When Cal Ellenor revealed he had been forced to pull out of his main event bout with James Gallagher at Bellator Europe 4 in Dublin in September, things couldn’t have looked much worse for the Sunderland man’s future MMA prospects. Ellenor (8-2 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) had made an impressive start to life as a Bellator fighter by defeating former Cage Warriors flyweight champion Nathan Greyson via first-round submission at Bellator Europe 1 in February. But ahead of the biggest fight of his career, he was handed crushing news. His brain scans were flagged as a concern and sent for assessment by a neurologist, who diagnosed early-onset brain damage
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