LAS VEGAS – When you’ve been in the MMA game as long as Robbie Lawler has, a lot of things probably are second nature.
Over a fighting career that lasted nearly a quarter-century as a pro, Lawler no doubt has sharpened plenty of his instincts. Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, sitting cageside as a guest of the UFC, the promotion for which he once was welterweight champion, Lawler has a suspicion he might have been asked there for an announcement.
“I had a feel for it. I just did,” Lawler said Saturday after his summer induction into the UFC Hall of Fame’s Modern Wing was announced. “I didn’t tell anybody I had a feel for it. I let my wife know. I’m like, ‘Hey …’ And then when I was sitting where I was sitting, I was (suspecting it). But still, when it happens, you’re like, ‘Oh – this is actually happening.”
