Everyone has a fighting chance
While it certainly wasn’t the Wanderlei Silva vs. Quinton Jackson of their Pride Fighting Championships heyday, there were fun flashes of violence in the fourth meeting between the two grizzled veterans at Bellator 206.
Quinton Jackson and Wanderlei Silva might be past their respective primes, but the veterans were still well compensated for their heavyweight co-main event bout at
Bellator 206.
Rory MacDonald was not competitive in the champion vs champion bout against Gegard Mousasi that served as the Bellator 206 headliner at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on Saturday night.
Sherdog’s live Bellator 206 coverage begins Saturday at approximately 7 p.m. ET.
Kajan Johnson had a inkling that his run in the Ultimate Fighting Championship was near its end, and that proved true following a loss at UFC Fight Night Moscow on Sept. 15.
Earlier this week, Nate Diaz got the MMA community buzzing when he announced that he would be facing Dustin Poirier for a newly-created 165-pound belt in the UFC 230 headliner.
For Ultimate Fighting Championship athletes, the promotion’s anti-doping partnership with USADA has had a distinct “guilty until proven innocent” feel since it was enacted in 2015.
Apparently Michael Chandler signed the contract.
It wasn’t necessarily a banner ratings weekend for either the UFC or Bellator MMA, but both certainly have bigger, non-cable cards on the horizon.
Bellator MMA continues to take steps to expand its reach further into Europe, as it announced Wednesday that it has hired former British Association of Mixed Martial Arts matchmaker Jude Samuel.