INGLEWOOD, Calif. — There was a time when Rory MacDonald was trying to be someone else other than himself.
Growing up in Canada, MacDonald idolized Georges St-Pierre, the former UFC welterweight champion and one of the greatest fighters of all time. MacDonald even moved from British Columbia to Montreal, in part to train at St-Pierre’s Tristar Gym.
Rather than being the first Rory MacDonald, MacDonald admits now that he was trying more to be GSP 2.0.
“I was looking up to him a lot at one point in my career,” MacDonald told MMA Fighting recently in a sit-down interview.