Paul Daley is slated to welcome Rory MacDonald into the Bellator cage on May 19 at Bellator 179, but that wasn’t the first fight offer Daley received from Bellator officials.
Daley revealed this month on The MMA Hour that the organization initially offered him a match-up against fellow British welterweight Michael Page, however Daley declined the fight because he was, as he put it, “chasing the big dogs” of the division.
“Michael Page is doing what I was doing like 12 years ago,” Daley said on The MMA Hour.