BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Jason Fischer https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Bellator 114 lineup complete, adds featherweight tourney semifinals to main card https://www.badmma.com/bellator-114-lineup-complete-adds-featherweight-tourney-semifinals-to-main-card.html https://www.badmma.com/bellator-114-lineup-complete-adds-featherweight-tourney-semifinals-to-main-card.html#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:48:14 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/bellator-114-lineup-complete-adds-featherweight-tourney-semifinals-to-main-card.html The 11-bout lineup for this month’s Bellator 114 event is now complete, and the main card now features the promotion’s Season 10 featherweight tournament quarterfinal matchups. Bellator MMA officials recently announced that Desmond Green  (10-2) vs. Will Martinez  (9-2-1) and Matt Bessette  (13-4) vs. Daniel Weichel  (32-8) round out a four-fight main card that also sees Bellator middleweight champ Alexander Shlemenko defend his belt against Brennan Ward in the main event. “Bellator 114: Shlemenko vs.

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/bellator-114-lineup-complete-adds-featherweight-tourney-semifinals-to-main-card.html/feed 0 How a Firework Nearly Put David Rickels’ Bellator 97 Title Fight with Michael Chandler in Jeopardy https://www.badmma.com/how-a-firework-nearly-put-david-rickels-bellator-97-title-fight-with-michael-chandler-in-jeopardy.html https://www.badmma.com/how-a-firework-nearly-put-david-rickels-bellator-97-title-fight-with-michael-chandler-in-jeopardy.html#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:30:24 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/how-a-firework-nearly-put-david-rickels-bellator-97-title-fight-with-michael-chandler-in-jeopardy.html Bellator MMA’s David “The Caveman” Rickels earned a lightweight title fight with champion Michael Chandler by winning the Bellator Season 8 Lightweight Tournament.  He defeated Lloyd Woodard, Jason Fischer and Saad Awad to get to the title fight, but an Independence Day firework accident nearly caused his championship aspirations to go up in flames. “I nearly blew up my hand on the Fourth of July.  It didn’t affect my training at all.  Everything is great, but I had a big open wound on my hand, and I had to be really careful as far as not getting infected,” Rickels told MMAWeekly.com.  “I’ve done a really good job, surprisingly.  I’ve got a resilient body and I’m feeling great going into this fight.” “I was lighting another one and the spark jumped over into the one in my hand and blew up.  It was a really weird deal.  It was a freak accident that could have cost me my damn hand let alone my title fight,” he explained. At first, Rickels didn’t know how much damage the firework caused, but his first thoughts were that it wasn’t good. “I said holy (expletive).  I was like, how am I going to explain this?  I didn’t know how bad it was because it was really dark and I couldn’t see anything.  I could feel my finger, so I was like, okay, that’s there at least,” he said.

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