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Bellator 138: Further down the rabbit hole

UFC middleweight Josh Samman digests the show from the other guys, as well as possible directions for the company's future.

"I'm still asking myself what I just watched. I doubt I am alone." -Former Bloody Elbow Editor-in-Chief Luke Thomas

Bellator 138 has come and gone, and in it’s wake we're left scratching our heads possible even more than before this whole thing happened. Scott Coker took us further away from mainstream MMA as we know it, and towards something much… stranger. They're offering a different product altogether at this point, and last night blurred the lines between sport and spectacle more than we’d seen before.