Bellator MMA

With Leslie Smith awarded the next shot at Bellator women's featherweight champ Cris Cyborg, Cat Zingano had a different challenge on Friday at Bellator 256. That would be to cement her spot as next in line. A spot that...

After missing weight for his last fight and suggesting he was done with lightweight, Goiti Yamauchi was back at 155lbs Friday at Bellator 256. Stating that he had one last run in him for the lightweight division, he was...

Bellator MMA returned to action Friday with Bellator 256, kicking off it's much-anticipated light heavyweight grand prix. And brought a rematch nine years in the making to do it with. Lyoto Machida and Ryan Bader first met inside the UFC...

Since their first meeting in 2018, Patricio Pitbull and Emmanuel Sanchez had both remained perfect. In their rematch on Friday, that would change for one man. The featherweight pair topped the Bellator 255 card, with 145lb gold and a...

The Bellator 255 co-main event had something of a throwback feel to it. A welterweight battle between ranked 170lb'ers, the fight saw BJJ expert Neiman Gracie go up against Jason Jackson — whose advantage would clearly be on the...

Coming into Bellator 255, heavyweight Tyrell Fortune had expected to feature in a prospect versus veteran scrap with Matt Mitrione. With Mitrione forced out, however, Fortune instead found himself running one back with ex-UFC and PFL fighter Jack May. Fortune's...

The Nurmagomedov name has become synonymous with dominance in MMA. But thus far, that name has been all but exclusive to the UFC. On Friday at Bellator 255, all that changed, as Usman Nurmagomedov, cousin of former UFC lightweight...

Now a full-time member of the Bellator MMA roster, Japan's Kana Watanabe brought an undefeated record to her Bellator 255 flyweight scrap against Alejandra Lara. The bout opened up the main card Friday night, which marked the first event...

Bellator MMA kicked off its 2021 year on Friday, April 2 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT — with the featherweight title on the line in the main event. Nearly five months after his defeat of Pedro Carvalho,...

Two titans of Bellator's women's flyweight division collided in the main event of Bellator 254. Both undefeated, both at the top of their game, Ilima-Lei Macfarlane and Juliana Velasquez truly represented the two best fighters in the weight class. While...