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Former UFC welterweight title challenger Rory MacDonald is headed to Bellator MMA, according to a report by FloCombat.com.MacDonald (18-4) completed the final fight of his previous UFC contract on June 18. He lost a unanimous decision to Stephen Thompson at UFC Fight Night.The Canadian welterweight has not announced a new deal and Bellator officials did not respond to requests for comment, but the UFC confirmed to ESPN.com it had waived its matching rights for MacDonald. The promotion also removed MacDonald from its rankings Wednesday.The 27-year-old MacDonald is the No. 4 ranked welterweight in the world, according to ESPN. He challenged Robbie Lawler for the UFCs 170-pound championship in July 2015. Lawler won via TKO in the fifth round of ESPNs 2015 Fight of the Year.Fighting out of Tristar MMA in Montreal, MacDonald holds wins against Nate Diaz, B.J. Penn, Demian Maia and current UFC champion Tyron Woodley. The current Bellator welterweight champion is Andrey Koreshkov (19-1). 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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- When Gerad Parker was 12 and growing up in tiny Louisa, Kentucky, just across a bridge from West Virginia, he began cutting his coaching teeth, giving basketball instructions to elementary school students in his backyard.On Sunday, the 35-year-old Parker was called into athletic director Mike Bobinskis office and told that fourth-year head coach Darrell Hazell had been fired. Bobinski asked his wide receivers coach to step in as interim head coach for the rest of the season.To be a head coach has been a dream and a goal, but I certainly wasnt ready for it right now, Parker said Tuesday. That part has been tough, but you prepare and take notes for that time you would get to this point.In 3 1/2 seasons under Hazell, Purdue was 9-33, including 3-24 in Big Ten games and 5-33 against FBS competition.Parkers third child was born on Sept. 7 and he said his challenge now is every bit like having a newborn. Parker, whose Boilermakers (3-3) will play at No. 8 Nebraska (6-0) on Saturday, played college football at Kentucky and coached at Kentucky, Tennessee-Martin and Marshall before coming to Purdue with Hazell for the 2013 season.He said his journey from being obsessed with basketball in Kentucky to coaching football in the Big Ten certainly has been unique. His first love was basketball.I was just a little bit of a weird guy as far as how I had to prepare and do things, because I wasnt overly gifted athletically, Parker said. So I had to be really fundamentally sound.A middle school coach made an impression on Parker and he began to think about coaching as a profession. He never intended to pursue football coaching until he began playing the sport in high school as a compromise with cclassmate Jason Michaels, now the quarterbacks coach for the NFLs Tennessee Titans.dddddddddddd.Being from a small town (population 2,467), I cut a deal with our high schools quarterback (Michaels), Parker said. If I would play football, he would play basketball. I think I knew I would be a better coach than I was a player.Parker will get to find out during the next six weeks, although he knows that Bobinski will begin a national search to find a replacement for Hazell. In the meantime, this is Parkers team, for better or for worse.Purdue ranks last in the Big Ten in total defense (446.3 yards a game) and last in rushing defense (264.3 yards), which is 124th among the 128 FBS teams.On Saturday, they will be playing a Nebraska team that ranks third in the Big Ten in total offense with 453.8 yards a game.Parker said there may be a few tweaks to the defensive scheme, but theres not a lot that can be changed in less than a week. In an effort to limit distractions, Parker is closing practices this week in a change from Hazells open-door policy. When the team travels to its three remaining road games, players no longer will be required to wear suits.Sophomore quarterback David Blough, who was intercepted five times in a September loss to Cincinnati and sacked six times in an Oct. 1 loss at Maryland, knows things must change during the final six games.Its frustrating being a part of it because we show how good we can be, said Blough, who threw five touchdown passes in Saturdays 49-35 homecoming loss to Iowa. Weve just got to get it going early and capitalize when we have chances. ' ' '