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On The Road Again
Bellator 282 “hit different” as the kids say.
First One Back
I was on the road for the first time since the pandemic started for full event coverage. I went and covered Bellator 282 for MyMMANews.com and not only were all the fights outstanding, the staff and venue felt better than the previous times I have been there to cover events.
Maybe it was because doing event coverage via Zoom from the comfort of my apartment got stale, but there is something about being present in the arena that I was definitely missing, so I was happy to get back to an event for coverage. Especially for Bellator 282 because the main event was for the middleweight title and the bantamweight Grand Prix bouts are going to make for exciting fights moving forward. If you haven’t checked out why I like Bellator’s 135-pound division so much, check out what I wrote here.
Aaron Jeffery: Mission Accomplished/Mission Started
One fighter that I talked through from the time COVID-19 started wrecking sports was Aaron Jeffery. I interviewed him a few times for Sherdog when he won and defended his middleweight CFFC titles. He had two chances on the Contender Series too where he fell short. But he wasn’t just fighting in the cage, he was fighting to keep chasing his dream of…
