Jason MacDonald Retires from MMA
Sportsnet.ca announced on February 28 that Jason “The
Athlete” MacDonald has decided to call it quits in his MMA career. The fighter
is 37 years old and holds a career MMA record of 25-16. He has been fighting in
the UFC promotion since 2006.
Career
MacDonald is known for his Brazilian jiu-jitsu skills. His
last two fights were losses, mirrors of his performance when he first fought in
the UFC and managed to defeat his first two opponents. The fighter was very
well known as an excellent grappler and won both of his first matches via submissions.
He was fighting in the middleweight division of the UFC.
MacDonald was a favorite of fans, particularly among the
Canadian crowd, where he got his start fighting in promotions such as Punch and
Crunch, Northern Lights Out and MFC.
In his first UFC fight in 2006, he managed to choke Ed
Herman, who was predicted to win the fight, in the first round, getting him the
win. He took Chris Leben in his next match, also via submission.
The last two fights that MacDonald participated in didn’t go
well for the fighter. He got knocked out by Tom Lawlor in the first round of
their UFC 129 match up in 2011. Prior to that, he got submitted by punches by
Alan Belcher in 2001. His final fights in the UFC were also marred by an injury
he sustained during training that took him out of UFC 124, where he was
supposed to fight Rafael Natal.
Future
MacDonald owns a gym in Alberta, Canada, that gives
instruction in MMA and he is a CrossFit trainer. He is also the owner of the
Pure Fighting Championship, which has a page located at PureFighting.ca. He
currently appears on the SportsNet.Ca site as one of their weekly bloggers.
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