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Lawler stopped MacDonald a minute into the fifth round at UFC 189 in Las Vegas in a savage brawl which has kept MacDonald out of the ring until Saturday, when he faces Thompson in the main event of a card televised from Ottawa on Fox Sports 1. Thompson never thought he'd be fighting MacDonald, his long-time friend, and he wasn't too happy about it when he first heard. “After what I'd done, I thought the title would be next,” Thompson said.