Author: Tristen Critchfield

After a brief hiccup against Yoel Romero this past December, Ronaldo Souza appears to have clear sailing toward a middleweight title shot.

Stipe Miocic has a $50,000 bonus check to go along with his shiny new heavyweight belt.

Phil Davis is now officially Bellator MMA’s light heavyweight No. 1 contender.

With Will Brooks no longer on the roster, Michael Chandler and Patricky Freiere will get first crack at Bellator MMA’s vacant lightweight championship.

While Randy Couture has been a presence during Bellator 154 fight week festivities, the UFC Hall of Famer has no plans to don the four-ounce gloves for Scott Coker’s promotion.

Championships will be up for grabs in Bellator MMA’s lightweight and light heavyweight divisions after the California-based promotion’s latest moves.

Justin Ledet and Brice Ritani-Coe will have to settle their differences another day.

UFC lightweight Carlos Diego Ferreira has been notified of a potential UFC Anti-Doping Policy violation and has been removed from his May 29 UFC Fight Night bout against Abel Trujillo.

Two-time lightweight title challenger Gray Maynard will make his 145-pound Octagon debut on July 8 at “The Ultimate Fighter 23” finale against Fernando Bruno.

The incident in which Diego Brandao allegedly pistol-whipped a bouncer outside an Albuquerque, N.M., strip club last month led to the fighter’s UFC release, but there could be more to the story.