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• Bellator Sets Lightweight Tourney Matchups; Huerta Draws Unbeaten Hinton
• By Mike Chiappetta 3/19/2010 11:43 PM ET
• Bellator has finalized its lightweight tournament bracket, scheduled to begin on April 8 in Hollywood, Fla. Newly signed pickup Roger Huerta will kick off the season two tournament, squaring off ... More »
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• MMA Roundtable: Who's Under Most Pressure to Win in Upcoming Cards?
• By Mike Chiappetta 3/17/2010 8:49 AM ET
• With a short burst of MMA action upcoming around the world in the next two weeks, it seems like a good time to take a look at some of the questions surrounding the fighters and events that are soon to ... More »
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• Roger Huerta Signs with Bellator, Promises Faceoff with Eddie Alvarez
• By Mike Chiappetta 3/15/2010 4:24 PM ET
• In recent weeks, Bellator has signed television deals with Fox Sports, NBC and Telemundo and venue deals with the Madison Square Garden company, and now, they've added their biggest signing in the ... More »
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• Bellator Books Eddie Alvarez vs. Josh Neer
• By Michael David Smith 2/16/2010 5:36 PM ET
• Bellator Fighting Championships has announced that Eddie Alvarez, the lightweight champion who is widely regarded as the promotion's best and most popular fighter, will take on former UFC fighter Josh ... More »
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• MMA Top 10 Lightweights: B.J. Penn by Far the Best
• By Michael David Smith 11/16/2009 8:27 AM ET
• The lightweight division in mixed martial arts consists of B.J. Penn and everyone else. We all know that Penn, the UFC champion, has established himself as the top lightweight in the sport. But after ... More »
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• DREAM.12 Video: Katsunori Kikuno's Standing Crucifix on Eddie Alvarez
• By Ray Hui 10/26/2009 1:30 PM ET
• Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez, widely considered the No. 3 lightweight in the world, tapped out DEEP titleholder Katsunori Kikuno at DREAM.12 on Sunday. But early on Alvarez was in ... More »
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• Eddie Alvarez Wins at Dream.12, Bellator Champ Keeps Getting Better
• By Michael David Smith 10/25/2009 6:54 AM ET
• In a match-up of the Bellator Fighting Championships lightweight champion and the DEEP lightweight champion, Eddie Alvarez demonstrated by defeating Katsunori Kikuno with a second-round submission at ... More »
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• DREAM.12 Results
• By Ray Hui 10/25/2009 5:06 AM ET
• Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem tapped out British veteran James Thompson with a first-round standing guillotine in the main event of Sunday's DREAM.12 at the Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka, ... More »
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• DREAM.12 Live Blog: Overeem vs. Thompson, Sakuraba vs. Galesic, More
• By Ray Hui 10/25/2009 2:25 AM ET
• FanHouse has live results of DREAM.12 at the Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka, Japan. DREAM.12 marks the first time ever that a major Japanese promotion will utilize a cage, a hexagon dubbed as the "White ... More »
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• Bellator Champ Eddie Alvarez to Fight DEEP Champ at DREAM.12
• By Ray Hui 9/29/2009 9:51 AM ET
• Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez will face off against the DEEP 154-pound titleholder Katsunori Kikuno at DREAM.12 on Oct. 25 in Osaka, Japan. DREAM announced Tuesday Alvarez vs. Kikuno ... More »
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• Eddie Alvarez Gives a Bully a Beatdown
• By Michael David Smith 8/26/2009 10:10 PM ET
• Bully Beatdown, the MTV show in which Jason "Mayhem" Miller forces bullies into the cage with MMA fighters while the bullies' victims sit by and watch, returns for its second season Thursday night. In ... More »
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• MMA Top 10 Lightweights: B.J. Penn Is the Best, Then There's Everyone Else
• By Michael David Smith 8/11/2009 7:00 PM ET
• In B.J. Penn's seven fights since returning to the UFC in 2006, he's 4-3. That record doesn't even come close to telling the story of Penn, the most dominant lightweight fighter in MMA history. ... More »
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• Lyoto Machida: Fighter of the Half Year
• By Michael David Smith 6/30/2009 2:55 PM ET
• The year is half over, and we're recognizing the best in MMA in the first six months of 2009. Up first is our Fighter of the Half Year, Lyoto Machida. ... More »
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• MMA Top 10 Lightweights: Eddie Alvarez, Diego Sanchez Impress
• By Michael David Smith 6/21/2009 11:30 AM ET
• It was a big weekend for the lightweights in MMA, with Eddie Alvarez winning the Bellator lightweight tournament on Friday night (above) and Diego Sanchez beating Clay Guida by split decision in a ... More »
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• Hector Lombard, Eddie Alvarez Win Bellator Titles
• By Michael David Smith 6/19/2009 11:30 PM ET
• Eddie Alvarez beat Toby Imada to win the lightweight title and Hector Lombard beat Jared Hess to win the middleweight title Friday night as the Bellator Fighting Championships brought its inaugural ... More »
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• MMA Top 10 Lightweights: Frank Edgar Up, Sean Sherk Down, JZ Calvan Out
• By Michael David Smith 5/26/2009 6:32 AM ET
• After a weekend in mixed martial arts that saw big lightweight fights in both the UFC and Dream, it's time to revise our list of the Top 10 lightweights in MMA. Frank Edgar is new on our list after ... More »
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• Toby Imada Becomes YouTube Star
• By Ariel Helwani 5/06/2009 9:02 AM ET
• Toby Imada has competed in 34 mixed martial arts fights over the last 11 years. Fourteen of his 22 victories have come via submission. However, he will be hard-pressed to top the inverted triangle ... More »
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• Bellator Hopes to Ride Early Buzz
• By Ariel Helwani 5/05/2009 3:07 PM ET
• The upstart Bellator Fighting Championships mixed martial arts promotion held its inaugural show on April 3. However, when historians look back on their growth as an MMA organization, they will ... More »
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• MMA Top 10 Lightweights: Where Do Shinya Aoki and Eddie Alvarez Go Now?
• By Michael David Smith 4/05/2009 8:02 PM ET
• Although hardly anyone in the United States saw the fights, two of the top five lightweights in MMA were in action this weekend, as Shinya Aoki lost at Dream 8 and Eddie Alvarez won in the debut of ... More »
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• MMA Top 10 Lightweights: 1-B.J. Penn, 2-Shinya Aoki, 3-Sean Sherk
• By Michael David Smith 2/13/2009 10:13 AM ET
• B.J. Penn was thoroughly manhandled by Georges St. Pierre when he tried to move up to welterweight at UFC 94, but he's still the best lightweight in mixed martial arts, and he has a big lightweight ... More »
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