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Ryan Bader retained the Bellator MMA light heavyweight championship with a second-round stoppage of Linton Vassell on Nov. 3, 2017. The title has remained on ice ever since, owing to Bader’s pursuits in the 2018-19 Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix—a tournament he won to become the promotion’s first simultaneous two-division champion.
“The Ultimate Fighter” Season 8 winner will return to more familiar haunts and put his 205-pound crown on the line for the first time in nearly three years when he faces Vadim Nemkov in the Bellator 244 headliner on Friday at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.