Darrion Caldwell Left Old Camp for Alliance MMA 2 Days After Upset Loss to Joe Taimanglo

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Not long after Joe Taimanglo ensnared the heavily favored Darrion Caldwell in a fight-ending guilltoine nine seconds into the third-round of their Bellator 159 encounter, “The Wolf” was already looking for a mulligan.“It’s something I wanted right after I fought. I ran out of the cage and was in the locker room,” Caldwell told Sherdog.com. “I’m like, ‘Where’s [matchmaker Rich Chou] at? Where’s [Bellator President Scott Coker] at? I need that back. it’s something that I really wanted.” Caldwell vs. Taimanglo was supposed to be a title eliminator bout, but that changed when the Taimanglo, the unlikely winner, missed weight one day prior. Instead, Joe Warren will face Eduardo Dantas for 135-pound gold at Bellator 166 on Friday, while the Caldwell-Taimanglo rematch will headline the Bellator 167 bill on Saturday. The defeat, the first of Caldwell’s pro MMA career, was an eye-opening experience for the former NCAA national champion wrestler from North Carolina State University. After …

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