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Last night, in the main event of Bellator 214, light heavyweight champ Ryan Bader became Bellator’s first two-division titleholder, knocking out Fedor Emelianenko in less than a minute to capture the Bellator heavyweight title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heading into this fight, Ryan Bader says he drilled the very punch he used to topple Emelianenko many times. He knew there would be an opening when the Russian legend engaged, and practiced extensively to make sure he’d be ready for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou know what? I saw that moment,\u201d Bader said Saturday night at Bellator 214\u2019s post-fight press conference (via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cAnd you can ask my team, we practiced that moment a lot. I saw that punch was going to do it. You can\u2019t see his right hand because he throws from his hip. He\u2019s very hard to see, he throws hard. But in doing so, you leave yourself exposed. And we felt that he was going to respect my wrestling a lot, and I could put one up top. If you look through any of the footage on the\u00a0Countdown<\/em>\u00a0shows and all of that kind of stuff, we were practicing that punch the whole time. Throwing a jab, getting our distance, and then feinting and throwing that left hook, and we knew he\u2019d be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a hard punch right there. He went down, and I saw that over and over again already, so it just kinda played out how we saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, Ryan Bader is not the only fighter out there to capture gold in the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions as of late. Daniel Cormier also recently accomplished that feat in the UFC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bader and Cormier have a bit of a rivalry from their shared days in the UFC, but for the moment, Bader doesn’t seem too interested in chasing a champ-champ vs. champ-champ fight with Cormier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m over that,\u201d Bader said. \u201cBut he\u2019s one of those guys, he proves himself over and over again. He\u2019s a champ, in and out of the cage there, beating monsters. Nothing but respect from over here. It\u2019d be fun to do a cross-promotion for the champ -champ-champ-champ, but we\u2019ll see if that ever happens.\u201d
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What do you think the future holds for Ryan Bader after Bellator 214? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article first appeared on <\/em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a> on 1\/27\/2019. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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