{"id":125557,"date":"2015-01-12T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T00:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=125557"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:56:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:56:45","slug":"rory-macdonald-heartbroken-announcement-lawler-hendricks-trilogy-bout3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/rory-macdonald-heartbroken-announcement-lawler-hendricks-trilogy-bout3\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory MacDonald “Heartbroken” After Announcement Of Lawler-Hendricks Trilogy Bout"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rory<\/a><\/p>\n

Going in to UFC 181: Lawler vs. Hendricks, it was believed Rory MacDonald would be fighting the winner of the bout for the UFC welterweight title.<\/p>\n

Things didn’t play out that way however.<\/p>\n

A split decision win that saw Robbie Lawler awarded the UFC welterweight championship was not decisive enough in the eyes of many, and as a result, the UFC announced that Johny Hendricks would get the next crack at the belt that was formerly his.<\/p>\n

Rory MacDonald was “heartbroken” to hear he was passed up for a title shot.<\/p>\n

“I was a little bit heartbroken, but it’s okay. Even when I first heard the news that I was promised I was going to get the next title shot, I was skeptical. You can’t always believe what you hear. Things change so often in this sport, you’d be a fool if you believed everything that came out. So I’m not surprised that it happened. But I was pretty sad about it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

While many people had different views on how they believe the bout should have been scored, Rory MacDonald believes Robbie Lawler won clearly enough that a trilogy match wasn’t warranted.<\/p>\n

“Honestly I didn’t even – I thought Robbie won the fight pretty clearly in my eyes. I didn’t see why they would want a third fight, at all. I figured, you know, they would definitely want me to fight Robbie after that fight. So it didn’t work out. It didn’t work out like I thought it would.”<\/p>\n

“I didn’t get [a reason]. They just said \u2018you’re not getting it.’ That’s it. So it was a bit of a waste of my time going [to Las Vegas], wasn’t it?”<\/em><\/p>\n

– via MMAFighting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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