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Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire Nearly Didn’t Fight Curran After Being Injured At Bellator Photo Shoot
Patricio Pitbull Freire put on a spectacular performance at Bellator 123 to win the featherweight championship from Pat Curran, however the fight almost didn’t happen. Freire pulled out of the bout several weeks before the event, but then relented and agreed to fight Curran several days after. He spoke with MMAFighting.com about the fight that […]
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Pat Curran Set To Fight Patricio Friere At Bellator 123
Patricio Friere will get his rematch with Pat Curran at Bellator 123 on September 5th. Friere got his first crack at Curran in January of 2013 at Bellator 85. Curran just barely edged out Friere with a split decision win. Since then Friere won the Bellator tournament with back to back to back wins. Curran […]
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Tito Ortiz Gets Three Years Probation For DUI Crash In LA
The Huntington Beach Bad Boy struck a deal with Los Angeles prosecutors in his DUI case from January. The former UFC light-heavyweight champion will serve 36 months of probation, attend alcohol classes and pay fines. TMZ broke the story this afternoon: Former MMA fighter Tito Ortiz copped a plea in his DUI case — from […]
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Tito Ortiz: ‘The UFC Swept Me Under The Rug. I Feel Bad For My Kids’
“I feel really bad for my fans and my kids. They will want to look at the history of what their father has done, and the fans will want to see what their favorite fighter has done. I have no control over it, of course, and I didn’t know it was that serious, but I […]
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Bellator Champ Pat Curran: ‘I’m going to beat the sh*t out of Pitbull’
“I know I’m going to beat the shit out of Pitbull, so I know for a fact I’m going to see Straus for a fourth time,” Curran boldly stated. “I’m not worried about ‘Pitbull.’ I know he’s a dangerous fighter, but I beat him before and I’m going to beat him even worse this time […]
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Medical Suspensions: Bellator 106’s Alvarez & Chandler Among 22 Suspended Fighters
By Evan Stoumbelis Bellator 106 took place this Saturday in Long Beach California during which Eddie Alvarez avenged his loss to the formerly undefeated Michael Chandler to win the lightweight belt, Emmanuel Newton defeated King Mo to win the interim light-heavyweight belt, Daniel Straus defeated Pat Curran to win the featherweight belt, and Joe Riggs […]
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Bjorn Rebney Expects ‘Crazy Fight’ Between Tito Ortiz and Rampage Jackson; Talks PPV Plans for Future
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney will be in the MMA spotlight in the coming months as Bellator not only makes their first foray in to the PPV market but also in the return of Eddie Alvarez to the Bellator cage. After the Bellator 98 post-fight Press Conference, Rebney discussed all things Bellator MMA including Alvarez’s rematch […]
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Bellator Debuts With Solid Ratings; 1.2 Million Peak | MMA News
Now with Strikeforce gone, Bellator seems to be the biggest North American competitor for the UFC and has a solid debut show to back them up. Once on MTV2, Bellator has recently shifted to a station that was once synonymous with free-TV MMA, Spike TV. The deal came after the UFC signed a multi-year […]