Video: Rampage Brawls With Bader After Bellator 226 No Contest

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Bellator main events don’t always end in goofy No Contests. But when they do, boy are they ever odd. Usually someone ends up getting their dick destroyed … an axe kick on the ground or a spinning heel kick right to groin. At Bellator 226 in San Jose, it was an eye poke against the cage during the Ryan Bader vs. Cheick Kongo heavyweight title fight so subtle we’re still not sure it happened.

Bader was dominating Kongo but got a little too loose with his thumb as he pushed his opponent’s face against the cage to unleash some ground and pound. Kongo called foul, the ref paused the action, and Kongo told the doctors he couldn’t continue. That ended the main event 3:52 into the first round. Watch the finish here:

But that wasn’t the end of the craziness. Kongo’s friend and training partner and former UFC light heavyweight champ Quinton “Rampage” Jackson got into the Bellator cage and tried to start a brawl with Bader. Watch the video from multiple angles:

Here’s Ryan Bader from the Bellator 226 post-fight press conference explaining what happened.

”I was walking out and then there was this big fat guy where the gate opens up and he’s saying something like ‘You did that s**t on purpose.’” Bader said. “Or whispering or whatever. And then he’s trying to fight me. So I didn’t know what was going on. You know, I went through the whole debacle with the non-eye poke, the nose poke. Got a video too here in my pocket. He just comes at me, saying ‘F**k you’ and all that kind of stuff. It is what it is. Walk back into the middle of the cage and say ‘Let’s go then.’ He got held back by my dad, I think. And that was it.”

What do you think, Maniacs? Did the brawl make up for the rather anti-climactic end to Bader vs. Kongo?

Check out the rest of the less controversial and enjoyably violent Bellator 226 action in our full highlight and play-by-play post.