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Eduardo Dantas Says Darrion Caldwell’s Style Isn’t Fun to Watch

From the prospective of a fan, Eduardo Dantas isn’t impressed with Darrion Caldwell. Tonight (Oct. 6), Dantas will defend his Bellator bantamweight title against Caldwell inside the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The title bout is set to headline Bellator 184. Speaking with MMAFighting.com, “DuDu” said the challenger’s fighting styles leaves a lot to […]

From the prospective of a fan, Eduardo Dantas isn’t impressed with Darrion Caldwell. Tonight (Oct. 6), Dantas will defend his Bellator bantamweight title against Caldwell inside the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The title bout is set to headline Bellator 184. Speaking with MMAFighting.com, “DuDu” said the challenger’s fighting styles leaves a lot to […]

Bellator 184 Weigh-In Results

Bellator 184 is scheduled to take place on Friday, October 6, 2017 at the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The preliminary card will air online at 7:00 PM EST while the main card will air on Spike TV at 9:00 PM EST. Eduardo Dantas (c) vs. Darrion Caldwell for the bantamweight title will headline […]

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Bellator 184 is scheduled to take place on Friday, October 6, 2017 at the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The preliminary card will air online at 7:00 PM EST while the main card will air on Spike TV at 9:00 PM EST.

Eduardo Dantas (c) vs. Darrion Caldwell for the bantamweight title will headline this event while Daniel Straus vs. Emmanuel Sanchez in a featherweight bout will serve as the co-main event. Rounding out the four bout card is Pat Curran vs. John Macapa in a featherweight bout and Joe Taimanglo vs. Leandro Higo in a bantamweight bout.

Bellator officials held the weigh-ins for Bellator 184 on Thursday and you can watch them here:

Here are the weigh-in results:

MAIN CARD (Spike, 9 p.m. ET)

Champ Eduardo Dantas (134.5) vs. Darrion Caldwell (134.7) – for bantamweight title

Emmanuel Sanchez (145.2) vs. Daniel Straus (145.8)

Pat Curran (145.6) vs. John Teixeira (145.8)

Leandro Higo (135.2) vs. Joe Taimanglo (135.7)

PRELIMINARY CARD (Online, 7 p.m. ET)

Teagan Dooley (202) vs. DeMarcus Simmons (201.8)

Carrington Banks (155.3) vs. Steve Kozola (155.2)

L.J. Hermreck (144) vs. Westin Wilson (146)

Justin Patterson (170.1) vs. Chance Rencountre (170.1)

Sean Holden (157.4) vs. Shakir McKillip (159.6) – 160-pound catchweight

Manny Muro (154.6) vs. Emmanuel Rivera (154)

Ernest James (263.9) vs. Ray Jones (245.2)

Daniel Carey (149.8) vs. Kendall Carnahan (149.9)

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Eduardo Dantas-Darrion Caldwell Back on for Bellator 184 This October

Darrion Caldwell will get his shot at Eduardo Dantas and the Bellator bantamweight championship, as the two will headline Bellator 184 later this year. Officials confirmed the fight for Bellator 184 on October 6 from the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. Dantas (20-4) and Caldwell (10-1) were set to meet at Bellator 177 before […]

Darrion Caldwell will get his shot at Eduardo Dantas and the Bellator bantamweight championship, as the two will headline Bellator 184 later this year. Officials confirmed the fight for Bellator 184 on October 6 from the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. Dantas (20-4) and Caldwell (10-1) were set to meet at Bellator 177 before […]

Bellator 184 Main Event Revealed

Bellator MMA has revealed the main event for their upcoming Bellator 184 event that takes place in October. The promotion announced late Friday night that the main event would feature Bellator’s two-time bantamweight champion Eduardo Dantas (20-4) defending his belt against Darrion “The Wolf” Caldwell (10-1). If you recall, Dantas and Caldwell were scheduled to […]

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Bellator MMA has revealed the main event for their upcoming Bellator 184 event that takes place in October. The promotion announced late Friday night that the main event would feature Bellator’s two-time bantamweight champion Eduardo Dantas (20-4) defending his belt against Darrion “The Wolf” Caldwell (10-1).

If you recall, Dantas and Caldwell were scheduled to compete for the title at Bellator 177. However, when Caldwell was forced to withdraw due to injury, Dantas went on to defeat Leandro Higo.

Dantas, who is widely known as one of the most dynamic competitors in the division has won 13 of his last 15 bouts and is in the midst of his second stint as Bellator’s bantamweight world champion.

On the flip side, Caldwell is coming off a victory over Joe Taimanglo at Bellator 167 and will be competing for promotional gold for the first time in his career. Caldwell has collected five wins by way of first-round knockout or submission with the most notable win coming by a first-round finish over former multi-division champion Joe Warren.

