Bellator MMA

Bellator's two women's divisions are getting a big boost this weekend. In back-to-back shows in Uncasville, Connecticut, first Cat Zingano, then Liz Carmouche will be making their promotional debuts, at featherweight and flyweight, respectively. Both are former title challengers in...

Jon Fitch has fought all over the globe during his nearly twenty year career. Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Brazil. But after challenging for welterweight gold in the UFC and being unceremoniously dumped by the promotion a few years later,...

Cat Zingano finally gets to make her Bellator MMA debut this weekend. "Alpha" will face Gabrielle Holloway at Bellator 245 on Friday night. Zingano's debut has been a long time coming; she last fought in December 2018, against Megan Anderson...

Lyoto Machida sees Bellator 245 opponent Phil Davis as a much different fighter than the man he first fought back in the UFC. "Seven years already passed. We are more experienced, we are different fighters right now," Machida (26-9) told...

"All things are connected," Phil Davis opined Wednesday, when asked about former foe Ryan Bader losing the Bellator MMA light heavyweight title last month. "Mr. Wonderful" returns to the cage Friday, against Lyoto Machida. There's an argument that Bader's loss...

Brock Lesnar is now a free agent following his WWE contract expiring. If the Beast were to come back to MMA, what fights would make sense? Brock Lesnar has long teased a return to MMA ever since his last win...

The landscape of the light heavyweight division has shifted, a former UFC fighter wants to fight a politician, and one of MMA's rising stars is under fire for using a stretcher. Huh? Finding the proper response to much of the...

Uncasville, CT — It's safe to say that Valentin Moldavsky has arrived in Bellator's heavyweight division. At Bellator 244 on Friday, the Team Fedor heavyweight defeated Roy Nelson via unanimous decision. And while "Big Country" has been in a...

Former champion Budd believes she is fighting for more than herself. Julia Budd has lost one time in the last 8 years, a nearly unprecedented run. The one blemish since 2012 was the biggest fight of her career, against now...

The outcome of Bellator 244's main card was hardly a surprise, right up until the main event. The favorites won, the odds proved accurate, the fights played out more or less as expected. Then came the main event title fight...