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Bellator denies reports about champ Attila Vegh, releases medical report

BAD MMA News — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 22:20:00 +0000

As the story goes, Bellator light-heavyweight champion Attila Vegh wasn’t actually injured and instead was told to sit on the sidelines so the organization could book an interim title fight between Muhammed Lawal and Emanuel Newton for its pay-per-view debut on Nov. 2.

Muhammed Lawal-Emanuel Newton rematch for interim title on Bellator 106 PPV

BAD MMA News — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:15:00 +0000

Bellator MMA has another big rematch set for its first pay-per-view card. Muhammed Lawal (11-2 MMA, 3-1 BMMA) and Emanuel Newton (21-7-1 MMA, 4-1 BMMA) will meet for the promotion’s interim light heavyweight title at Bellator 106 in November. Promotion officials on Thursday announced the new fight booking.

Video: Bellator 97′s ‘King Mo’ discusses baffling origin of Jacob Noe feud

BAD MMA News — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:45:00 +0000

By now you’re probably well aware of the budding rivalry between Muhammed Lawal and Jacob Noe , who meet Wednesday in a “Summer Series” light-heavyweight tournament final at Bellator 97. Still, “King Mo” said he still doesn’t really comprehend how things turned contentious so quickly. The vets, who meet in a Spike TV-televised main-card bout (7 p.m. ET/PT), are fighting for a tournament title and a shot at the 205-pound belt. It’s the second tournament run for each, and Lawal said he felt like they shared some common ground during their first one

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‘King Mo’ calls Semmy Schilt the greatest all-around fighter of all time

BAD MMA News — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:45:00 +0000

Bellator light heavyweight Muhammed Lawal considers it fun to research fighters on BoxRec and Wikipedia in his spare time. He’s still a student of the game as much as he is a fighter. Recently, “King Mo” was contemplating the best all-around combatant, as a fight obsessive might do. And he talked to others about it, in the same way that others like him would. After a short fact-finding mission, Lawal believes the reportedly retired Semmy Schilt deserves that recognition

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Seth Petruzelli announces retirement following KO loss at Bellator 96

BAD MMA News — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:45:00 +0000

After nearly 13 years as a professional fighter, Seth Petruzelli will step away from the cage. The 33-year-old Petruzelli (14-8 MMA, 1-2 BFC) made the announcement Friday morning on his Facebook page. His announcement comes following a knockout loss to Muhammed Lawal on Wednesday night at Bellator 96. “The Silverback” goes out on a two-fight skid, with both losses coming in the first round as part of Bellator’s most recent two light heavyweight tournaments. Petruzelli, in his online statement, said has has lost some of the drive to fight the way he used to

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Bellator 96 weigh-in results: Five fighters miss their marks in Oklahoma

BAD MMA News — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:00 +0000

Bellator MMA’s “Summer Series” debut got off to a rough start on Tuesday with five fighters missing weight for their fights on their first tries on the scale. In the main event of Bellator 96, Muhammad Lawal (9-2 MMA, 1-1 BFC) looks to rebound from an upset loss to Emanuel Newton in his previous tournament outing when he meets Seth Petruzelli (14-7 MMA, 1-1 BFC) in the semifinals of the “Summer Series” four-man light heavyweight tourney. Both fighters were on target, with heavy favorite Lawal coming in at 205.2 pounds, while Petruzelli was 204.8. In the other 205-pound tournament semifinal fight, former Strikeforce champ Renato Sobral (37-10 MMA, 0-1 BFC), whose previous Bellator tourney run ended with a vicious KO loss to Mikhail Zayats , meets Jacob Noe (11-2 MMA, 2-1 BFC), whose nine-fight win streak also came to an end with a tourney defeat to Zayats. Noe came in 0.2 pounds over at 206.2, while “Babalu” was 204.4. Noe was given two hours to make the weight. In heavyweight tournament action, Vitaly Minakov (10-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) meets Ron Sparks (8-1 MMA, 3-1 BFC) on one side of the bracket. Sparks will have a decent size advantage at 264.6 pounds to Minakov’s 246