Tyler Stinson, a 24-year-old native of Winfield, Kansas, was the unanimous winner of an open tryout sponsored by Bellator Fighting Championships on Saturday, earning him a chance to fight in Bellator’s upcoming nationally-televised event at the Kansas City Power & Light District on April 29th.
Stinson was one of 72 fighters from as far...
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An undefeated fighter from Cincinnati and a police officer from Scandinavia are the latest additions to Bellator Fighting Championships’ upcoming Season 2 lightweight tournament.
The two fighters — Janne Tulirinta (12-3) and Chad Hinton (6-0) — join Ferrid Kheder, Mike Ricci and Carey Vanier in the nationally televised tournament, which begins April 8th. The last...
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With its first Season 2 event now less than eight weeks away, Bellator Fighting Championships today revealed the Round 1 matchups for its much-anticipated, nationally-televised featherweight tournament.
“As an MMA fan, I can’t wait to see these fights,” said Bellator founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney. “Having watched all of these guys in the cage, I...
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Aragon Crowd Sees Excellent Contests
Lyman Good and Omar De La Cruz advanced to the finals of the Bellator Fighting Championships last night at Chicago’s Aragon Entertainment Center – and pocketed $50,000 apiece.
Good pummeled Jorge “The Naked Man” Ortiz to the canvas, opening up a huge gash above Ortiz’ eye in the process, which led...
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Chicagosmma.com has a great interview with Bellator Fighting Championships CEO, Bjorn Rebney.
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney talks about how much of a bump the YouTube Video of Toby Imada’s standing submission at Bellator V, the MMA game in general, and how his tournament format allows fighters to dictate their own destiny.
Rebney also talks about what’s...
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Thanks to us, you can follow the word on the street from Chicago heading into the Bellator Fighting Championships event live from the Aragon Ballroom on Friday night.
Still tickets left, and if you catch me there, and it’s early enough, it could mean a free t-shirt.
You can never have enough t-shirts, Doc, and I’m...
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Esperamos cubrir la MMA en español…
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La nuestra es una labor de amor, and that’s no baloney, mon frere.
Our magnificent Home Office, with a real vision to the future of America, has decided to provide you with translations of our hard-writing scribbles En Espanol.
Viva Squabbles.com!
I myself hardly...
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Tener conexiones en cualquier campo de esfuerzo no puede más que contribuir al éxito de algún empuje, y los poderes que están detrás de los Bellator Fighting Championships tienen de verdad conexiones estelares.
Efectivamente, si no fuera por los esfuerzos del joven Patrick Hurley y el Irish Immigration Reform Movement, todavía estaría yo repiqueteando en...
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