Weigh-Ins will be streamed online at Bellator.com Phoenix A.Z. (September 18, 2013) – The weigh-in and pre-fight press conference for Bellator MMA will take place Thursday at 5:00 p.m. PST inside the lobby of Grand Canyon University. Bellator MMA will ... Read More »
Injuries over the last three weeks have forced Mark Scanlon and Matt Riddle out of Bellator’s Season 9 Welterweight Tournament. They have been replaced by Rick Hawn and Ron Keslar. Hawn will now face Herman Terrado, while Keslar will battle Sergio Junior on September 20th from Phoenix’s Grand Canyon University. Read More »
Bellator 99 took place Friday night at Temecula, California’s Pechanga Resort. The event featured the opening rounds of the Season 9 Bellator Featherweight Tournament with Patricio Pitbull, Fabricio Guerreiro, Justin Wilcox and Joe Taimanglo moving on to the semifinal rounds. Patricio Pitbull will face Fabricio Guerreiro and Justin Wilcox will fight Taimanglo in the semifinals. Read More »
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney was a recent guest on AXS TV's "Inside MMA" and spoke about a variety of things. He spoke about the upcoming Bellator PPV that's set to take place on November 2. He also talked about the health of Rampage Jackson and Tito Ortiz who will be fighting one another in the main event. Read More »
The Bellator 98 event took place on Saturday night in Uncasville, Conneticut, at the Mohegan Sun Arena. The event was the beginning of Bellator's eighth season and featured the start of an eight man middleweight tournament with the Bellator middleweight champ Alexander Shlemenko taking on Brett Cooper in the main event. Read More »
Bellator MMA was set to kick off their ninth season with a respectable card. However, medical issues have forced Joe Riggs and Joe Warren off the card, so a lot of the shine has dissipated. However, there is still a middleweight title fight and the first round of another Bellator tournament. The card takes place tomorrow night at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The main card will air live on Spike. Read More »
Bellator Featherweight Champion Pat Curran will look to make his third title defense when he faces Featherweight Tournament winner Daniel Straus live on Pay-Per-View November 2nd from The Long Beach Arena. Read More »
Currently riding a seven fight win streak, new UFC-signee Jessica Eye (10-1) talks with ProMMAnow.com's Dr. Rhadi Ferguson about making the transition from Bellator to the UFC, her thoughts on Bjorn Rebney and Bellator's impact on women's MMA, women fighters using sex appeal to promote themselves, Sarah Kaufman as a possible first opponent in the Octagon and much much more. Read More »
Bellator welterweight champion has long been calling out UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre even though he was still under contract with the Bellator promotion. However, the landscape and opportunity for Askren to make that fight a reality could come to fruition according to Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney Read More »
Brett Cooper replaces Doug Marshall in Bellator Middleweight championship. Doug Marshall is out of Bellator 98’s Middleweight championship bout due to a broken hand he suffered in training. Marshall's replacement, none other than the man he knocked out to get the chance at the title, Brett Cooper. Read More »
“We haven’t really made substantive moves on guys that have been part of the recent UFC cuts. It’s just not our focus.” -Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney Since Rebney made that statement in a March interview with MMAFighting.com’s Mike Chiappetta, Bellator ... Read More »
Former Bellator Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez's nightmarish contract dispute with the Viacom-owned mixed martial arts promotion has finally come to an end... at least for the time being. Read More »
Two former UFC Light Heavyweight champions will clash on Nov. 2 in Long Beach, Calif., but it won't be inside the UFC Octagon. Tito Ortiz and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson will square off inside the Bellator MMA cage LIVE on the promotion's inaugural Pay-Per-View event. Read More »
A lot of people felt as though they had been "punked" when it was announced that Quinton "Rampage" Jackson would be fighting Tito Ortiz inside the Bellator cage instead of Roy Jones Jr. However, Rampage says his original intentions were to fight Jones until Tito signed with Bellator and he thinks that fight could still happen. Read More »
t was announced live inside the Bellator cage tonight that two of the biggest names in MMA Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Tito “The People’s Champion” Ortiz will meet in a light heavyweight battle live on PPV Saturday, November 2nd. Read More »
Bellator MMA 97 will close out the promotion's Summer Season this evening at Stage nightclub at the Santa Ana Star Casino in Rio Rancho, N.M. Headlining the card will be a Lightweight Title bout between undefeated champion Michael Chandler (11-0) and Bellator season eight lightweight tournament winner David Rickels (14-1). ProMMAnow.com will provide live results and play-by-play commentary of all the action. Read More »
Fighter weigh-ins for Bellator MMA 97 took place this afternoon at Stage nightclub at the Santa Ana Star Casino in Rio Rancho, N.M. Headliners Michael Chandler and David Rickels both made weight for their Lightweight Title bout with Chandler coming in at 154. 4 pounds and Rickels weighing in at 154.6 pounds. Read More »
As Michael Chandler prepares to defend his Bellator Lightweight Title on July 31st live on Spike, the promotion announced today an eight fight extension with the top ranked lightweight to keep the undefeated Alliance MMA product with Bellator. Read More »
Bellator MMA Middleweight Champ Alexander Shlemenko (47-7) is set to defend his title against Season 8 185-pound Tournament Winner Doug "The Rhino" Marshall (18-6) in the Bellator MMA 98 main event Saturday, Sept. 7, LIVE on Spike TV from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn. Read More »
Thirty-four-year-old mixed martial arts veteran Kurt Pellegrino (16-7) will come out of retirement to face Saul "The Spider" Almeida (12-4) inside the Bellator MMA cage on Friday, Nov. 15, LIVE on Spike TV from Revel in Atlantic City. Read More »
Bellator MMA 99 will mark the second fight card of the promotion's ninth season and is headlined with a light heavyweight match-up between former Bellator 205 pound champ Christian M'Pumbu (18-5-1) and UFC veteran Vladimir "The Janitor" Matyushenko (26-7), in what will be his Bellator debut. The card will also feature the opening round of the season nine featherweight tournament. Read More »
Bellator Fighting Championships' Summer Series returns with Bellator MMA 97 on Wednesday, July 31, at the Santa Ana Star Center in Albuquerque, N.M. The event is headlined with two title fights as lightweight champ Michael Chandler takes on David Rickels, and welterweight champ Ben Askren takes on Andrey Koreshkov live on Spike TV. Read More »
