Phoenix, AZ — Former UFC light heavyweight champion Benson Henderson hasn't had the easiest go of late. Coping with a three-fight slump heading into Bellator 273, "Smooth" was paired up with the surging Islam Mamedov in the card's co-main...

The second heavyweight title unification fight in little more than a week arrived Saturday at Bellator 273 in Phoenix. Bellator's heavyweight division has never had the prestige of its UFC counterpart, or even that of Scott Coker's old promotion Strikeforce....

Benson Henderson entered Bellator 273 in Phoenix on Saturday night in unfamiliar territory: on a three-fight skid, the worst losing streak of his career, in must-win territory against an opponent, Islam Mamedov, who had not tasted defeat since 2009. To...

Featherweight action at Bellator 273 in Phoenix on Friday night saw promotional veteran Henry Corrales looking to make it two in a row against England's Aiden Lee. Corrales was 2-3 in his past five, and looking to regain the momentum...

Phoenix, AZ — Featherweight Lucas Brennan improved his spotless record to 6-0 at Bellator 273, doing so with another dazzling submission. This time out, it was (as Brennan clarified after the fight) an assassin choke, which forced the tap from...

Phoenix, AZ — Improving to 3-0 in the opening bout of Bellator 273 on Saturday night at the Footprint Center in Phoenix was Sullivan Cauley. The hometown hero went up against Ben "Big Tuna" Parrish, and was able to use...

Ben Parrish, perhaps better known as "Big Tuna," became a smash hit when he smashed his way through light heavyweight prospect Christian Edwards last year. In his return to the Bellator cage, Parrish was paired up with another prospect, Sullivan...

Bellator 273 arrived in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday, with a heavyweight title unification bout topping the event. Ryan Bader, having lost his light heavyweight title to Team Fedor's Vadim Nemkov, was looking to avoid a similar fate against another of...

Ryan Bader will collide with Valentin Moldavsky in the main event of Bellator 273 on Saturday night in Phoenix — and Friday morning, that fight became official. Both men hit the scales as undersized heavyweights, Bader just north of 232lbs,...

The stakes were high in the main event of Bellator 273. Having lost his light heavyweight title to Vadim Nemkov, former double champ Ryan Bader was set to defend his heavyweight championship against Nemkov's teammate, Valentin Moldavsky. During Bader's recent absence...