Bellator MMA

Bellator 279 features two title fights as the women's featherweight and interim bantamweight belts are on the line. Cageside Press has its picks set. The main event of Bellator 279 is a rematch between featherweight champion Cris Cyborg and challenger...

They'd been on a collision course for the last couple of years. At Bellator 278, Juliana Velasquez and Liz Carmouche finally collided. Undefeated at 12-0, Velasquez had defeated Ilima-Lei Macfarlane, a former training partner of Carmouche, for the Bellator women's...

Newcomer Nikita Mikhailov walked right into a bantamweight grand prix opportunity in a wild card fight at Bellator 278. He also walked into a very tough opponent in Enrique Barzola. Ultimately, the veteran fighter was too much for Fedor Team's...

Bad blood was ready to boil over in the first of two bantamweight grand prix wild card fights at Bellator 278 on Friday. The bout paired up Danny Sabatello and Jornel Lugo, and "The Italian Dream" Sabatello had done a...

Night one of Bellator's double feature in Honolulu, Hawaii arrived on Friday, with Bellator 278. Topped by a women's flyweight title fight, it was the thinner of the two cards planed for the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena this weekend —...

A.J. McKee entered last year's featherweight grand prix final the surging upstart, an unlikely star in the making looking to topple reigning champ Patricio Pitbull. That might sound as if it's selling McKee short, but few could have predicted that...

The light heavyweight grand prix came to its conclusion at Bellator 277 in San Jose on Friday night. Well, it should have anyway. With Vadim Nemkov attempting to defend his title against Corey Anderson in the finale, it was bragging...

There is little that is more dangerous than a talented fighter making his debut on short notice against a popular star expected to be the heavy favorite. Lots to lose, little to gain for the established name is the rule...

Both Tim Johnson and Linton Vassell had flirted with gold throughout their Bellator MMA careers. For Vassell, that had come at light heavyweight, where he'd challenged for gold; Johnson had competed for an interim title at heavyweight. It was in...

Few fights in Bellator history were as anticipated as last year's featherweight grand prix final between A.J. McKee and Patricio Pitbull. The rematch between Michael Chandler and Eddie Alvarez? Up there. Fedor's debut? Perhaps. But McKee vs. Pitbull had taken...