It's official: Vitaly Minakov signs with Bellator

CHICAGO, Ill. (June 14, 2012) — The heavyweight additions continue for Bellator Fighting Championships as the promotion has added the undefeated Vitaly Minakov to the heavyweight ranks. Minakov joins Bellator fresh off a vicious knockout of Bellator veteran Eddie Sanchez, and is ready to take his talents stateside and compete with the world’s best fighters.

“Becoming a Bellator fighter means that all my hard work in the gym and training has all paid off,” Minakov said. “It means myself and my entire team were working in the right direction, and we did everything right.”

Undefeated at 8-0, the four-time World Sambo Champion boasts an outstanding ground game to complement a striking game that has earned the improving Minakov three knockout wins in his last four victories.

A member of the RusFighters Sports Club headed by Alexei Zhernakov, Minakov is set to make his Bellator debut shortly and already has his sights set on a future Bellator Heavyweight Tournament.

“With my current training regimen, I feel like I am fully prepared for a future Bellator Tournament,” Minakov said. “I want everyone to know that I’m not here just to ‘take part’ in a Bellator Tournament, but to win it all and become a Bellator Champion.”

“There has been tremendous buzz about Vitaly worldwide,” said Bellator Chairman & CEO Bjorn Rebney. “He has an incredible Sambo background and a very solid stand up game. His potential after just eight fights is very high and we are excited to have him joining Bellator.”

Source: http://www.bellator.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=23600&ATCLID=205438776

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Awesome. Great adition to their HW roster. A very exciting fighter with a different background.

Bellator once again doing the right move. Can't wait to see how they're HW and LHW will be until the end of next year.

If Ivanov could still fight it would make it even better, but well, let's see.


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Check out 0:08. Vitaly is the man responsible for introducing the Rock Bottom to MMA. That's badass.