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Bring Her In: Bellator Fighter Announces She Has Signed With WWE

June 30, 2022

You need to bring someone in. One of the biggest WWE stories over the last few years has been the amount of releases the company has made. WWE has let all kinds of wrestlers go and the roster is far more sparse than it was before. At some point WWE needs to bring someone else in, which is what they are doing now, albeit from a sport outside of professional wrestling. Former Bellator fighter Valerie Loureda has announced that she has signed a deal with WWE. Loureda is the first Cuban American woman in WWE and wanted to represent Latin culture. This comes after Loureda trained in the WWE Performance Center back in May, leading to speculation that she could sign with WWE. There is no word on when she will start working for WWE full time. I am honored to become the first Cuban American woman in history to sign with the WWE. I come from a family of immigrants, now it’s my time to represent our Latin culture, I was destined for this. Thank you for this opportunity @WWE @WWENXT I will make ..

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Put Her On The List: WWE Likely To Sign Another MMA Star

June 2, 2022

There is a history there. Wrestling has a history of bringing in athletes from other sports and seeing how much success they can have. It is something that has worked well for decades and will continue to do the same for years to come. One of the sports with a solid track record is mixed martial arts, and now WWE is trying their hand with another fighter coming over to wrestling. According to Fightful Select, WWE is expected to sign Bellator fighter Valerie Loureda. This comes after Loureda, a fighter with a 3-1 career record, spent a week at the WWE Performance Center and impressed the company. WWE is hoping to have Loueda start her official training at the Performance Center in July. There is no word on when she could start regularly appearing in WWE. Opinion: It makes sense for WWE to try signing another mixed martial artist as they certainly have a history of success with them. Why not see what you can find out there? WWE has found stars such as Riddle, Brock Lesnar, Shayna Baszl..

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Mauro Ranallo: “My Mental Health Was Deteriorating At A Rapid Pace”

May 27, 2018

NXT announcer Mauro Ranallo recently spoke with Sports Illustrated’s Extra Mustard section to talk about his hectic schedule, working SmackDown, NXT and his relationship with WWE. Ranallo first explained how his hectic schedule has affected him. He speaks about his time on SmackDown Live before moving to NXT: “With WWE, the biggest issue was the weekly travel for SmackDown. I also had a job with Showtime Championship Boxing, and now Bellator MMA, so I was busy almost every weekend and the fact that I had to be on the road with SmackDown Live, which was a dream job in live TV on the USA Network, was going to kill me. Literally. My close friends saw how it was affecting me, and it just came to a head. There were other issues, and they’ve been dealt with, and honestly, I’ve never had a better relationship with WWE, especially Paul [Triple H] Levesque and Michael Cole, two people who are instrumental in me being the voice of NXT. The amount of support I’ve received from everyone, and I mea..

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Fightful Staff Prediction Standings For Bellator 196, ROH Supercard Of Honor XII, UFC 223, WWE NXT Takeover: New Orleans & WWE Wrestlemania 34

April 14, 2018

This past week, the staff here at Fightful made predictions for Bellator 196, ROH Supercard Of Honor XII, UFC 223, WWE NXT Takeover: New Orleans & WWE Wrestlemania 34. The event is over and here are the standings for the Fightful Staff Predictions: (Note: Winners for each section are listed in BOLD.) David Tees: (6-1) MMA - (12-16) Wrestling - (18-17) Overall Kyler James: (3-4) MMA - (15-13) Wrestling - (18-17) Overall Jeremy Lambert: (4-3) MMA - (14-14) Wrestling - (18-17) Overall Ryan Cook: (4-3) MMA - (14-14) Wrestling - (18-17) Overall John Moorehouse: (1-6) MMA - (15-13) Wrestling - (16-19) Overall Sean Ross Sapp: (5-2) MMA - (12-16) Wrestling - (17-18) Overall Anna Bauert: (N/A) MMA - (12-16) Wrestling - (12-16) Overall ***Only Picked Wrestling Events*** James Lynch (1-6) MMA - (N/A) Wrestling - (1-6) Overall ***Only Picked MMA Events***

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Fightful MMA Rankings: UFC & Bellator MMA (Updated: 4/8/2018)

April 11, 2018

As the curator of the Fightful MMA Rankings, I wanted to give everybody a heads up to a major change in the rankings system for 2018. Just to see what each weight class would look like, all fighters who haven't competed in over a year (excluding champions) were removed from the rankings. This is going to be done like this all year and fighters will get added back to the rankings when they compete again. Note: Rankings are organized and maintained by David Tees Ultimate Fighting Championships (Top 15) Heavyweight Division Champion: Stipe Miocic 1. Francis Ngannou 2. Junior Dos Santos 3. Alistair Overeem 4. Curtis Blaydes 5. Alexander Volkov 6. Fabricio Werdum 7. Derrick Lewis 8. Mark Hunt 9. Alexei Oleinik 10. Shamil Abdurakhimov 11. Andre Arlovski 12. Stefan Struve 13. Marcin Tybura 14. Tim Johnson 15. Tai Tuivasa Light Heavyweight Division Champion: Daniel Cormier 1. Alexander Gustafsson 2. Volkan Oezdemir 3. Glover Teixeira 4. Mauricio Rua..

