Things kicked off last night at Bellator 226 after an anti-climatic main event between Ryan Bader and Cheick Kongo.
The fight was deemed a No Contest (NC) after Bader, the promotion’s reigning light heavyweight and heavyweight champion, landed an accidental eye poke in the first round.
That’s when Kongo’s longtime friend and teammate, Rampage Jackson, stormed the cage and tried to attack Bader. Rampage, the former UFC light heavyweight champ, believes Bader landed the eye poke intentionally.
Check out the video footage below.
Bader says Rampage was held back by his dad.
”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.