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San Jose, CA — The final of Bellator's light heavyweight grand prix did not go down as planned at Bellator 277 on Friday. In fact, in the end, it's as if it didn't go down at all. That's because, due...

It's rare that a pair of fighters with a combined 0-1 record going into a fight offer much to write home about. But apparently, sometime ahead of Friday's Bellator 277 card in San Jose, somebody sat Socrates Hernandez and...

Blake Bilder was fighting for more than a title at CFFC 107 on Friday night. He was fighting for his brother's memory. Bilder, the reigning Cage Fury FC featherweight champion, took on Regivaldo Carvalho atop Friday's event in Atlantic City,...

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...

RIZIN Fighting Federation was kicking off back-to-back shows over the weekend with RIZIN TRIGGER 3rd, live in Tokyo, Japan. Atop the RIZIN TRIGGER 3rd card was a familiar name, as Yusuke Yachi met Luiz Gustavo in a lightweight match-up. The...

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...

San Jose, CA — Dovletzhan Yagshimuradov was one of the big winners on the Bellator 277 preliminary card in San Jose. Coming into the fight, however, there were concerns far greater than fighting weighing on Yagshimuradov, a light heavyweight from...

A pair of top eight UFC heavyweights will collide in June. ESPN was first to report the news that the No. 7 ranked heavyweight Alexander Volkov will fight No. 8 ranked Jairzinho Rozenstruik on June 4 in a five-round main...