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History · 2015 · UFC 189: Mendes vs McGregor · Robbie Lawler vs Rory MacDonald
From the tape · 11 Jul 2015

Robbie Lawler vs Rory MacDonald

UFC 189: Mendes vs McGregor · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Robbie Lawler beat Rory MacDonald

Method
KO/TKO
Round
5 of 5
Clock
1:00
Welterweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · John McCarthy

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

RL
Red corner RobbieLawler“Ruthless”Kill Cliff FC · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
RM
Blue corner RoryMacDonald“Red King”Tristar Gym · Kelowna, British Columbia
Welterweight Title5 rounds11 Jul 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
30-16
Record
19-4
33
Age
−8 yr25
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
74″
Reach
+2″76″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+314
UFC bouts
11
+6%5/1050% of wins
Finishes
4/944% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Tristar Gym
San Diego, California
From
Kelowna, British Columbia
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Robbie Lawler9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 14BODY11%1 of 2LEGS11%1 of 1
Rory MacDonald11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 29BODY18%2 of 10LEGS18%2 of 2
9 of 17
Sig.
strikes
11 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Robbie Lawler20 sig landed
HEAD100%20 of 43BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Rory MacDonald22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 46BODY23%5 of 8LEGS5%1 of 2
20 of 43
Sig.
strikes
22 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 35:00 of action
Robbie Lawler15 sig landed
HEAD100%15 of 37BODY0%0 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Rory MacDonald26 sig landed
HEAD88%23 of 51BODY12%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 40
Sig.
strikes
26 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:08
Control
0:01
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 7Ground 0
Round 45:00 of action
Robbie Lawler15 sig landed
HEAD100%15 of 35BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Rory MacDonald25 sig landed
HEAD88%22 of 51BODY12%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 36
Sig.
strikes
25 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:01
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 8Ground 0
Round 51:00 of action⚡ 1 KD LawlerEnded 1:00
Robbie Lawler11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 20BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Rory MacDonald2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 12BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 20
Sig.
strikes
2 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Robbie Lawler

Round
5
Clock
1:00
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: John McCarthy.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Robbie Lawler

0.65takedowns / 15 min
0.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.77 / 15m
1.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.77 / 15m
64%
ACCURACY
47%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Rory MacDonald

1.77takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Robbie Lawler↓ −5.8pp
open 46.2%close 40.4%
Rory MacDonald↑ +5.8pp
open 53.8%close 59.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Robbie Lawler opened at 46.2% and closed at 40.4% (−5.8pp), with Rory MacDonald moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Robbie Lawler10014046.2%40.4%−5.8pp
Rory MacDonald-140-16053.8%59.6%+5.8pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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