Mousasi denies Canada’s Rory MacDonald’s bid for second Bellator championship
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Gegard (The Dreamcatcher) Mousasi stopped Canadian Rory (The Red King) MacDonald in the second round in a battle of champions Saturday night at Bellator 206.
Referee Herb Dean stepped in at 3:23 of the second round with Mousasi punishing a bloody MacDonald on the ground. It was Mousasi’s eighth straight win.
The MMA fight was contested at 185 pounds so only Mousasi’s middleweight title was on the line at the SAP Center. MacDonald, a native of Kelowna, B.C., who fights out of Montreal, still holds Bellator’s welterweight crown (170 pounds).
Mousasi (45-6-2) was the aggressor in the first round, using his jab and leg kicks to attack MacDonald (20-5-0). Things went south in the second for the Canadian when he tried to take Mousasi down, only to find himself on the bottom.