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Back in July 0f 2015, Canadian welterweight contender Rory MacDonald and then UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler co-authored one of the greatest fights in MMA history. In the end, Lawler would win this bloody battle, putting his foe down with a fifth-round volley. In the opinion of MacDonald, however, there should be an asterisk<\/a> attached to Lawler’s TKO victory. He believes the former champ was on performance enhancers at the time of their fight.<\/p>\n

MacDonald made this claim during a recent AMA on Reddit<\/a>, responding to a question from user\u00a0cczzrr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Do you think Robbie Lawler was on peds when you fought?” MacDonald was asked.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“I’m convinced he was,” he responded.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"fight<\/p>\n

This, of course, is not the first time MacDonald has hit Lawler with accusations of this kind. Back in late summer of 2016, he made similar claims on The MMA Hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cActually right before this conversation, something very interesting came up,\u201d he told host Ariel Helwani. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have to see where it goes, but it has something to do with my title fight with Robbie. There\u2019s some very interesting information that came about.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to speak out too loud about but it\u2019s something that really grabs my attention and I think a lot of people are going to be very interested to hear about this if it actually is true,\u201d MacDonald continued. \u201cI have to do my research, but it could be a very big thing and it pisses me right off to hear about it, to be honest. I feel robbed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSome [of Robbie\u2019s] test results came out four times higher than the limit for my fight with him. Like I said, it could be bullshit, but we have to look into it. I don\u2019t want to start pointing fingers or anything, but look at that team\u2019s history. It makes me very suspicious.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you think of these latest accusations from “The Red King” Rory MacDonald?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 9\/3\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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