{"id":326477,"date":"2019-09-27T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T18:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=326477"},"modified":"2019-09-27T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:51:39","slug":"tank-abbott-tried-to-brawl-ryan-bader-after-cheick-kongo-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/tank-abbott-tried-to-brawl-ryan-bader-after-cheick-kongo-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Tank Abbott tried to brawl Ryan Bader after Cheick Kongo fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Ryan Bader and Cheick Kongo&#8217;s Bellator 226 title fight was ruled a no contest due to an inadvertent eye poke, Bader and Kongo&#8217;s training partner Quinton &#8220;Rampage&#8221; Jackson nearly got into it. UFC legend Tank Abbott, an other Kongo stablemate, attempted to join in the fracas, but couldn&#8217;t make his way to the cage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tank Abbott on BMF Title, Nate Diaz\/Jorge Masvidal, Conor McGregor, Tito Ortiz, Dana White\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YeGY7PEmL4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"1RMnkx\">\u201cThere was a little skirmish after the fact, and I was trying to make my way into the cage but I couldn\u2019t get over the railing,\u201d Abbott told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YeGY7PEmL4Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submission Radio<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/9\/27\/20887065\/tank-abbott-tried-jump-ryan-bader-bellator-226-but-was-too-old-feeble-get-over-railing-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Mania<\/a>). \u201cI was going to throw down with Rampage and Cheick, but the barrier seemed to be too significant for me to get over at the time and I was kind of freaking my wife out, so I calmed down, but I was definitely on my way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott hoped to teach Bader a lesson, but things didn&#8217;t work out the way he planned. That&#8217;s lucky for Bader, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just gonna show them what a real thumb up looks like,\u201d Abbott continued. \u201cThe one you kind of deliver on the street, you know what I mean? But things were in my way I couldn\u2019t get over. So, things happen for a reason once again. So, [Bader] lucked out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tank Abbott, who is currently 54 years old, has not fought since 2013, when he was stopped by Ruben Villareal. His next most recent fight occurred in 2009, when he knocked out Mike Rourke. Since his last fights, Abbott underwent a liver transplant. He suffered several strokes during the procedure but thankfully emerged from the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 9\/27\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Ryan Bader and Cheick Kongo&#8217;s Bellator 226 title fight was ruled a no contest due to an inadvertent eye poke, Bader and Kongo&#8217;s training partner Quinton &#8220;Rampage&#8221; Jackson nearly got into it. UFC legend Tank Abbott, an other Kongo stablemate, attempted to join in the fracas, but couldn&#8217;t make his way to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":326478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10125,56319],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tank Abbott tried to brawl Ryan Bader after Cheick Kongo fight | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tank Abbott says he tried to get to Ryan Bader after the controversial Bellator 226 main event, but was unable to get over the barricade in front of him.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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