What made prime Rory MacDonald so good?

[Noel Wards]

I'm guessing from what people say about him.

Pretty good wrestling. Not GSP level. But one of the best in the division?

Good BJJ.

Quite good striking. In so far his length, height, and athleticism carried him. And with a real solid jab?

Tell me Sherdoggers. I just started following the sport 6 months ago.

 

[13Seconds]

Unreal focus as well. Tyron said something interesting in his last interview.

Something like: "I remember back when i fought Rory and how fight week was. I was so busy shooting the embedded, talk to all the different sponsors and alot of interviews on top of that. Meanwhile Rory was just in his hotel room getting ready for the fight. He didn't let anyone from the outside to come close. That's how i am right now leading up to the Jake Paul fight."

 

[Thepaintbucket]

He tossed Nate Diaz around like a sack of potatoes. Nate then decided 155 was better for him

Rory had good volume/pressure and combos from the outside. See Rory toying with Woodley against the cage

 

[TheSpider]

Extremely well rounded and great cardio

 

[15089371]

Not being so christian. Back then he was still a serial killer coming to take your health and collect bodies.

 

[rakeleaves]

Outside of a pre prime Woodley his best wins were never that great. He beat past prime and undersized Penn, borderline top10 Saffedeine, and Jake Ellenberger who turned out the be a flash in the pan. Never beat a solid top 5 fighter outside of maybe Woodley at the time, but I don't remember where he was ranked.

 

[dittohead84]

Was yet to have his beak smashed by a rejuvenated Lawler. He was good tho

 

[WHITEBELT JESUS]

It was the GSP effect. And accurate lightning fast punches from the outside.

 

[Marko Polo]

Unreal focus as well. Tyron said something interesting in his last interview.

Something like: "I remember back when i fought Rory and how fight week was. I was so busy shooting the embedded, talk to all the different sponsors and alot of interviews on top of that. Meanwhile Rory was just in his hotel room getting ready for the fight. He didn't let anyone from the outside to come close. That's how i am right now leading up to the Jake Paul fight."

Jake Bald is gonna made Rory look like Jim Carrey in me myself and Irene

 

[yekmurat]

He was one of the 1st complete MMA fighters out there,at that time bjj guys wrestlers or kickboxers/karate guys were turning into MMA but he started training MMA very young age

 

[Dan Torrance]

he didn't have that war with lawler yet.

 

[Ice Hotel]

One of the first well rounded fighters who could do everything vs a bunch of one dimensional fighters or fighters who only had one path to victory

 

[thinkandbeslim]

Big John with the WTF head scratch.....

 

[dildos]

I do find Rory was always a bit overrated here on sherdog but Rory trained with the goat so that helped him greatly.

 

[corrupted]

Geography. The gravity of how good it was to be at Tri Star for Peak GSP means that for the right guy, the Ridim will drag the improvements out of him. The guys that GSP and Firaz had coming in for his camps was insane.

 

[Shroud of turinabol]

Jake Bald is gonna made Rory look like Jim Carrey in me myself and Irene

 

[Marko Polo]

They should send this footage into space on a USB. Jim is a treasure

 

[yeguiza]

He was never that good

UFC did it´s best to sell his greatness though

 

[WHITEBELT JESUS]

Woodley face down asleep on the canvas is not going to be a good look for UFC.

 

[Azor]

Rory busting the Ali shuffle on BJ was just, comically insulting lol.