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Rory MacDonald Thwarts Neiman Gracie, Retains Welterweight Title at Bellator 222

The ride is over. @ChaelSonnen announces that he is retiring. pic.twitter.com/kNMQEIdIKq

— DAZN USA (@DAZN_USA) June 15, 2019

Rory MacDonald looked like his old self. It was an unfortunate development for Neiman Gracie.

The Tristar Gym cornerstone exposed the substantial divide between champion and challenger, as he won for the first time in more than a year and retained his Bellator MMA welterweight title with a unanimous decision over the previously unbeaten Gracie in the Bellator 222 headliner on Friday at Madison Square Garden in New York.