Shortly after Rory MacDonald learned he had advanced in Bellator’s welterweight grand prix by virtue of a majority decision against Jon Fitch, he sounded like a man that was ready to step away from the sport.
“It’s hard to pull the trigger,” he said during a post-fight interview in the cage following the Bellator 220 main event. “I don’t have that killer instinct. It’s hard to explain. It takes a certain spirit to come in here and put a man through pain, and I don’t know if I have that same drive to hurt people anymore.