Bloody Elbow · Jan 29, 2022
Bellator 273: Bader vs Moldavsky preview, weigh-in results
Man was double-champ, can’t take that away from him.Bellator kicks of 2021 with a card that could easily represent a changing of the guard. A surging heavyweight phenom in Valentin Moldavsky (11-1) finally gets a chance to fight for gold as he faces Ryan Bader (28-7). Bader’s stint in Bellator has led to some new highs as he was double champ at heavyweight and light heavyweight for a while, but this new crop of fighters might just have his number. With a loss to Vadim Nemkov, he lost the light heavyweight title, but returned to the win column against a very game Lyoto Machida only to suffer another loss against Corey Anderson.