LOS ANGELES – Steve Mowry could be forgiven if he felt like he took one step forward, then two steps back. Mowry was in a heavyweight fight that could have had some legitimate title implications with Valentin Moldavsky this past August at Bellator 284, and less than a minute into the fight he took an eye poke he couldn’t recover from. The resulting no contest put any immediate hopes of climbing the heavyweight ladder on hold for Mowry, and after a bit of a low period, he used the incident to bolster his mental health game. “It is what you decide it is, and I’ve decided it’s just a thing that happened,” Mowry said at Thursday’s Bellator 290 media day. “It could’ve been much worse.