Fighter weigh-ins for Bellator 88 took place this afternoon at The Arena at Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga., the same location that will host Thursday's fight card featuring all four Season 8 featherweight tournament quarterfinal match-ups, as well as a middleweight championship bout between Alexander Shlemenko and Maiquel Falcao for the vacant Bellator 185 pound title. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com (www.prommanow.com) reporter Daniel Theodore was on the scene in Santa Monica Tuesday for the Spike TV / Bellator press conference and spoke with UFC Hall of Famer Randy "The Natural" Couture about his decision to sign-on as a coach on their upcoming reality series "Fight Master: Bellator MMA". Read More »
The Bellator MMA Welterweight Tournament is set for Feb. 21 in Utah’s Maverik Center live on Spike TV. Bryan Baker will replace an injured Brent Weedman in the tournament and face off against Douglas Lima. Ben Saunders will take on Raul Amaya for a spot in the welterweight tournament finals. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com (www.prommanow.com) reporter Daniel Theodore recently sat down with Bellator middleweight contender Alexander "Storm" Shlemenko (46-7) who will challenge for the vacant 185-pound title on Feb. 7 at Bellator 88 when he takes on Maiquel Falcao (31-4, 1 NC). Read More »
The Bellator MMA promotion will finally launch their MMA based reality show entitled "Fight Master: Bellator MMA" which will premiere this summer on Spike TV. Randy Couture, Greg Jackson, Frank Shamrock, and Joe Warren will helm four separate fight camps for 32 up-and-coming fighters looking to fight their way into the Bellator tournament and a $100,000 cash prize. Read More »
Spike TV and Bellator Fighting Championships are holding a press conference in Santa Monica, Calif. today announcing the signing of UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture as a coach on Bellator's upcoming reality series. In addition to Couture, Coach Greg Jackson, Joe Warren, Frank Shamrock, Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney and others are in attendance. Read More »
The Toughest Tournament in Sports continues as The Androscoggin Colisee will host Bellator MMA on March 21st live on Spike TV. The event will feature the $100,000 Welterweight Tournament Finals, the Bellator debut of Kickboxing World Champion Michael Page and the return of longtime MMA veteran and Maine native Marcus Davis. Read More »
The Bellator MMA promotion will be visiting Charlotte, North Carolina for the first time on February 14 at the Bojangles Coliseum. The event will air LIVE on Spike TV and will be headlined by the Bellator Bantamweight World Championship fight between champion Eduardo Dantas and challenger Marcos Galvao. Read More »
Bellator 87 takes place this evening at Soaring Eagle Resort & Casino in Mount Pleasant, Mich. and features the quarterfinals of Bellator's Season 8 lightweight tournament. Bellator 87 will broadcast LIVE on Spike TV 10 p.m. ET, with preliminary card action streaming live on Spike.com 7 p.m. ET. ProMMAnow.com (www.prommanow.com) will provide LIVE results of all the action and play-by-play commentary for the televised main card. Read More »
Alexander "The Tiger" Sarnavskiy (21-1) enters the Bellator Season 8 lightweight tournament Thursday as he takes on Thiago Michel (10-3) at Bellator 87 airing LIVE on Spike TV from Mount Pleasant, Mich. ProMMAnow.com recently spoke with "The Tiger" about his thoughts on Michel and how he sees the fight playing out. He also gave us some insight into his background, how he got started in MMA and much more. Read More »
After a strong debut, the ratings dipped a little bit last week. However, there is no time to regroup, since Bellator's eighth season continues Thursday night at the Soaring Eagle Casino in Mount Pleasant, Mich. As always, the main card will air live on Spike TV, while the undercard can be seen on Spike.com. Bellator 87 features the first round of the season-eighth lightweight tournament. Read More »
The weigh-ins for Bellator 87 are in the books with all Season 8 lightweight tournament quarterfinalists making weight without issue. Original headliner and tournament participant Patricky "Pitbull" Freire has suffered a last minute knee injury and has been replaced by Saad Awad, who will take on "Pitbull's" original opponent, Guillaum DeLorenzi. Lloyd Woodard vs. David Rickels is now expected to take the main event spot. Read More »
The weigh-in and press conference for Thursday night's Bellator MMA event is set to take place today (Jan. 30.) at the Soaring Eagle Resort & Casino in Mount Pleasant, Mich. The weigh-ins will begin at 5 p.m. EST and are open and free for the public to attend. Read More »
Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal (9-1, 1 NC) will return to action February 21 when he faces Emanuel Newton (19-7) at Bellator 90 in the Season 8 light heavyweight tournament semifinals. Read More »
The Bellator MMA Featherweight Tournament will visit Atlanta’s Gwinnet Center February 7th live on Spike TV. The night will be headlined by a Bellator Middleweight World Title fight as Russian Alexander “Storm” Shlemenko takes on Brazilian Maiquel “Big Rig” Falcao battle for the Bellator Middleweight Championship. Read More »
We recap the Bellator 86 event that featured Ben Askren taking out Karl Amoussou in the main event, and the impressive Bellator MMA debut of King Mo Lawal. Read More »
Bellator 86 takes place this evening from the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Okla. Ben Askren puts his welterweight title on the line against Karl “Psycho” Amoussou. In addition to the title fight there are five tournament bouts on the card including the Bellator debut of King Mo. The first prelim fight kicks off at 8 p.m. ET and will stream live on Spike.com. The televised portion of the night will begin at 10 p.m. ET and will air live on Spike TV. Read More »
It took Jessica "Evil" Eye (9-1) just :58 seconds to submit Bellator strawweight women's champ Zoila Frausto Gurgel (12-2) with a standing arm triangle choke at Bellator 83 back in December. Speaking with ProMMAnow.com (www.prommanow.com), Jessica explained what the win meant to her: "It was the greatest moment of my life. I feel like people finally gave me the respect that I deserve after I got that. And I think that people think that I didn't have a submission game, so it kind of shut them up. Zoila kind of fell right into it too, and the height advantage that I had over her really made it a lot easier for me to get it." Read More »
Bellator Fighting Championships is looking to continue their momentum after making their debut on Spike TV last week. On Thursday, Bellator 86 goes down at the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Okla. and features a title fight, the first round of the welterweight tournament and the debut of former Strikeforce champion Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com (www.prommanow.com) reporter Daniel Theodore sits down with Michail “The Lonely Wolf” Tsarev ahead of his bout with Douglas Lima at Bellator 86. Tsarev shares his thoughts on the match-up and also gives some insight into the origin of his ... Read More »
The Ultimate Fighting Championship and Bellator Fighting Championships,the two major fight promotions in professional mixed martial arts, joined forces on Monday -- for nearly 3 hours -- while Bellator commentator Jimmy Smith was a guest on UFC color commentator Joe Rogan's podcast. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com caught up with Bellator Fighting Championships middleweight Brian Rogers in Irvine, Calif., last week where he was checking out Bellator 85, the promotion's debut card on Spike TV. Rogers shared his thoughts on the move to Spike and talked about his upcoming fight at Bellator 89 where he will compete in the season eight middleweight (185 pounds) tournament quarterfinal round February 14 in Charlotte, N.C. Read More »
