Filed under: Bellator , News , Videos LOS ANGELES – Bellator middleweight Hisaki Kato went from fighting active competitors to welcoming back one from a seven-year hiatus. When the promotion booked Kato (7-2 MMA, 2-1 BMMA) for Bellator 170 against Ralek Gracie (3-0 MMA, 0-0 BMMA), whose last fight was in 2010 under the now-defunct DREAM promotion, he figured the matchup was made for TV. A guy from a famous grappling family versus a kickboxing specialist? Easy to understand. “If we go to the ground, that’s his world,” Kato told MMAjunkie in advance of their Spike-televised fight on Saturday at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. “If we stand up, that’s my world.
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