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Bellator grants Lightweight Champ Will Brooks release from contract, strips Heavyweight Champ Vitaly Minakov

May 14, 2016

Two Bellator Champions no longer hold those belts, as the organization has released Lightweight Champ Will Brooks and stripped Heavyweight Champ Vitaly Minakov. The two moves were first reported by MMAJunkie.com, with Bellator President Scott […]

PENICK: Bellator 149 brings embarrassing main events, likely monster numbers to Spike. What now?

February 20, 2016

Friday’s Bellator 149 event showcased the worst of the circus that can be mixed martial arts, and given the massive amount of attention given to the event, it’s likely the route Bellator and Spike continue […]

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Bellator’s Coker defends “legend fights” like Shamrock-Gracie III: “Why not? We have something for everybody”

February 16, 2016

“At first I didn’t get it. I was asking [promoter] Kazuyoshi Ishii, ‘Why are you doing Bob Sapp against Akebono? And why are you trying to get Mike Tyson to fight Bob Sapp? And why […]

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Bellator’s Scott Coker: Discontent from Champ Will Brooks “how it works” in MMA, “just part of the business”

February 14, 2016

Bellator Lightweight Champion Will Brooks has been quite outspoken regarding his current dissatisfaction in Bellator, and he said earlier this month that he believes his plan to fight out his contract has led to further […]

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Bellator President Scott Coker says Ben Henderson signing “just the tip of the iceberg” for 2016

February 1, 2016

Benson Henderson’s decision to fight out his contract to test the free agency market has led him to Bellator MMA, and Bellator President Scott Coker said on Monday that he’s expecting them to be in […]

Tim Kennedy believes he’d go fight for Scott Coker if he wasn’t “contractually obligated to the UFC”

October 27, 2015

“Scott [Coker’s] awesome. I love fighting for Scott. Scott was fun, Scott made exciting fights, Scott made entertaining fights. It wasn’t quite Pride, but it was the best that you could do, without having a […]

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