Breaking: Gegard Mousasi vs. Rory MacDonald superfight for Bellator middleweight title set for September -- https://t.co/kAO1YWyjMp
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) June 21, 2018Newly-crowned Bellator MMA middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi will make his first title defense against welterweight king Rory MacDonald on Sept. 29 in San Jose, ESPN’s Ariel Helwani reported on Thursday.
Mousasi (44-6-2) recently won the middleweight title after finishing former champion Rafael Carvalho with first-round strikes at Bellator 200 last month, and called out his former Ultimate Fighting Championship defector immediately after claiming promotional gold.