Dalton Rosta says Ahmed Samir Hefny ‘going to have a lot of problems’ at Bellator 231

Though both circumstances surrounding his pro MMA debut this past March versus Cody Vidal at Bellator 219 outside and inside the cage made for an unconventional experience, light-heavyweight Dalton Rosta was able to work through them and pick up a first round TKO victory.

As Rosta points out, he was originally training for what was probably going to be his final amateur bout before getting the call up to make his pro debut, and then the fight itself ended when Vidal suffered an injury just over a minute into the fight, ending it then and there.

“Leading up to that fight we changed a lot of things,” Rosta told MMAWeekly.com. “I went from sparring three-minute rounds, training for an amateur fight, to immediately just switching over to pro just like that. It was kind of out of nowhere. Once I got the call from Bellator I turned pro immediately after that.

“We had my fight at the end of March. The fight went well. I got the first round finish, although I didn’t get it the way I wanted to. After that I was signed to fight in May, and that didn’t work out, and that happened a couple times until now.”

While his pro turn happened on short notice, Rosta felt like he had made enough progress over the course of his amateur career that the jump wasn’t going to be an issue, and not much ended up changing in his training routine anyway for the move.

“I just felt like I had improved so much and was ready to make the jump anyway,” said Rosta. “It couldn’t have come at a better time.

“Once we started to switch over to the actual pro training, going from three minute rounds to five minute rounds were the only difference. In sparring throwing head kicks, throwing knees, that’s stuff we didn’t do as an amateur either. That was pretty much the only change. It was a little to get used to at first, but we got the ball rolling pretty quick and adjusted well.”

On Friday in Uncasville, Conn., Rosta (1-0) will look to pick up his second win of the year when he faces Ahmed Samir Hefny (1-1) in a preliminary 205-pound bout at Bellator 231.

This article first appeared at News – MMAWeekly.com

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