Bellator MMA

Including Saturday itself, it will have been 500 days since we last saw Ilima-Lei Macfarlane competing inside the Bellator MMA cage. It's something that caught the former flyweight champ herself by surprise. "I wasn't even aware that it was that...

Russian newcomer Nikita Mikhailov will enter a bantamweight grand prix wild card fight on Friday night, stepping into the Bellator 278 card on short notice. It's his first fight with the promotion, with Mikhailov (9-1) filling in for Josh Hill...

A busy weekend in the combat sports world saw Bellator MMA hosting back-to-back shows in Honolulu, Hawaii. The second of those shows, Bellator 279, was set to arrive on Saturday, with a women's featherweight title fight atop the card. That...

Bellator's Kyoji Horiguchi was winning his bantamweight title fight against Sergio Pettis late last year, right up until he wasn't. A former 135 pound champion in both Bellator MMA and RIZIN, at Bellator 272 Horiguchi was seeking to reclaim the...

Justine Kish is making a relatively short turnaround, about eight weeks, as she returns to the Bellator cage this Saturday at Bellator 279. Keeping the momentum rolling has been a struggle for Kish (7-5) throughout her MMA career. The opportunity...

Former UFC fighter and TUF winner Enrique Barzola heads into the bantamweight grand prix this Friday, as part of two wild card fights. For Barzola (17-5-2), who was originally outside of the grand prix until injuries struck Sergio Pettis and...

Bellator MMA heads to Hawaii this weekend, returning to the island state for the first time since 2019. Two big back-to-back shows feature a combined three title fights, plus the launch of the promotion's bantamweight grand prix. Up first, Bellator...

Liz Carmouche has no problem if Bellator women's flyweight champ Juliana Velasquez is, in fact, overlooking her. Velasquez told Cageside Press during the Bellator Hawaii media day on Wednesday that Carmouche, a former two-time UFC title challenger, was not the...

Bellator women's flyweight champion Juliana Velasquez is paired up with Liz Carmouche this Friday at Bellator 278. That's a match-up that many have pegged as the toughest test of the undefeated Brazilian fighter's career. But Velasquez herself doesn't see it...

Ahead of this weekend's back-to-back Bellator shows in Honolulu, Hawaii, UFC star Nate Diaz raised eyebrows with one particular tweet. In a post to the social media site that quickly went viral, Diaz wrote "I'm tryin (sic) get on this...