somewhere else if I had the chance and/or desire? Maybe they would sign a big name? There were a few scenarios in play, some of them just wild ideas, others semiplausible possibilities—all of them completely hypothetical. I knew he was genuinely trying to figure something out, because one idea would dovetail into the next. Maybe I could hop into that welterweight tournament Bellator was planning, a kind of poetic homecoming tour for me, the original king of tournaments? The name Rory MacDonald, the popular former UFC fighter who was fighting in Bellator, kept popping up, too.