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Fight Size Update: Bobby Lashley Still Under Contract To Bellator MMA, Al Snow Buys OVW

April 11, 2018

This is the Fight Size Update for the evening of April 10th. - In the video above, Pro Wrestling Unlimited discussed Chris Jericho returning to WWE for the Greatest Royal Rumble. - Paige expressed gratitude for the response by fans and wrestlers to her retirement. Completely overwhelmed with the love and support. Thank you everyone. Seriously means so much to me. This isn't the end though. Just the beginning of something special. #ThankYou #ThisIsMyHouse pic.twitter.com/WUhEKdXfMd — PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) April 10, 2018 - The WWE Hall of Fame did 665,000 viewers on the USA network and the WrestleMania 34 Kick Off had an average of 762,000 viewers. - In this video, The Revival talk about facing Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt next week for a chance at the Raw Tag Team Championship. - SEScoops' Damon Martin reports Bobby Lashley is still under contract with Bellator MMA. - After his debut, No Way Jose was interviewed backstage about his match and the Superstar Shakeup. -..

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Fightful Staff Predictions For Bellator 196, ROH Supercard Of Honor XII, UFC 223, WWE NXT Takeover: New Orleans & WWE Wrestlemania 34

April 7, 2018

There’s a plethora of big events this weekend in the form of Bellator 196, ROH Supercard Of Honor XII, UFC 223, WWE NXT Takeover: New Orleans & WWE Wrestlemania 34. The staff here at Fightful has made their predictions for the shows. Bellator 196 Ben Henderson vs. Roger Huerta Picking Henderson: David Tees, Kyler James, Jeremy Lambert, Sean Ross Sapp & Ryan Cook Picking Huerta: Final Tally: Henderson (5) - Huerta (0) Petra Castkova vs. Denise Kielholtz Picking Castkova: Kyler James, Jeremy Lambert, Sean Ross Sapp & Ryan Cook Picking Kielholtz: David Tees Final Tally: Castkova (4) - Kielholtz (1) Brian Moore vs. Giorgio Belsanti Picking Moore: David Tees, Jeremy Lambert, Sean Ross Sapp & Ryan Cook Picking Belsanti: Kyler James Final Tally: Moore (4) - Belsanti (1) Adam Borics vs. Teodor Nikolov Picking Borics: David Tees, Kyler James, Sean Ross Sapp & Jeremy Lambert Picking Nikolov: Ryan Cook Final Tally: Borics (4) - Nikolov (1) Ed Ruth vs. Ion Pascu Picking Ruth: Da..

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Bellator 153 Andrey Koreshkov vs Benson Henderson live coverage and results

March 3, 2018

Submitted by PFontaine on Fri, 2016-04-22 15:37Bellator 153 : Koreshkov vs Henderson is on Spike TV Friday night at 8 pm eastern from Connecticut. The show airs one hour earlier than usual and features the Bellator debut of former WEC and UFC lightweight champion Benson “Smooth” Henderson. He challenges Bellator welterweight champion Andrei Koreshkov in the main event. Bellator mainstay Patricio “Pitbull” Freire fights in the co-main and the show also features the return of “MVP” Michael Venom Page. Mr Cyborg even makes an appearance! Show opens with a video package with clips of various MMA media talking about the signing of Benson Henderson, including Ariel Helwani, Bas Rutten and Kenny Rice. They made the signing feel very important. This led to footage of Andrey Koreshkov just destroying dudes. Really good opening that made the main event of tonight's show feel like a big deal. Like last week's show, they are airing the fighter walkouts, which is a nice touch that separ..

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Bellator Fighter Appearing at Sunday’s Slammiversary Event

June 27, 2017

<p>It was revealed in a 30-minute preview <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/video/" title="video">video</a></strong> for Sunday’s Slammiversary event that Bellator’s Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal will be in Lashley’s corner at the event. As noted, Lashley will take on Alberto El Patron for the unified World Championship on the show.</p>

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Mauro Ranallo’s Contract Details Revealed

June 23, 2017

<p>The word <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/going/" title="going">going</a></strong> around is that Mauro Ranallo has signed a deal for two years with WWE that will also <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/allow/" title="allow">allow</a></strong> him to appear and work for non-wrestling events. This <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/means/" title="means">means</a></strong> that he can still work with Bellator MMA under WWE clearance while simultaneously working for WWE.</p><p>It was <a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/2017/06/22/mauro-ranallos-nxt-debut-revealed/">announced</a> earlier that Ranallo will be joining the colour commentating team on WWE’s NXT starting from this week. He will also be calling the iconic and hyped Mayweather vs McGregor fight in August of this year.</p>