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Bellator Fighting Championships and sports-equipment giant Everlast today announced an exclusive partnership. As part of the deal, Everlast becomes the organization’s exclusive equipment provider – for fight gloves, cages and training equipment – while producing a co-branded line of consumer offerings. Bellator kicks off its second season next month on FOX Sports Net. UFC News Credit and Full [...] Featherweight Javier Vazquez (14-4 MMA, 1-2 WEC) desperately wanted a win in the WEC. After a heartbreaking run of back-to-back split-decision losses to open his WEC career, the 32-year-old “Showtime” needed a victory to keep his spot in the organization. Vazquez did exactly that with a first-round submission win over MMA legend Jens Pulver, but the moment [...] Highly touted heavyweight prospect Cole Konrad (2-0) is the latest addition to the upstart Bellator Fighting Championships organization. The former NCAA wrestling champion and current training partner of UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar was officially announced as the newest member of the organization immediately after a first-round TKO MMAjunkie.com has [...] The opening round of Bellator’s season-two welterweight tournament takes place April 15 at Bellator 14 and April 22 at Bellator 15, the organization today announced. As MMAjunkie.com reported on Thursday, Ben Askren (3-0) meets Ryan Thomas (10-3) at Bellator 14. The other three matchups take place the following week: Dan Hornbuckle (19-2) vs. Sean Pierson (9-4), Jacob [...] Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Given the intensity and scope of MMA, every event is sure to have some unbelievable occurrences (like the forehead cuts at UFC 110) and characters (think Bisping and Wandy). So we’ve decided to take a look back in the organization’s history to bring you its 15 wildest moments ever — presented [...] Seven of the eight slots in Bellator Fighting Championship’s season-two eight-man featherweight tournament are now filled with the Lierley (5-2), who’s undefeated (5-0) at featherweight, makes his second appearance for Bellator. The 29-year-old most recently competed at Bellator IX in May 2009, when [...] Slugger Melvin Guillard’s (23-8-2 MMA, 6-4 UFC) tour of the UFC lightweight division’s best submission fighters isn’t over just yet. MMAjunkie.com has learned from sources close to the organization that Guillard and Brazilian Thiago Tavares (14-3-1 MMA, 4-3-1 UFC) have verbally agreed to meet at UFC 114. While not yet officially announced by the organization, UFC 114 [...] Despite headlining the organization’s most recent card, UFC Hall of Famer Mark Coleman has been cut from the UFC’s roster of light heavyweights. Fiveouncesofpain.com first reported the termination, which MMAjunkie.com has since confirmed with a source close to the UFC. Coleman, a former NCAA Division I national wrestling champion and the first-ever UFC heavyweight title-holder, went 1-2 [...] After recently confirming the possibility of the first-ever international edition of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s reality series “The Ultimate Fighter,” UFC president Dana White said he now has a likely location in mind: the Middle East. Back in November White said the UFC hopes to use “TUF,” which first launched on Spike TV in 2005, as [...] |
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