Filed under: Bellator , News , Videos LOS ANGELES – Chael Sonnen has talked a big game about fighting heavyweights. He’s just never fought one. That’s about to change when Sonnen enters the Bellator MMA World Grand Prix, an eight-man heavyweight tournament to crown the promotion’s next champ in the big-man division. Sonnen (30-14-1 MMA, 1-1 BMMA) kicks things off with an opening-round fight against Quinton Jackson (37-12 MMA, 4-1 BMMA), a former UFC light heavyweight champion who now fights at heavyweight. “Rampage” claims to be in the neighborhood of 260 pounds heading into the fight, a big jump up as far as the bulk Sonnen is used to dealing with. The closest Sonnen has gotten to lifting that kind of bulk is old-school UFC brawler David “Tank” Abbott
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Chael Sonnen takes old-school, ‘Tank’ Abbott-like mentality into Bellator grand prix – MMA Junkie