Rory MacDonald

You're telling me that Islam has a better resume than Jens Pulver, Carlo Uno, Din Thomas, uh, Matt Serra, Gomi in his prime, Matt Hughes, Duane Ludwig, uh, Lyoto Machida.

Ever heard of him? Uh, Renzo Gracie, George St-Pierre, Matt Hughes, Jens Pulver again, Joe Stevenson in his prime, Sean Sherk in his prime, GSP in his prime, Kenny Florian in his prime, Diego Sanchez in his prime, Frankie Edgar twice, Matt Hughes again, John Fitch, Nick Diaz, Rory MacDonald, Frankie Edgar, Yair Rodriguez.

Come on, dude.

It's not even close.

A really, really, really good record, and a really good, um, a really timely kinda run [laughs] for Canadian MMA, I think, you know.

After, um, after GSP was gone and obviously Rory MacDonald maybe didn't become the star that everyone thought that he was going to become.

You know, I've, I talked to, you know, my, my colleague Ian O'Neill is based over in Canada.

I've talked to Aaron Bronsteter on this very channel about that before as well, and the, you know, the Canadian MMA just h- didn't really get the push on, uh, after.

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And correct me if I'm wrong, we had a lot of interest in the wrestling and UFC side.

I go- And I, and I was hoping for this, because Montreal was kind of a hotbed of MMA back in the day, Georges St-Pierre, Rory MacDonald.

Um, so, so I was hoping for that.

And never before have I had that much activity around my UFC value boxes.

Um, or sorry, this is a country that has done very well combat sports-wise over the last couple of decades here.

Um, so some guys moving up the ranks in boxing, obviously George St-Pierre, Rory MacDonald, and all of them in mixed martial arts as well, and the, the first real pioneer of that is George Chuvalo.

So, um, some sad news today as he passed away.

That's gonna do it for the show.