{"id":130304,"date":"2015-02-20T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=130304"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:48:45","slug":"gsp-reacts-rory-macdonalds-ufc-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/gsp-reacts-rory-macdonalds-ufc-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"GSP Reacts To Rory MacDonald&#8217;s UFC Title Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/gsp-reacts-rory-macdonalds-ufc-title-shot\/gsp-rory\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130305\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GSP-Rory.jpg\" alt=\"GSP Rory\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-130305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GSP-Rory.jpg 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GSP-Rory-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GSP-Rory-585x305.jpg 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GSP-Rory-390x203.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=130076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the UFC announced Rory MacDonald as the next title challenger to welterweight champion Robbie Lawler. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The significance of the bout, at least for MacDonald, is huge. The Canadian star has a chance to recapture the welterweight world championship recently held by his mentor, and training partner, Georges St-Pierre. <\/p>\n<p>GSP took to twitter when news broke with his reaction:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Yesterday was a big day for one of my friends who finally got his well-deserved title shot. Congrats Rory! Can&#39;t wait to see that fight!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Georges St-Pierre (@GeorgesStPierre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgesStPierre\/status\/568469693708804096\">February 19, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rory MacDonald vs. Robbie Lawler takes place on July 11 from Las Vegas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week the UFC announced Rory MacDonald as the next title challenger to welterweight champion Robbie Lawler. The significance of the bout, at least for MacDonald, is huge. The Canadian star has a chance to recapture the welterweight world championship recently held by his mentor, and training partner, Georges St-Pierre. GSP took to twitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":130305,"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>GSP Reacts To Rory MacDonald&#039;s UFC Title Shot | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Georges St-Pierre shares his reaction upon discovering his longtime training partner Rory MacDonald will be fighting for his ol... 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