Rory MacDonald was an absolute mess back in January after his Bellator welterweight title fight against Douglas Lima.
MacDonald won to capture the belt by unanimous decision, but he left the cage in Inglewood, Calif., with a grotesque, bulging injury to his shin and an eye that was completely swollen shut. After a war like that, most fighters would not mind a lengthy period of rest.
Not “The Red King.”
Bellator president Scott Coker told Luke Thomas on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that the two had a conversation less than a month after MacDonald’s win over Lima.