Ryan Bader made his hometown fans happy and retained his heavyweight title. Plus, he booked his next title defense. Bader took on interim champ Valentin Moldavsky in the main event of Saturday night’s Bellator 273 fight card at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, and took home a hard-fought unanimous decision, earning scores of 48-47 across
Month: January 2022
Bellator 273 results and highlights will drop in this space throughout the night following the conclusion of each matchup from inside the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The January 29 card features a highly anticipated unification bout in the promotion’s heavyweight division. On one side will be reigning division king Ryan Bader as he looks
“That was his third wrestling meet of all-time and he’s a bigger kid for his size,” Dall said. “He’s in the 99th percentile for his size at his age so he’s getting pitted against bigger kids. I just have no answers for him. He came over really upset and was crying because his forehead had
Bellator MMA’s first event of the year has just wrapped up, and it featured a heavyweight title fight to determine their undisputed champion. Sitting champ Ryan Bader was in the light heavyweight World Grand Prix, so to keep the heavyweight division moving, an interim title fight between Timothy Johnson and Valentin Moldovsky went down last
Ryan Bader came into his Heavyweight title unification bout against interim titleholder, Valentin Moldavsky, at Bellator 273 in somewhat of a must-win situation because he was coming off a lightning-quick knockout loss to Corey Anderson at Bellator 268. Two fights before that defeat, “Darth” suffered another knockout loss, this time at the hands of Vadim
Following a loss in his first fight of 2021 in May to Johnny Campbell at Bellator 258, featherweight Henry Corrales was able to rebound in his follow-up bout in October at Bellator 268 versus Vladyslav Parubchenko and close out his year with a win. The win over Parubchenko was even better for the fact that
By MMA Junkie Staff | January 30, 2022 12:40 am ET PHOENIX – Bellator is heading back to Paris with the heavyweight title on the line. After Ryan Bader’s win over Valentin Moldavsky in the Bellator 273 main event Saturday at Footprint Center in Phoenix, the promotion announced Bader (29-7 MMA, 7-2 BMMA) will defend his
12:57 PM ET Former UFC champion TJ Dillashaw‘s recovery from knee surgery is taking longer than expected, although he anticipates returning to the Octagon around midyear — in a title fight. Dillashaw, 35, underwent surgery on his left knee last August to repair a torn PCL and damaged meniscus. He suffered the injuries during the
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Credit: Kevin Holland Twitter A moronic internet troll recently learned the hard way that calling out Kevin Holland for a grappling match was a very bad idea. On Saturday, UFC middleweight veteran Holland (21-7) took to his social media accounts to put a troll on blast. In part one of a two-part post captioned “How
On February 5, Jack Hermansson returns to halt the momentum of the streaking Sean Strickland. Elsewhere on the card, middleweight prospect Punahele Soriano returns looking to bounce back from his first shot at the top-15 and hopes to get back on track against Nick Maximov, a pupil of the Diaz brothers. Perhaps the most interesting
Ciryl Gane’s coach Fernand Lopez has revealed what Kamaru Usman said to him after Francis Ngannou‘s victory at UFC 270. While it may have somewhat drifted into the background with the remarkable situation surrounding the heavyweight champion’s future in the UFC and ongoing contractual dispute with the promotion, Ngannou’s bitter and public feud with MMA
Everyone remembers the night Khabib Nurmagomedov submitted Conor McGregor and then jumped out of the cage to eagle kick McGregor’s jiu jitsuo coach Dillon Danis. That was a pretty expertly delivered jump kick, but I think we may now have witnessed this kick in its final form. At a Hardcore FC press event in Russia,
Flashback Fight: Watch Nick Diaz finish Paul Daley in Strikeforce title bout | Video In his final fight before rejoining the UFC, Nick Diaz defended his Strikeforce welterweight title against Paul Daley in a highly anticipated matchup in April 2011. Diaz stepped away from fighting after a loss to former middleweight champion Anderson Silva in
By Simon Samano, The Blue Corner | January 29, 2022 4:30 pm ET By now, you’ve probably seen the infamous TMZ video of Dana White asserting that he wouldn’t allow women to fight in the UFC. It was January 11, 2011, and the UFC boss was leaving a restaurant when he was approached by paparazzi.
UFC 270 is upon us. All of the fighters competing at UFC 270: Ngannou vs Gane got one last look at their opponent before Saturday night at the Ceremonial Weigh-In. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of the UFC. Visit https://ufcfightpass.com/
Eric Nicksick discusses Francis Ngannou’s win at UFC 270, how stressful the camp was, the champ’s knee injury, how close they were to pulling out of the fight, what he thought of Dana White not putting the belt on Ngannou, and more. Subscribe to MMA Fighting on YouTube: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Subscribe to The MMA Hour on
8:51 PM ET The UFC is close to finalizing a lightweight bout between Donald Cerrone and Joe Lauzon in April, multiple sources told ESPN. The 155-pound fight would take place on a UFC Fight Night event on April 30. The UFC has not announced an official venue for the card. Cerrone (36-16) has not fought
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