MMAjunkie.com<\/a>, Bader’s management team reached out and suggested a rematch with Nemkov. The Bellator president says that after the promotion signed Anthony Johnson and Yoel Romero, Bader is now much more interested in sticking around 205lbs than he was a few months ago.<\/p>\n“We were definitely heading in that direction (towards heavyweight), then I got a call recently from his management saying that he would like to consider fighting Nemkov again. So to me, we haven\u2019t flushed it out, but I think there is a desire for a rematch for that fight. If it happens, I\u2019m not sure, but we\u2019re definitely going to have a conversation with him about it because we were all about him getting into the heavyweight division and defending his belt, but that could change in the next couple of weeks,” Coker said of Bellator’s plans for Bader in 2021.<\/p>\n
The Bellator head also said that if Bader decides to stick around at 205lbs the promotion will have to figure out what to do with the heavyweight belt. Bader’s last title defense of the heavyweight championship came in September 2019, when he walked away with a No Contest against Cheick Kongo due to an accidental eye poke.<\/p>\n
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