content: The loser, Rory MacDonald, almost died that night. His nose got broken early in the fight with a nasty left hand from a 1-2 combo, and for the next 15 minutes he kept getting socked in the nose. The referee said that at one point, he saw Rory exhale and a fucking mist of blood came from his mouth! Rory was aspirating a dangerous amount of blood (he was breathing it into his lungs as it drained down from his nose), and doctors have said there was a significant chance he could've died from this without medical attention.  Unfortunately, you can't put on a show like this without it affecting your body. Rory has fought many times since this fight, and he just isn't the same. I don't think he is punchy/punch drunk, I think his nose was so badly damaged in this fight that he can't take a shot to the nose as well. It's broken and bled badly in almost every fight since this one.