Bellator 220 takes place Saturday at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. The main card streams on DAZN following prelims on MMA Junkie.
For more on Bellator 220, check out the Rumors section of the site.Rory MacDonald, Jon Fitch and Veta Arteaga are all in huge fights this weekend. The trio spoke to The Telegraph on the eve of Bellator 220 at the SAP Center in San Jose. MacDonald defends the Bellator welterweight crown against renowned wrestler Fitch. No easy task for the Canadian. Three years they were overlapping in the UFC, but within the Bellator fight league they finally touch 'em up.
“He’s going to be one of the better wrestlers I’ve ever faced, so it’s going to be interesting," MacDonald of Canada told The Telegraph. "I never got a fight offer for Jon in the UFC, we didn’t meet up until now. I was on my own path, growing as a fighter and developing in the UFC. Camp’s gone really good."
Of Fitch, there is only respect. "I think Jon has a lot of strengths. He’s durable, he’s ready to fight hard every time he’s in there. Obviously his strength is wrestling and his control. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t punch hard, he’s a grimey fighter. As far as what I want to prove, I want to go out there and dominate. I want to show my championship level.”
Victory would put MacDonald on the Madison Square Garden card on Friday, June 14. Six weeks hence. It would be against Neiman Gracie. “I definitely would like to be on the MSG card. It would be perfect. I wouldn’t mind that at all. It would be cool, but nothing more than that. I don’t go crazy about certain venues, but to fight in New York City would be pretty cool,” added MacDonald. My instinct is that MacDonald, pretty much at his peak, will have too much speed and movement, and will defeat Fitch, a hometown boy, and now in his 40s, from range. Bellator 220 ceremonial weigh-in video highlights, photo gallery from San JoseSAN JOSE, Calif. – Bellator 220 ceremonial fighter weigh-ins took place today, and MMA Junkie was on the scene for the proceedings.
In the main event, Rory MacDonald (20-5 MMA, 2-1 BMMA) defends his UFC welterweight championship against Jon Fitch (31-7-1 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) in a bout which doubles as a quarterfinal match in Bellator’s grand prix tournament. The co-feature is also a title bout, as Ilima-Lei Macfarlane (9-0 MMA, 8-0 BMMA) defends her flyweight crown against Veta Arteaga (5-2 MMA, 4-2 BMMA).
You can watch the face-offs for all of the main-card bouts in the video above, and also one for Macfarlane-Arteaga below. And don’t miss our photo gallery, as well.
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