MMAJunkie radio<\/a> to discuss the bout.<\/p>\n\u201cEveryone loved that fight, and they should have,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cBut, everyone was concerned about me stopping the fight, either in the third round or the fourth round \u2013 stopping the fight with Robbie being hurt and Rory being the winner. Everybody has asked, \u2018How close were you to stopping the fight?\u2019 It\u2019s like no one understands. I was never really that concerned about Robbie Lawler in that fight. I was very concerned with Rory MacDonald. From about the fourth minute of the first round on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nSo what exactly was McCarthy looking for when he was watching MacDonald?<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I\u2019m seeing when I\u2019m watching Robbie and Rory \u2013 Rory is, in the first round, landing more punches, but they\u2019re not real hard,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cRobbie is not throwing a lot, but when he\u2019s landing shots they are thudding shots. They are heavy. And then he ends up breaking his nose in the first round. I watch Rory and he starts doing what we call aspirating blood.<\/p>\n\u201cAs he\u2019s breathing through his mouth, he sucks in more air as he gets more tired \u2013 now he comes into the second round and third round he gets a cut in his mouth. And he\u2019s got a cut that\u2019s bleeding into his mouth. In the third round he\u2019s really sucking a lot of air. When he goes after Robbie and he\u2019s hurting Robbie, that\u2019s great, but he\u2019s sucking these little droplets of blood that are now being aspirated. They\u2019re not going down into his stomach, they\u2019re going into his lungs and they\u2019re stopping what his lungs can do as far as dissipating that oxygen to his muscles. This is the thing that I\u2019m worried about. This is what I\u2019m watching.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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