{"id":73691,"date":"2025-08-16T22:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73691\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T22:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:46:07","slug":"rory-macdonald-name-drops-the-one-opponent-who-could-end-his-mma-retirement-i-would-be-super-interested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73691\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory MacDonald name drops the one opponent who could end his MMA retirement: \u201cI would be super interested\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MacDonald contemplates MMA return<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I would probably,\u201d MacDonald said of a potential Lawler trilogy bout on the Overdogs podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot to disrespect Robbie, but if they did offer it, I would be super interested,\u201d MacDonald continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because of like the nostalgia and he beat me twice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Robbie. I respect him. He\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if anything, I would talk to him personally about it before,\u201d MacDonald said, if he were to rematch Lawler.<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/08\/15\/rory-macdonald-names-the-one-ufc-fight-that-could-bring-him-out-of-mma-retirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloody Elbow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some people may not be interested in seeing him come back. Alas, given MacDonald\u2019s legacy as an absolute warrior, it\u2019s hard to imagine it would be boring.<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe that we\u2019re going to see Rory MacDonald make his way back into mixed martial arts? If he does, who would you like to see him face? Let us know, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacDonald contemplates MMA return \u201cYeah, I would probably,\u201d MacDonald said of a potential Lawler trilogy bout on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-73691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}