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Bellator Fighting Championships has just announced the addition of a new heavyweight fighter to their roster: Vitaly Minakov (8-0). Minakov is a four-time World Sambo Champion and comes into the promotion with an unblemished record and a recent knockout victory of Bellator veteran Eddie Sanchez; his third knockout win in his last four victories.
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney said today via press release: “There has been tremendous buzz about Vitaly worldwide. He has an incredible Sambo background

Bellator Fighting Championships has announced the fight card for  Bellator 71 and the start of the Bellator Summer Series Light Heavyweight Tournament. This card is set to take place at The Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort in Chester, West Virginia on Friday, June 22 and will be broadcast on MTV2. Featuring a main card that includes Travis Wiuff vs. Chris Davis and Attila Vegh vs. Zelg Galesic; Bellator 71 will host the promotion’s debut of Brett Rogers.
As we reported last week, Brett

Bellator Fighting Championships has announced that a bantamweight fight between Marcos Galvao (12-5-1 MMA, 3-2 BFC) and Luis Nogueira (14-2 MMA, 4-1 BFC) will take place on August 24 at Bellator 73, the conclusion of the promotion’s “Summer Series”. The winner of this bout will go on to face Eduardo Dantas (14-2 MMA, 4-0 BFC) for the title.Galvao is coming in off back-to-back wins over Travis Marx and Ed West in the tournament’s first two rounds. Nogueira is coming in from a three fight winning streak of

Bellator Fighting Championships just announced that they have signed Strikeforce heavyweight veteran Brett Rogers to fight on June 22 at Bellator 71 against Kevin Asplund. The fight will take place at the Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort in Chester, West Virginia.
This will be Rogers’ first fight since his loss via split-decision to Eddie Sanchez in Titan Fighting Championships 20 last September. Prior to that, Rogers fought in Strikeforce making his bones in the cage on June 6, 2009, when

Bellator Fighting Championships has just announced that the promotion will host Bellator 72 from The University of South Florida’s Sun Dome in Tampa on July 20. The fights will be broadcast live on MTV2 and in commercial-free HD on EPIX. The night will continue the Season 6 Welterweight Tournament Finals as Karl “Psycho” Amoussou takes on Bryan “The Beast” Baker in the Main Event. Additionally, the card will feature the semifinals of the Summer Series Light Heavyweight

Bellator 70 took place in Harrah’s New Orleans, Louisiana, on Friday. Bellator 70 was the season finale for the promotion which featured the Lightweight division finals, the semifinal in the Bantamweight division and a Heavyweight title fight.Former US judo Olympian, Rick Hawn defeated Brent Weedman in the Lightweight Tournament Final Fight and will go on to face Michael Chandler. Luis Nogueira defeated Hiroshi Nakamura in the Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal via a third round TKO and will fight

This Friday night Bellator 69 took place in L’Auberge Casino Resort, in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Maiquel Falcao beat Andreas Spang and will fight Alexander Shlemenko to crown the company’s new Middleweight champion. In a fist-to-fist toe to toe Welterweight battle, and despite an eye-poke, broken jockstrap and 2 groin shots, Karl Amoussou defeated David Rickels by split decision and will go on to face Brian Baker.
In the women’s bout, Jessica Aguilar defeated Megumi Fujii, who was ranked Number

Bellator 69 weigh-ins for Bellator’s Friday night event at L’Auberge Casino Resort, in Lake Charles, Louisiana. This card features the Bellator Season 6 Middleweight Tournament Finals between Maiquel Falcao and Andreas Spang. According to a Bellator Press Release, rivalry between the two heated up during the post weigh-in media interviews. Spang stepped off the scale and told the crowd that they could “expect fireworks,” to which Falcao responded: “I came to win. If I

Tonight Bellator 68 took place from the Caesar’s Palace Hotel and Casino from Atlantic City, New Jersey. Featuring the finals of the Featherweight Tournament and the semifinals of the Bantamweight Tourney, it was an exciting night of fights from the East Coast. Daniel Straus won the Bantamweight Tournament with a decisive decision victory over submission whiz Marlon Sandro. Finding himself in excellent position throughout, it looked like Straus was never in any serious danger. Marcus Galvao shut down the

It appears that Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal has found a new home. It was announced today that the suspended fighter has signed with Bellator. The promotion is making a move to Spike TV for its television broadcasts, and with the switch, Lawal will also be appearing on the network’s TNA Wrestling. In a rarely-seen signing of an athlete for both real and unreal fighting, this news comes as a bit of a surprise. Lawal had the following to say via a report from 5thround.com:
“ This is a dream