How Stephen Thompson Destroyed Rory MacDonald

For all those who watched UFC Fight Night Ottawa it was a great night of exciting fights and the undercard also delivered some good fights. However it seemed to have an anti-climactic ending, for the average casual fans the extreme lack of action meant a disappointing end to the card. Although some media outlets are saying that it was an exciting chess match... when was a chess match ever exciting? It wasn't a tactical battle it was just a lack of action, mostly on Rory MacDonald's part.

A tactical battle would've been Thompson springing in and out landing punches and kicks, Rory pressuring and landing his jab and back leg front kick, but it just wasn't. Thompson was hesitant which he eased up a little on the end but Rory was just bad almost the whole twenty five minutes. He didn't try and establish his jab, or anything really, he only had one serious attempt at a takedown. Rory now is going into free agency not only with a loss but what seemed like a reluctancy to fight, a huge change from the exciting title fight he had with Robbie Lawler.

Some of the difficulty Rory was having in landing hardly any strikes was due to Wonderboy's unorthodox points style movement. Although Wonderboy's style is very difficult to hit, it's not impossible and especially working with points kickboxing's, Glory and Bellator's best fighters Raymond Daniels who also fights in that style Rory has not excuse for not being able to hit him. However, some credit has to go to Thompson for his movement and doing what he was expected to do with his darting movements, lightening quick attacks and solid takedown defence although we didn't see much of it.

Thompson's movement managed to offset MacDonald's game plan and he simply managed to out point MacDonald, the only time that either of them looked to be in trouble was when Thompson caught MacDonald on the nose and broke it which sent Rory's equilibrium off but he recovered and Thompson didn't rush in to try and finish. Basically the reason Thompson won was because we got exactly what we thought we would from Thompson and nothing like we thought we would from MacDonald.

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