Lima vs MacDonald

Who won Lima vs MacDonald?

Douglas Lima beat Rory MacDonald by unanimous decision in their 5 round contest during the main event of Bellator 232, on Saturday 26th October 2019 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville.

The scorecards were announced in favor of the winner Douglas Lima.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 5 rounds in the Welterweight division, which meant the weight limit was 170 pounds (12.1 stone or 77.1 KG).

This contest was for the Bellator welterweight championship.

Lima vs MacDonald stats

Douglas Lima stepped into the octagon with an undefeated record of 0 wins, zero losses and 0 draws.

Rory MacDonald made his way to the cage with a record of 21 wins, 5 losses and 1 draw, 7 of those wins coming by knock out and 7 by submission.

Douglas Lima's Bellator record stood at 15-7-0, while Rory MacDonald's came in at 3-2-1.

The stats suggested MacDonald had a massive power advantage over Lima, boasting a 33% knock out percentage over Lima's 0%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested MacDonald had a massive advantage over Lima, boasting a 33% submission rate over Lima's 0%.

Douglas Lima was the older man by 2 years, at 36 years old.

Lima had a height advantage of 1 inch over MacDonald. Despite this, MacDonald had 2-inch reach advantage.

Lima's experience as a professional fighter was relatively equal to MacDonald's, having had 27 fewer fights, and made his debut in 2006, 8 months later than MacDonald, whose first professional fight was in 2005. He had fought 24 more professional rounds, 112 to MacDonald's 88.

Lima vs MacDonald form

Lima had beaten 2 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 1 of them, going to the judges once.

In his last fight before this contest, he had lost to Michael Page at Bellator London on 1st October 2021 by split decision in their 3 round contest at SSE Arena, London, England.

Previous to that, he had been beaten by Yaroslav Amosov at Bellator 260 on 11th June 2021 by unanimous decision in their Bellator Welterweight championship fight at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, United States.

Going into that contest, he had been defeated by Gegard Mousasi at Bellator 250 on 29th October 2020 by unanimous decision in their Bellator Middleweight championship fight at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville.

Before that, he had won against Rory MacDonald at Bellator 232 on 26th October 2019 by unanimous decision in their Bellator Welterweight championship fight at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville.

He had beaten Michael Page at Bellator 221 on 11th May 2019 by knockout in the 2nd round at Allstate Arena, Rosemont.

Activity check

Lima's last 5 fights had come over a period of 4 years, 11 months and 7 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 11 months and 26 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 20 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 4 rounds on average.

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