SAN JOSE, Calif. – Ilima-Lei Macfarlane didn’t get a chance to speak to Veta Arteaga after their Bellator 220 co-headliner was cut short by a gruesome gash on Arteaga’s forehead. However, right before the official announcement of Macfarlane’s third-round TKO win, the Bellator flyweight champion got a chance to say something in the challenger’s ear. “I did say, ‘You got the rematch, girl; let’s do it,’” Macfarlane told reporters, including MMA Junkie, after the DAZN-streamed bout at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. Macfarlane’s rematch offer, which she reiterated in her post-fight interview, made sense considering the circumstances; Macfarlane (10-0 MMA, 9-0 BMMA) was, after all, struggling against Arteaga (5-3 MMA, 4-3 BMMA) before the ever-anticlimactic doctor’s stoppage. But that didn’t make it any less generous.
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