Bellator returns to Arizona for the second time in just over four months to host Bellator 273 at the Footprints Center in Phoenix.
In the headliner, former double champ and current heavyweight champ Ryan Bader (28-7) and interim heavyweight champ Valentin Moldavsky (11-1) square off to unify the Bellator heavyweight title. Bader is a tenured MMA veteran with a resume many can not compete with. The 38-year-old is an extremely high-level wrestler who packs a heavy punch, to say the least. In his last bout, he was knocked out of the Light Heavyweight Grand Prix by Corey Anderson at Bellator 268.