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Days before the back-to-back Bellator MMA bonanza went down, Matt Matrione said that if the heavyweight grand prix final ended up being between Ryan Bader and Chael Sonnen -- neither of whom competed at heavyweight a single time before this tournament -- it would discredit the promotion’s heavyweight division. Sonnen had some choice thoughts on the state of the heavyweights:
“Yeah, I think that’s right.