Rory MacDonald wants to go after the Bellator middleweight championship after facing the winner of Douglas Lima vs. Lorenz Larkin for the 170-pound gold.
Why wait, 185-pound champion Rafael Carvalho asks?
Carvalho and MacDonald have already traded some words on social media, and the middleweight champion told MMA Fighting why he advises the Canadian to stay at 170 pounds.
"I own this division,” Carvalho told MMA Fighting. "For him to own the bus, he has to go through me, and that’s a difficult mission for him. He had a hard time fighting at welterweight in the other promotion, imagine trying to fight at middleweight?