{"id":125363,"date":"2015-01-11T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=125363"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:56:59","slug":"lawler-need-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/lawler-need-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawler: &#8220;I Need A Rest&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Lawler.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Lawler.png\" alt=\"Lawler\" width=\"730\" height=\"512\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Lawler.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Lawler-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Lawler-570x400.png 570w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Lawler-356x250.png 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robbie Lawler had an extremely busy 2014.  After losing to Johny Hendricks in March for the vacant welterweight title, Lawler went on a 2-0 run, defeating Jake Ellenberger and Matt Brown, before finishing the year by getting his revenge, and defeating Johny Hendricks for the welterweight strap.<\/p>\n<p>Following his win over Hendricks, the UFC announced that his next bout would be a trilogy match against Hendricks, however no date has been set.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/01\/video-ufc-champ-robbie-lawler-on-trilogy-with-hendricks-time-off-vs-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a> to discuss when he will be ready to fight after an exhausting 2014.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m excited to get back to training, but I need a rest.  I had a tough year, a long year, a lot of fights in a row. Hopefully by February I\u2019ll be full force and training hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty laid back and grounded.  I\u2019m just moving forward acting like there\u2019s just another fight coming up.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robbie Lawler had an extremely busy 2014. After losing to Johny Hendricks in March for the vacant welterweight title, Lawler went on a 2-0 run, defeating Jake Ellenberger and Matt Brown, before finishing the year by getting his revenge, and defeating Johny Hendricks for the welterweight strap. Following his win over Hendricks, the UFC announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":125364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lawler: &quot;I Need A Rest&quot; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/lawler-need-rest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawler: &quot;I Need A Rest&quot; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robbie Lawler had an extremely busy 2014. 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