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Bellator MMA staging two major cards on back-to-back evenings isn’t particularly strange, especially by MMA standards. After all, this is a wacky sport. But, a shopworn 42-year-old Fedor Emelianenko is still racking up wins and Ryan Bader is now, at the very worst, a Top 20 heavyweight. Bader isn’t exactly what I would call an MMA scholar, but at the same time, he’s insightful enough hit upon some fundamental MMA philosophy, however weird it might be: “It’s kind of surreal, but it’s not.