. So what stops me from generating income now? Are these people going to keep threatening me? They’ll keep coming to sue me every time I work with my image? How is that going to be? This is a shame. …