Bellator 71’s Brett Rogers says house fire sparked rift with opponent Kevin Asplund

There’s no getting around it for Brett Rogers. No need to mince words.

“The last year has been hell,” Rogers today told MMAjunkie.com Radio.

And how. This past summer, Rogers was cut from Strikeforce after a domestic-violence incident. In the fall, he served jail time for it. But the recent Bellator signee believes he has come out a better man because of it.