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Video: Bellator 111 highlights with Dantas’ ‘Submission of the Year’ candidate

BAD MMA News — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 07:27:38 +0000

Check out the video highlights from Bellator 111, including bantamweight champion Eduardo Dantas ‘ early “Submission of the Year” candidate over Anthony Leone . Friday’s event, which aired on Spike TV from WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Okla., also included the opening round of the Season 10 heavyweight tournament. Watch the highlights above, or check out a full Bellator 111 recap . For full coverage of Bellator 111 , stay tuned to the MMA Events section of the site. Filed under: Bellator , Featured , Featured Videos , News Tagged: Anthony Leone , Bellator 111 , Eduardo Dantas

Anthony Leone on Bellator 111 title offer: ‘I almost pooped my pants’

BAD MMA News — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 20:09:14 +0000

Anthony Leone remembers when he was a kid and he’d sit on the couch and watch boxing with his grandfather. He was horrified by what he watched. “I was thinking, why would anybody want to do this?” he said. “And that was just with boxing – with big gloves and punches only. So I think that kid would think, damn I grew up to be a bad motherf—er.” Leone (13-6 MMA, 3-3 BMMA) remembers that early introduction to combat sports and laughs. But now a successful MMA bantamweight – one who fights reigning champion Eduardo Dantas (15-3 MMA, 5-0 BMMA) in Friday’s Bellator 111 headliner – he’s still as loose and wide-eyed as ever

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Anthony Leone replaces injured Rafael Silva, faces champ Eduardo Dantas at Bellator 111

BAD MMA News — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:31:05 +0000

Bellator MMA’s 2013 Summer Series bantamweight tournament winner Rafael “Morcego” Silva (21-3 MMA, 2-0 BMMA) has been forced to withdraw from a planned fight with champ Eduardo Dantas (15-3 MMA, 5-0 BMMA), and Anthony Leone (13-6 MMA, 3-3 BMMA) has agreed to take his place. Bellator officials today announced that the man Silva beat in the tournament final, Leone, agreed to take the fight when Season 9 bantamweight tournament winner Joe Warren was forced to turn down the opportunity. “This was a difficult process with Silva suffering injury, but when we considered all our options, we felt like this decision made the most sense,” Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney stated. “After we heard the news on Silva, we immediately made the call to our other bantamweight tournament winner Joe Warren. Joe informed us he was still rehabbing a previous knee injury and would be unable to compete on the March 7 card, but he will be 100 percent ready to go for his originally scheduled fight in May.” Dantas vs.

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Anthony Leone replaces injured Rafael Silva, faces champ Eduardo Dantas at Bellator 111 – MMA Junkie