So if you want to start there and say any champion/Hall of Famer retiring gets one, then I’m fine with that. Not every former champion is one but all champions probably deserve a great exit, and any Hall of Famer certainly does. No one can really define it, but we know who the legends are in MMA. Sure, they can’t guarantee the win, but they can make reasonable bets and hope the pay off instead of hitting on 18 and hoping for the best.Īs for criteria, I don’t think you really need any.
I hope they realize how meaningful Lawler’s exit was and try to make that happen more often. Instead you get Frankie Edgar against some hungry young contender and sadness ensues. All of it was note-perfect, and that’s what has been so frustrating as an MMA fan in recent years: The UFC can do this. Everyone is glowing about both the matchmaking and the result, and the UFC’s handling of the whole thing - and rightfully so. What do you think would be the criteria? Hall of famers? Former champs? Do they want to be sure it’s a real retirement?- Yves the Hardcore Casual July 9, 2023Ĭoming out of UFC 290, my greatest hope is that the promotion will take a lesson from Lawler’s exit. I think the UFC should do Lawler-esque career highlights for most legendary retirements. That may not make him the GOAT, but it sure as hell counts for something. Probably better, but it doesn’t matter because there are not five fighters in history, at any weight class, more beloved than this man. Was he better or worse than Woodley? I dunno. Lawler’s career is so beyond traditional standards of ranking that it seems foolish to even try. In short, he’s the friggin’ best.Īs for ranking him, I don’t really care. He’s a guy who somehow won Fight of the Year three years in a row, against three different opponents (which is basically impossible), delivered one of the best feel-good moments in history by winning the UFC title years after everyone had given up on that dream, and then capped it all off with the best retirement in history. One of the very few fighters who is universally beloved by anyone who is a fan or competed in the sport and even more rare, a fighter that no part of you has to feel bad about supporting. Who is Robbie Lawler? He’s at worst the second-most exciting fighter of all-time. The rest of UFC 290 could have sucked and it would have been fine for that alone.Īs for the questions, they’re very simple.
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Everyone was thrilled with the outcome: The way it happened, and then the montage the UFC played for him that got even the stoic Lawler to crack into tears. Lawler is a guy who meant a whole hell of a lot to me and to countless other MMA fans, and on the heels of the Frankie Edgar and Shogun Rua retirements, I was desperately hoping this wouldn’t be another one.Īnd somehow it wasn’t! Instead it was the most triumphant, well-executed, delightful retirement in the history of the sport. Sports are, in general, cruel to their fading legends, but MMA feels particularly mean-spirited about it, because being unable to compete anymore means violent ends, not just sad exits. I mean this very seriously when I say it is one of the best things that has happened in my MMA fandom. We’re going to start with Robbie Lawler, because while other things may be “more important” in some respects, in 20 years I will look back and remember UFC 290 for Lawler’s retirement. Where would you rank Lawler among the six most recent undisputed champs (Condit, Hendricks, Lawler, Woodley, Kamaru, Leon)?- Zak Kitzler July 9, 2023 readers know who Lawler is, but if someone came up to you and asked "who's Robbie Lawler", what would you tell them?Ģ.
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