Last Saturday Rory MacDonald and Jake Ellenberger fought and did not live up to their hype. The two welterweight fighters received more boo’s than cheers following their co-main event which was billed as a potential title eliminator.

In the aftermath, MacDonald teammate, GSP took to Canada’s TSN to defend his pupil and support Rory’s game plan.

“He shouldn’t care about the critics. You don’t brawl with a brawler. It was up to Ellenberger to open up and take more risk because he was losing and he didn’t. Rory fought a great fight and even made it look relatively easy.”