Bellator MMA is about to unleash by far its biggest event ever when it invades the Big Apple on Saturday. Bellator NYC will take place at Madison Square Garden, the Mecca of fighting, and to say the marquee is loaded with excellent matchups would be an understatement.
Headlining the whole shebang is a grudge match several years in the making as Wanderlei Silva will finally lock horns with Chael Sonnen. A two-time Ultimate Fighting Championship world title challenger and one of the most polarizing fighters in the sport, Sonnen and his trademark trash talk was ready to go at the scales on Friday and he weighed in at 205.