On this week’s episode of MMA Fighting’s What the Heck, Mike Heck speaks with former three-time Bellator lightweight Michael Chandler (11:50) about his first-round finish of Ben Henderson in the main event of Bellator 243 this past Friday night, the pressure he felt heading into his final promotional fight, free agency, when we can expect a decision to be made, and having his finger on the pulse of all the speculation surround his next move.
Bellator women’s flyweight Valerie Loureda (43:38) recaps her second-round TKO win over Tara Graff at Bellator 243, talks dealing with her opponent’s constant trash talk since January, the difficult road she traveled to get to the fight itself, having a chip on her shoulder, the viral post-fight dance, and when she’d like to return.