{"id":87678,"date":"2014-02-25T18:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=87678"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:00:59","slug":"rory-macdonald-wants-the-welterweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/rory-macdonald-wants-the-welterweight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory MacDonald Wants The Welterweight Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufc-170-results-macdonald-survives-tough-round-1-earns-decision-win-against-maia\/rory-macdonald-wins-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87352\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-87352\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Rory-MacDonald-Wins-PNG-300x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Rory-MacDonald-Wins-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Rory-MacDonald-Wins-PNG-361x250.png 361w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Rory-MacDonald-Wins-PNG.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This past Saturday at UFC 170 UFC welterweight Rory MacDonald looked good in his unanimous decision win over the dangerous Demian Maia. This puts top the welterweight back in the win column after his loss to Robbie Lawler last year. Lawler will fight number one contender Johny Hendricks for the vacant welterweight title at UFC 171 and it seems MacDonald is already calling dibs on the winner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would like to fight the winner of hendricks and lawler <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\">@ufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danawhite\">@danawhite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rory MacDonald (@rory_macdonald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rory_macdonald\/statuses\/438191961250332672\">February 25, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Should the UFC give MacDonald the next shot, or should the winner of Carlos Condit vs Tyron Woodley get the next crack at the new welterweight champ, whoever that ends up being.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: <a href=\"staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/ryan-miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan C. Miller<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This past Saturday at UFC 170 UFC welterweight Rory MacDonald looked good in his unanimous decision win over the dangerous Demian Maia. This puts top the welterweight back in the win column after his loss to Robbie Lawler last year. Lawler will fight number one contender Johny Hendricks for the vacant welterweight title at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":87352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[189,7659,11,649,777,793,937,15,6319,6691,16],"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>Rory MacDonald Wants The Welterweight Title | 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\/rory-macdonald-wants-the-welterweight-title\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rory MacDonald Wants The Welterweight Title | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; This past Saturday at UFC 170 UFC welterweight Rory MacDonald looked good in his unanimous decision win over the dangerous Demian Maia. 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