Gegard Mousasi could do no wrong.
Mousasi retained his Bellator MMA middleweight championship and did so in overwhelming fashion, as he put away welterweight titleholder Rory MacDonald with a burst of punches and elbows from full mount in the second round of their Bellator 206 main event on Saturday at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. MacDonald, 29, bowed out of the champion-versus-champion superfight 3:23 into Round 2.
It became apparent from the start that MacDonald had bitten off far more than he could chew. Mousasi peppered him with blistering jabs -- he snapped the Canadian challenger’s head back on more than one occasion in the first round -- while incorporating stinging leg kicks, well-disguised left hooks and crisp right hands.