In the 2008 Brad Pitt film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the protagonist was born an old man and got younger and younger with each birthday. To hear American Top Team coach Kami Barzini tell it, the film might as well be about the UFC welterweight champion “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler.
“He gets younger and younger with every fight,” Barzini said. “In all my years coaching I’ve never seen anything like it. The man has been fighting for 14 years and he trains like a newbie. His work ethic is unreal. He’s an anomaly.”
Lawler, 33, is not the oldest current UFC champion, as he still sits behind Fabricio Werdum, Daniel Cormier and Holly Holm, but he is the senior member when it comes to UFC experience, having debuted in the promotion in 2002.