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Ryan Bader made history this past Saturday night – but how far did it catapult him up the most important rankings list in the sport?
Bader (27-5 MMA, 5-0 BMMA) needed just 35 seconds to knock out Russian legend Fedor Emelianenko (38-6 MMA, 2-2 BMMA) to win the heavyweight title in the Bellator 214 main event. That made him the second two-division champion in Bellator history – but the first to hold two titles at the same time.
Now Bader has the big-man title to think about, along with the light heavyweight belt.
Heading into Bellator 214, Bader was No. 13 on our pound-for-pound list – the only Bellator fighter in our Top 18. But just how far did he climb in the new rankings by becoming a two-division titleholder?
Find out in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA pound-for-pound rankings. Check out the new look of that list, as well as the other divisions impacted by this past weekend’s event.
Matt Brown thought he would get a dream retirement scenario to end his MMA career. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen that way. Brown announced Saturday that he was hanging up his UFC gloves after a 28-fight stint with the promotion in which he went 15-13 and racked up a number...
Just like he did throughout his career, Nursulton Ruziboev hopes he can bounce around weight classes in the UFC. Ruziboev (34-8-2 MMA, 2-0 UFC) drops back down to welterweight to face Joaquin Buckley (18-6 MMA, 8-4 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 56 (ESPN/ESPN+) co-headliner at Enterprise Center in...
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