Friday night at Bellator 222, there’s a cross-promotional title fight going down.
Rizin bantamweight champion Kyoji Horiguchi (27-2 MMA, 0-0 BMMA), a former UFC title challenger, returns Stateside to challenge Bellator champ Darrion Caldwell (12-2 MMA, 9-1 BMMA) for his belt.
It’s a rematch from this past December, when Caldwell went to Japan and unsuccessfully challenged Horiguchi for his Rizin title.
Cross-promotional fights have been talked about for years in MMA, and these days, not surprisingly most of the talk centers around UFC fighters and how they’d fare against Bellator’s best. It’s an ideas Bellator president Scott Coker said he thinks would work out well for his crew.
But the UFC’s longtime stance has been against cross-promotion, leaving such talk mere fantasy.
But as long as we’re entertaining fantastes, in our Daily Debate, we wondered which fight you’d most want to see if ever there was a UFC-Bellator crossover.
The results, via Twitter:
To hear the MMA Junkie Radio hosts discuss the topic, watch the video above.
And for more on Bellator 222, check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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