The life of a professional fighter isn’t all glitz and glamour.
As if getting punched, kicked, kneed, choked and twisted into a pretzel on a regular basis isn’t enough, fighters attract a general wackiness that makes their lives, well...interesting.
A faked injury. A near finish. An essential forfeit in the cage.
On Saturday night, grizzled MMA veterans Travis Fulton and Johnathan Ivey met for a heavyweight title at Colosseum Combat 45 in Kokomo, Ind. And the proceedings could not have gotten more bizarre.
TEMECULA, Calif. — Bellator flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane gives MMA Fighting’s E. Casey Leydon a backstage pass for her title defense at Bellator 201 on Friday night.