Luke Rockhold plans on piecing up Chris Weidman when the 2 former UFC middleweight champions run it again below the International Combat League banner.
10 years after Rockhold TKO’d Weidman at UFC 194, the 2 are set to run it again someday this yr as a part of the GFL, a team-based MMA group that made waves with its first-ever reside draft in January. A slew of former UFC stars have been introduced to be a part of the promotion, together with Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua, Yoel Romero, Urijah Faber, Paige VanZant, Junior dos Santos, and Tony Ferguson.
Amongst them was Rockhold and Weidman, who declared himself for the GLF draft days after asserting his retirement from MMA in the course of the UFC 311 weigh-in present.
Talking about his long-awaited rematch with the ‘All American’ throughout an look on the JAXXON podcast with Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, Rockhold slammed Weidman’s final look contained in the Octagon and provided a little bit of prediction for the rematch.
“I just watched Chris versus Eric Anders’ last fight in the UFC, and Chris just doesn’t—he’s sloppier than ever. I mean, he still dropped Anders with a good shot, a good left. It was kind of surprising, but I don’t know… I’m going to piece him up.”
No official date has been introduced for Rockhold vs. Weidman, or any GFL for that matter.
Will Weidman avenge his decade-old loss to Luke Rockhold?
Rockhold’s victory over Weidman in 2015 snapped the latter’s 11-fight win streak and relieved him of his position because the UFC middleweight champion. ‘All American’ was by no means fairly the identical following the loss, dropping 4 of his subsequent six bouts earlier than exiting the UFC altogether.
Rockhold ended up dropping the middleweight title six months later to Michael Bisping at UFC 199. He bounced again with a win over David Department however got here up quick in his subsequent two outings and, like Weidman, exited the promotion.
