The opening round of Saturday night’s Bellator welterweight grand prix between Rory MacDonald and Jon Fitch ended in an anticlimactic draw. This outcome led to the champion being noncommittal about his future, after admitting he’d been more hesitant as of late.
“God has really called me the last little while. He’s changed my spirit, changed my heart,” MacDonald said during his post-fight interview. “It takes a certain spirit to come in here and put a man through pain and stuff. I just don’t know if I have that same drive to hurt people anymore. I don’t know what it is.