Let's make this birthday one to remember.

35 years old (Born on July 20, 1989)

Happy Birthday, Rory MacDonald! You're the only guy who can patiently calculate his way through a cage fight like it's a chess match—except your pawns are punches and kicks. Watching you calmly dismantle legends like BJ Penn and Nate Diaz was as satisfying as seeing someone solve a Rubik's Cube blindfolded...but with more bruises.

Here's hoping your birthday is just like one of your fights: well-rounded, strategic, and ending in victory (preferably over cake). May this year bring you even greater success—and fewer elbows to the face. Cheers to another round of calculated greatness inside (and outside) the octagon!