MacDonald wanted Condit, settled for Penn

[No More Sorrow]

So when the question was asked about whom he'd like to fight next, MacDonald had one guy on his radar.

"Carlos Condit," MacDonald told MMAjunkie.com Radio. "But he's busy right now. He's got a fight coming up, so I have to work my way up to that level (with someone else)."


Condit, of course, won the interim title in February with a victory over Nick Diaz. He's now on the sidelines awaiting a likely UFC 154 headliner with MacDonald's training partner: UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre.


Additionally, the UFC recently slotted top contenders Johny Hendricks and Martin Kampmann for a co-headliner at UFC 154.


That left MacDonald with few options.


"But then the UFC approached me about the fight with B.J.," said MacDonald, who now fights Sept. 22 at Toronto's Air Canada Centre in a pay-per-view co-headliner. "It sparked my interest, so I figured, 'Why not?'"

Condit-MacDonald was the fight i wanted to see as well, likely will happen once GSP beats Condit.

 

[Deezy]

I hate these stupid camps that say they won't fight their training partners. It's fucking Blue, you are not going to fight to the death out there, you are doing your job.

Penn should beat up Rory on the feet, heeere's hoping.

 

[Slim]

To me... if it was a Brazilian camp it'd make sense why they wouldn't fight each other. Its their culture and they are like family. But up here... fuck that. They just being little pansies oh I don't wanna fight him cause I train with him... no you don't wanna fight cause you know he'll beat your ass. Like that whole Jon Jones/Evans thing... Jones said he would... Evans wanted to be a little girl about it cause he knew that Jones would beat him and take the belt if it were to happen to that.

I dunno... GSP just needs to change weight class. There is nobody in welterweight that can come close.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Yeah it annoys me also, it's like you're employed by the UFC to fight the best competition in the world. It's especially annoying in Rory's case because he has so much potential to be one of the next big things in MMA and he's going around saying he'd rather retire than fight GSP?

I like the match up with Penn though, would be pretty awesome to see BJ win but i'm not so sure it's going to happen it's his last fight on his UFC contract also.