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Rory MacDonald says he won’t use GSP method of moving up in weight: ‘I think he learned a lesson’

Rory MacDonald won’t be taking a page from Georges St-Pierre’s book regarding moving up a weight class.

The Bellator welterweight champion told MMA Fighting in a recent interview that he did not think GSP went about his move up to middleweight to fight Michael Bisping correctly. MacDonald will be heading to middleweight to challenge Bellator champ Gegard Mousasi on Sept. 29 in San Jose, Calif.

“I disagreed with his approach to it from the very beginning,” MacDonald said. “I think he learned a lesson from it as well, so I think I have a good approach to it.