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Vitaly Minakov

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Last Fight

Bellator 79

Nov 2, 2012 9:00 PM EDT
Vitaly Minakov vs Vladimir Starcencov

Next Fight

Bellator 96

Jun 19, 2013 9:04 PM EDT
Vitaly Minakov vs Ron Sparks

Morning Report: Chris Weidman imitates Anderson Silva; Nick Diaz's War MMA targeting summer debut

Chris Weidman imitates Anderson Silva, Cat Zingano joins Black House, and Nick Diaz's new fight promotion, War MMA, targets its summer debut.

Bellator 96 adds heavyweight tournament; moves to three hours

Get all the details on Bellator's latest addition to its summer series debut on Spike TV inside.

Heavyweight tourney openers added to six-bout main card for Bellator's summer series kickoff

Bellator will open their summer series with a six-fight main card, including the addition of a heavyweight tournament opening round.

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Take a look at how the Bloody Elbow staff ranked fighters in each of Bellator's eight divisions.

Bellator 79: Finalists emerge in Hale, Shamhalaev (full event results withs gifs)

A detailed review of the entire Bellator 79 show accompanied by animated gifs.

Bellator 79 results: Hale vs. Santos

Keep up with all the Bellator 79 action from the Casino Rama in Orillia, Canada.

Bellator 79: Live event video stream, discussion and play-by-play

Get all your Bellator 79 fixings here: streaming video of the full card along with live discussion and dramatically but tastefully overdone play-by-play.

Bellator 79 results and LIVE video stream for 'Hale vs Santos' TONIGHT (Nov. 2) on MTV2

MMAmania.com will be providing live video stream and round-by-round coverage of Bellator 79 tonight, which features two season seven tournament semifinal bouts in the heavyweight and featherweight divisions.

Bellator 79: Preview of all the Heavyweight and Featherweight tournament action

Join us as we preview the fights at Bellator 79, featuring Thiago Santos vs. Richard Hale and Mike Richman vs. Shahbulat Shamhalaev in tournament action.

Bellator 79 weigh in results LIVE from Rama for 'Hale vs Santos'

MMAmania.com will be providing live weigh-in coverage of the Bellator 79 event, which features two tournament semifinal bouts in the heavyweight and featherweight tournament.

Bellator to air all future MMA events on R2 in Russia beginning Sept. 28

Bellator Fighting Championships continues to expand its reach as the promotion has partnered with Russian broadcasting giant Russia 2, for the largest MMA broadcast alliance in Russian history.

Winter Warriors: Finding Next Fedor In Bellator's Russian MMA Prospect Invasion

Check out the top three upcoming Russian mixed martial arts (MMA) prospects now that the most notable fighter from the world's largest nation, Fedor Emelianenko, has retired from the sport. Fight videos and highlights included.

Bellator Notebook: Alexander Sarnavskiy, Shawn Bunch Highlight Recent Signings

In preparation for a busy summer and fall, Bellator has been adding fighters to all of their divisions, including a top 155-pound prospect Tuesday.

Bellator signs undefeated Russian 'Tiger' Alexander Sarnavskiy

Bellator's Season Seven Lightweight Tournament just got its #1 seed, as Bellator Fighting Championships has signed undefeated lightweight Alexander "Tiger" Sarnavskiy.

Bellator Signs Undefeated, Four-Time World Sambo Champion Vitaly Minakov

Bellator Fighting Championships has added the undefeated Sambo Champion Vitaly Minakov to the heavyweight ranks.

Morning Report: Manny Pacquiao, Mighty Mouse, and the Winners and Losers of a Busy Fight Weekend

Manny Pacquiao loses a controversial, indefensible split decision to Timothy Bradley, Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson defeats Ian "Uncle Creep" McCall at UFC on FX 3, and Jose Aldo joins the growing UFC injury list on today's edition of the Morning Report.

2011 World MMA Scouting Report Review - Heavyweights

If there is one fighter whose profile among mixed martial arts fans benefited the most due to his inclusion in the 2011 World MMA Scouting Report, it was M-1 Challenge Heavyweight Champion Guram Gugenishvili.

World MMA Heavyweight Scouting Report: #7 - Vitaly Minakov

Russia has a storied history of producing great heavyweight talent, most notably Fedor Emelianenko, Alexsander Emelianenko, and Sergei Kharitonov. While Fedor was obviously a kingpin at the top of the worldwide division for roughly a decade, time and the progressing skills of other top-flight talents are now obstacles in the way of his continued dominance.

Vitaly Minakov Opponents

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