LAS VEGAS — There was never anything flashy about Robbie Lawler. He was never going to make headlines at a news conference. Truth be told, he'd have skipped every news conference or interview he's ever done if he wasn't contractually required to do so.
He wasn't the most physically gifted fighter, or even among the Top 10, in MMA history. We could talk about all things he was not — he wasn't a physical freak of nature like Jon Jones or a superior athlete such as Georges St-Pierre or a genius in the cage like Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Through a split decision victory over Carlos Condit on Jan. 2, 2016, Lawler went 8-1 in that run, losing only in a close welterweight title fight to Johny Hendricks. In those nine bouts, he won Fight of the Night four times, had Fight of the Year three times and added a Knockout of the Night. For that nearly three-year span, few were better.
He was hardly introspective or eloquent Wednesday as he discussed his pending retirement at UFC 290 media day. He didn't even announce his own retirement; he let UFC president Dana White do that for him. In addition to the UFC, he competed in PRIDE, Strikeforce, the International Fight League and Elite XC. He fought for those promotions the way he did in the UFC, leaving a mark wherever he went.
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