49-year-old Antonio McKee returned to the cage for the first time in five years Saturday night at Bellator 228.
McKee, the father of Bellator rising star A.J. McKee, who also fought on the card, picked up a second-round TKO. He said after the fight that he could feel the effects of the layoff during the beginning of the fight.
“There was a little ring rust, but I started waking up a little bit,” McKee said to media at The Forum in Inglewood, California. “There’s nothing like being under the lights. You can practice all you want, you can train as hard as you want, there’s nothing like being in there.