Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2024-02-24, good mma bout: Ryan Bader vs Renan Ferreira gets three stars.
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2023-02-04, mma bout not particularly good: Ryan Bader vs Fedor Emelianenko 2 gets two stars (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2023).
Fedor vs Bader 2 is scheduled to take place Saturday, February 4th, at the Kia Forum in Inglewood (California, United States), in a 5-round heavyweight (265 lbs, 120 kg) bout; it is the main event of Bellator 290 and it is valid for the Bellator heavyweight world championship (held by Bader). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2022-05-06, mma fight not so exciting: Ryan Bader vs Cheick Kongo 2 gets two stars (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2022).
Kongo vs Bader 2 is the main event of Bellator 280 (also known as Bellator Paris) and it is valid for the Bellator heavyweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2022-01-29, close and tough mma fight: Ryan Bader vs Valentin Moldavsky gets three stars (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2022).
Moldavsky vs Bader is the main event of Bellator 273 and it is valid for the Bellator heavyweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2021-10-16, good start with some nice exchanges: the mma fight Ryan Bader vs Corey Anderson gets three stars (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2021).
Anderson vs Bader is the semi-final of the Bellator light heavyweight World Grand Prix tournament; undercard of Vadim Nemkov vs Julius Anglickas – Bellator 268. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2021-04-09, pretty good mma fight: Ryan Bader vs Lyoto Machida 2 gets three stars.
In their first fight, on August 4, 2012 Machida had defeated Bader via ko (Lyoto Machida vs Ryan Bader I); this second fight, main event of Bellator 256, is the quarter-final of the Bellator light-heavyweight world grand prix tournament. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2020-08-21, good fight between Ryan Bader and Vadim Nemkov: it gets three stars.
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-09-07, we hope to see a rematch between Ryan Bader and Cheick Kongo: it gets two stars.The current Bellator Hw, former light-Hw champion and Tuf 8 tournament winner Ryan Bader entered this fight with a record of 27-5-0 (56% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.7 heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Stipe Miocic). He suffered his last loss when he faced Anthony Johnson in 2016 (Johnson vs Bader) since then he has won seven fights defeating Matt Mitrione (Ryan Bader vs Matt Mitrione) and Fedor Emelianenko in his last two (Fedor Emelianenko vs Ryan Bader).
His opponent, the black belt in karate and kendo Cheick Kongo, has a mma record of 30-10-2 (60% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.10 in the same weight class. He lost to Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal in 2015 (Lawal vs Kongo) but then he has won eight bouts beating Timothy Johnson (Cheick Kongo vs Timothy Johnson) and Vitaly Minakov in his last two (Vitaly Minakov vs Cheick Kongo 2). Bader vs Kongo, main event of Bellator 226, is valid for the Bellator heavyweight title (Bader’s first defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-01-26, good start between Fedor Emelianenko and Ryan Bader: it gets three stars.The 42-year-old former Pride, world combat sambo champion and black belt in judo Fedor Emelianenko entered this fight with a professional mma record of 38-5-0 (76% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.19 heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Daniel Cormier). ‘The Last Emperor’ lost to Matt Mitrione in 2017 (Fedor Emelianenko vs Matt Mitrione) but he came back to win in 2018 against Frank Mir (Fedor Emelianenko vs Frank Mir) and Chael Sonnen (Fedor Emelianenko vs Chael Sonnen).
His opponent, the Bellator light-Hw champion and Tuf 8 tournament winner Ryan Bader (seven years younger than Fedor), has an official record of 26-5-0 (54% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.5 in the same weight class. He suffered his last loss when he faced Anthony Johnson in 2016 (Johnson vs Bader) since then he has won six fights defeating Muhammed King Mo Lawal (Ryan Bader vs Muhammed King Mo Lawal) and Matt Mitrione in 2018 (Ryan Bader vs Matt Mitrione). Fedor vs Bader, main event of Bellator 214, is the final of the Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix tournament and it is valid for the Bellator heavyweight title; they also fight each other a second time on February 4th, 2023 (Ryan Bader vs Fedor Emelianenko 2). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-10-12, some good exchanges between Ryan Bader and Matt Mitrione but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two.The black belt in Bjj, Bellator light-Hw champion and Tuf 8 tournament winner Ryan Bader entered this fight with a professional mma record of 25-5-0 (56% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.5 heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Daniel Cormier). He lost to Anthony Johnson in 2016 (Johnson vs Bader) but then he has won five bouts beating Phil Davis (Davis vs Bader 2), Linton Vassell (Ryan Bader vs Linton Vassell) and Muhammed King Mo Lawal in his last three (Ryan Bader vs Muhammed King Mo Lawal).
His opponent, the black belt in karate Matt Mitrione, has an official record of 13-5-0 (85% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he entered as the No.13 in the same weight class. He lost two consecutive bouts between 2015 and 2016, against Ben Rothwell (Rothwell vs Mitrione) and Travis Browne (Browne vs Mitrione), but then he has won four fights beating Fedor Emelianenko (Fedor Emelianenko vs Matt Mitrione) and Roy Nelson in his last two (Roy Nelson vs Matt Mitrione 2). Bader vs Mitrione, main event of Bellator 207, is the semifinal of the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix tournament. Watch the video and rate this fight!