The co-main event has also been announced for this show. It will see former featherweight titleholder Daniel Straus (24-7, 1 NC) competing against Emmanuel “El Matador” Sanchez (15-3).

Straus returns to action following his featherweight title bout against Patricio “Pitbull” at Bellator 178 this past April. On the flip side, Sanchez holds wins over Pat Curran, Georgi Karakhanyan, Justin Lawrence and Marcos Galvao en route to his meeting with Straus at Bellator 184.

Bellator 184 takes place on Friday, October 6th at WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville, Oklahoma. This marks the third Bellator event at the casino this year.

The event will be broadcast live and free on SPIKE at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT, while preliminary action will stream on Bellator.com and the Bellator Mobile App. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at the WinStar World Casino and Resort box office, as well as Ticketmaster and Bellator.com. Additional main and preliminary card bouts will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Eduardo Dantas: ‘I Will Run Through Darrion Caldwell’

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Bellator bantamweight champion Eduardo Dantas will be defending his title against Darrion Caldwell sometime in the near future. Caldwell earned the shot by avenging his only loss. He defeated Joe Taimanglo via unanimous decision last month.

“Dudu” told MMAFighting.com that he was eyeing a super fight with featherweight champion Daniel Straus. While Dantas gave Caldwell his due, he believes he’ll dominate the fight:

“I really wanted to fight Daniel next but Bellator promoters like Caldwell, so I already expected that he would get a title shot if he won, especially because he’s the only one left in the division. He deserves the title shot, so he’s still left so I can 100 percent dominate this division. I will run through him.”

Dantas has always competed as a bantamweight inside the Bellator cage. Should he defeat Caldwell and move up, the Brazilian bruiser doesn’t want to fight anyone before getting to the 145-pound champion:

“It doesn’t make any sense to me to go up and fight someone else. I have to go up and fight the champion. Bellator always asks me that. I only train with heavier guys in the gym, featherweights and lightweights, so I’d feel more comfortable at featherweight. Faster, stronger, more explosive. I’d do well in this division. It makes sense to have this super fight at 145, against the champion.”

Dantas won the bantamweight title back in April 2012. He successfully defended his title against Marcos Galvao and Anthony Leone. He lost his title when Joe Warren bested him by unanimous decision. Dantas won back the title when he beat Galvao for a second time. “Dudu” then went on to avenge his loss to Joe Warren last month in a majority decision.

When Dantas steps inside the cage with Caldwell, he will make his second title defense in his current run.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb-mhiHPZJ8

Bellator bantamweight champion Eduardo Dantas will be defending his title against Darrion Caldwell sometime in the near future. Caldwell earned the shot by avenging his only loss. He defeated Joe Taimanglo via unanimous decision last month.

“Dudu” told MMAFighting.com that he was eyeing a super fight with featherweight champion Daniel Straus. While Dantas gave Caldwell his due, he believes he’ll dominate the fight:

“I really wanted to fight Daniel next but Bellator promoters like Caldwell, so I already expected that he would get a title shot if he won, especially because he’s the only one left in the division. He deserves the title shot, so he’s still left so I can 100 percent dominate this division. I will run through him.”

Dantas has always competed as a bantamweight inside the Bellator cage. Should he defeat Caldwell and move up, the Brazilian bruiser doesn’t want to fight anyone before getting to the 145-pound champion:

“It doesn’t make any sense to me to go up and fight someone else. I have to go up and fight the champion. Bellator always asks me that. I only train with heavier guys in the gym, featherweights and lightweights, so I’d feel more comfortable at featherweight. Faster, stronger, more explosive. I’d do well in this division. It makes sense to have this super fight at 145, against the champion.”

Dantas won the bantamweight title back in April 2012. He successfully defended his title against Marcos Galvao and Anthony Leone. He lost his title when Joe Warren bested him by unanimous decision. Dantas won back the title when he beat Galvao for a second time. “Dudu” then went on to avenge his loss to Joe Warren last month in a majority decision.

When Dantas steps inside the cage with Caldwell, he will make his second title defense in his current run.

Bellator 167: Complete Highlights Including Caldwell-Taimanglo

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Bellator concluded a special doubleheader from Thackerville, Oklahoma this past Saturday night with Bellator 167. The main card aired live on Spike.

In the headline bout, Darrion Caldwe…

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Bellator concluded a special doubleheader from Thackerville, Oklahoma this past Saturday night with Bellator 167. The main card aired live on Spike.

In the headline bout, Darrion Caldwell earned his revenge on Joe Taimanglo, scoring a decision to become the top bantamweight contender.

The 2nd night of our back to back Bellator weekend of fights saw Darrion Caldwell seek revenge and a host of exciting scraps!