Bellator Fighting Championships brings it once again for a second season of spectacular fights – and with a phalanx of hungry fighters signed, sealed and delivered.
Last year, Season One’s tournaments played out in exciting fashion and established Bellator’s inaugural champions.
Rebney’s promotion created huge buzz when the Toby Imada vs. Jorge Masvidal ended in an inverted...
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Roger Huerta, a top free agent in MMA and one of the sport’s brightest young stars, announced today that he has signed an exclusive contract with Bellator Fighting Championships and will compete in the promotion’s upcoming Season 2 lightweight tournament.
The 26-year-old Huerta (20-3-1) comes to Bellator in the prime of his career after a...
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With its Season Two kickoff now less than six weeks away, Bellator Fighting Championships today revealed the Round 1 matchups for its much-anticipated, nationally-televised welterweight tournament.
The four first-round fights will take place as part of Bellator XIV on April 15th and Bellator XV on April 22nd. Bellator XIV will be broadcast live from the...
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Bellator Signs Network Deals For Seasons Two and Three of the Bellator Fighting Championships
The Bellator Fighting Championships rocketed into the MMA consciousness with a first season packed with sensational fights and a fan and fighter-friendly tournament format.
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney said his promotion will add 24 events and expand into the English-speaking television market...
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Here’s the way we see the rankings for MMA fighters from all promotions at this point in time.
Fedor, of course, moves to numero uno if he defeats Brett Rogers in November at the Strikeforce event outside of Chicago.
Junior dos Santos, always a favorite of ours, moved way, way up in our estimation with his...
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According to Bellator Fighting Championships CEO Bjorn Rebney, his promotion has signed a new deal that will give his tournament format fight series a distribution platform to reach both an English and Spanish-language audience of over 150 million households.
Rebney said in an earlier interview with Squabbles.com that the tournament format is what drove the...
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The television deal is finished, it’s done. We’ll be announcing it very, very shortly — in all likelihood, within the next 12 days. We have a situation set up now where we’ll be able to give over 150 million people each week the opportunity to tune in and watch what we’re doing, and that’s...
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Akihiro Gono got slammed, or you might say, he had his wig snapped…
The popular Japanese fighter is expected to make a complete recovery after taking head and neck injuries when he was knocked out by a thumping head kick from Dan Hornbuckle at a Sengoku event on Sunday.
Hornbuckle looks a little shocked as well...
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Dana White Buries the Hatchet With Tito Ortiz
Tito and I have a history that everyone knows. He’s still a guy that everyone wants to see fight. He said his back has healed perfectly and he’s ready to take a shot at the title. He’s one of those guys that people love and people love...
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Forrest Griffin has all the skills, and here, he shows Bellator’s Jason Chambers how to defend against a takedown from an episode of Human Weapon.
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