Former UFC heavyweight champion and Pancrase openweight champion Josh Barnett has signed with Bellator MMA.
The long-time mixed martial arts veteran signed a contract for the company live on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show earlier this Monday, April 1st afternoon. “I just signed with Bellator on your show,” Barnett said to Helwani. “We will see who we can get first. Either way, there’s a lot of tender morsels over there in Bellator that I can sink my teeth into.” After nearly a three-year layoff from competition, Barnett will soon make his return to the cage.