Bellator’s longtime strategy has been to fill its preliminary cards with local fighters. For starters, the local fighters help sell tickets. And when the promotion returns to that market, it has a database of local talent to pluck from again. Once in a while, though, the promotion finds a diamond in the rough that it separates from the rest of the pack
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