Rory MacDonald hopes to make the most of his potential run as Bellator double champ by actually defending both titles. But of course, he has to win the second one first.
MacDonald, the Bellator welterweight champion, has an opportunity to become Bellator’s first two-division titleholder on Saturday at Bellator 206 when he faces middleweight champ Gegard Mousasi in a highly-anticipated superfight.
Beating Mousasi doesn’t make it a given that the Canadian would hold onto both titles for long. Conor McGregor was stripped of his featherweight title just weeks after winning the UFC lightweight championship in 2016, and current two-division UFC champ Daniel Cormier’s run at the top of 205 pounds might soon be coming to an end.