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Rory MacDonald on his renewed faith: ‘I was hungry for God’

Rory MacDonald’s young adult life was about fighting and only fighting, but he found a renewed sense of purpose over the last several years.

MacDonald dropped by the Pull No Punches podcast with longtime friend Kajan Johnson and Bloody Elbow’s Shakiel Mahjouri ahead of his headlining fight with Jon Fitch at Bellator 220 on DAZN. “I remember watching in the dressing room of your fight against Carlos Condit at UFC Vancouver,” Johnson told the Bellator welterweight champion. “You were reading your bible, you had all these different pages marked. You were very devout at that point.