“To hear Gary Lineker at the end of Match of the Day say, ‘Stay around for Bellator...’ I think most people in MMA wouldn’t have expected that five or 10 years ago.”
Fans, fighters and promoters in mixed martial arts might not have believed that the sport would ever reach a platform as big as the BBC, especially this early in its history, which stretches back shy of 30 years. But David Green, head of Europe at Bellator, has long envisioned the moment.
