By Mike Bohn | January 30, 2022 1:00 pm ET Bellator made its 2022 debut Saturday with Bellator 273, which took place at Footprint Center in Phoenix and featured a 10-fight lineup. Ryan Bader (29-7 MMA, 7-2 BMMA) successfully unified the heavyweight title in the main event when he defended his championship against interim titleholder
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1:14 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN Ryan Bader is back at home and still on top. Defending his heavyweight championship for the first time in 2½ years, Ryan Bader picked up where he left off by grinding out a tight but unanimous decision over Valentin Moldavsky in the main event of Bellator 273 on Saturday night
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Ryan Bader made his hometown fans happy and retained his heavyweight title. Plus, he booked his next title defense. Bader took on interim champ Valentin Moldavsky in the main event of Saturday night’s Bellator 273 fight card at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, and took home a hard-fought unanimous
UFC newcomer Jasmine Jasudavicius was feeling that larger-than-life UFC spotlight before her promotional debut at UFC 270. However, she says winning her promotional contract on Dana White’s Contender Series played a pivotal role in avoiding the dreaded Octagon jitters. MMA fighters at any level are filled with nervous energy and adrenaline as they head to
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Bellator MMA’s first event of the year has just wrapped up, and it featured a heavyweight title fight to determine their undisputed champion. Sitting champ Ryan Bader was in the light heavyweight World Grand Prix, so to keep the heavyweight division moving, an interim title fight between Timothy Johnson and Valentin Moldovsky went down last
Keyboard warriors abound in the world of mixed martial arts, but most of them are smart enough not to show up at a UFC fighter’s gym to challenge them in real life. Fortunately for us and our Sunday entertainment, some still do. Like the gentleman at the heart of this story, Jayden Draper, who repeatedly
Rashad Evans wins on Khabib Nurmagomedov’s Eagle FC 44 USA debut Miami, FL — Former UFC heavyweight champion, Rashad Evans, stepped back into the cage on Friday night as the co-main event at Khabib Nurmagomedov’s Eagle FC 44 which also happened to be the promotion’s American debut. It was a bit of a lackluster return
By MMA Junkie Staff | January 30, 2022 12:40 am ET PHOENIX – Bellator is heading back to Paris with the heavyweight title on the line. After Ryan Bader’s win over Valentin Moldavsky in the Bellator 273 main event Saturday at Footprint Center in Phoenix, the promotion announced Bader (29-7 MMA, 7-2 BMMA) will defend his
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Sullivan Cauley hoped to steal some of the shine Ben Parrish accumulated in 2021, and he did just that. Cauley faced Parrish in the light heavyweight opener of Bellator 273 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, and earned a dominant TKO at the 4:35 mark of the opening frame in front of a hometown crowd.
Bellator 273 results and highlights will drop in this space throughout the night following the conclusion of each matchup from inside the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The January 29 card features a highly anticipated unification bout in the promotion’s heavyweight division. On one side will be reigning division king Ryan Bader as he looks
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Former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker knows a lot of people are counting him out ahead of his Israel Adesanya rematch at UFC 271. After losing his title to Adesanya at UFC 243, Whittaker has won three straight fights and has worked his way back to the champion. While Whittaker’s rise back to the title
Bellator 273 is set to go down later tonight (Sat., Jan. 29, 2022) from inside Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. In the main event, Ryan Bader will take on Valentin Moldavsky in a heavyweight title unification bout. In the co-headlining act, Darrion Caldwell will face Enrique Barzola in 135-pound action. The winner of that fight
Following a loss in his first fight of 2021 in May to Johnny Campbell at Bellator 258, featherweight Henry Corrales was able to rebound in his follow-up bout in October at Bellator 268 versus Vladyslav Parubchenko and close out his year with a win. The win over Parubchenko was even better for the fact that
On this day in 2015, Conor McGregor made his headliner debut stateside in Boston against Dennis Siver. After this performance, McGregor would compete for the interim featherweight title and continue his rapid rise to superstardom. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service
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