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Kole Konrad retires from MMA
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09.12.2012 | 6:14 PM ET
http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Bellator-Heavyweight-Champion-Cole-Konrad-Retires-from-Mixed-Martial-Arts-45587
*Edit:
From the article:
Konrad has reportedly taken a job as a financial trader with a Minneapolis-based sales and marketing company and will specialize in milk products, according to TwinCities.com.
* Edited at 09.12.2012, 6:16 PM ET *
"I have not yet begun to defile myself. "
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09.12.2012 | 6:16 PM ET
"Anderson Silva, YOU ABSOLUTELY SUCK!"
09.12.2012 | 6:16 PM ET
"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved" – Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
09.12.2012 | 6:16 PM ET
"In the quiet words of the virgin Mary.. come again?"
09.12.2012 | 6:17 PM ET
"I bought a Bruno mars cd once - gunn4206"
09.12.2012 | 6:18 PM ET
"She be curvin all the locals, must like foreigns and this is when I had the Martin, I was just like Lawrence so wassup"
09.12.2012 | 6:19 PM ET
09.12.2012 | 6:20 PM ET
Better money in milk then in MMA?
"I have not yet begun to defile myself. "
09.12.2012 | 6:21 PM ET
"I have not yet begun to defile myself. "
09.12.2012 | 6:25 PM ET
Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani
As first reported by @guicruzzz, Big Nog vs. Dave Herman has been agreed to by both parties for 153. This will not be the main event.
^^^This should be a hell of a fight."I have not yet begun to defile myself. "
09.12.2012 | 7:01 PM ET
* Edited at 09.12.2012, 7:08 PM ET *
" I feel like Davy Crockett on the walls of the Alamo, swinging Old Betsy as the enemy swarmed in with bayonets. Sheesh. Listen you young punks....." - Bill Burgess
09.12.2012 | 7:28 PM ET
Unlike with the Lightweight and Welterweight tournaments, where you can tell Bellator pretty much sandbagged as they get through the final season on MTV2, they actually appeared to try with the Heavyweight tournament (other than leaving Vitaly Minakov out). So they have for the most part their best Heavyweights in this tourney.
Unfortunately, the problem there, and this will show just how far behind the UFC Bellator really is, if you do that, there's a 1 in 8 chance that Mike Wessel (who couldn't even get out of the 1st round in a Ultimate Fighter season that had one of the weakest casts in the shows history) becomes the Heavyweight champion in the 2nd biggest fight organization in the world...
As for Konrad, well good luck buddy. I'll give him credit for looking at his long-term life plans here. But yeah, for Bellator, this isn't good.
Although the silver lining here is that they have a good chance at having Brett Rogers, a bigger name and probably more marketable than Konrad was, as a champion, which likely doesn't happen if Konrad stays in MMA.
"I can't think of anything witty to say at the moment..."
09.12.2012 | 7:38 PM ET
"She be curvin all the locals, must like foreigns and this is when I had the Martin, I was just like Lawrence so wassup"
09.12.2012 | 7:48 PM ET
09.12.2012 | 7:53 PM ET
"3HUNNA"
09.12.2012 | 8:03 PM ET
"I fight em all. Men, women, children, ******** people, it doesn't matter. If you hit me, we're gonna fight. -Charles Bennett"
09.12.2012 | 8:06 PM ET
09.12.2012 | 8:08 PM ET
"I fight em all. Men, women, children, ******** people, it doesn't matter. If you hit me, we're gonna fight. -Charles Bennett"
09.12.2012 | 8:12 PM ET
09.12.2012 | 8:15 PM ET
"She be curvin all the locals, must like foreigns and this is when I had the Martin, I was just like Lawrence so wassup"