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Luke Rockhold vs. Chris Weidman II set for UFC 199 in June
Do you like immediate rematches? Then this UFC middleweight title fight between Luke Rockhold and Chris Weidman is for you!
UFC 194’s Fight of the Night was unquestionably the middleweight title fight between Chris Weidman (13-1) and Luke Rockhold (15-2). Weidman lost his undefeated record and his UFC belt to Rockhold, who stopped him after battering and bloodying him at the end of round 3 and into the 4th round. It looked like Yoel Romero was next in line to face Rockhold after his win over Jacare Souza earlier that night, but a drug test failure has knocked him out of the title picture for the time being. Vitor Belfort and Jacare are fighting each other on an FS1 card in Brazil on May 14th, so options for Rockhold were running low.
Lo and behold, UFC president Dana White, at Super Bowl media week, confirmed to Garbage Time‘s Katie Nolan that Rockhold will have an immediate rematch with Weidman in June.
So as the top 10 middleweight picture stands, you have:
Rockhold (c) vs. Weidman (#1) – June Jacare (#2) vs. Belfort (#3) – May Machida (#4) vs. Henderson (#14) – April Tim Kennedy (#5) – Inactive Bisping (#6) vs. Silva (#10) – February Robert Whittaker (#7) – No fight booked Mousasi (#8) vs. Leites (#9) – February
There’s no news on the specific June date and venue of UFC 199, and while this presumably will serve as the main event, Dana White did not confirm that it would headline the card, but we do know that it’s happening.
Do you like immediate rematches? Then this UFC middleweight title fight between Luke Rockhold and Chris Weidman is for you!
UFC 194’s Fight of the Night was unquestionably the middleweight title fight between Chris Weidman (13-1) and Luke Rockhold (15-2). Weidman lost his undefeated record and his UFC belt to Rockhold, who stopped him after battering and bloodying him at the end of round 3 and into the 4th round. It looked like Yoel Romero was next in line to face Rockhold after his win over Jacare Souza earlier that night, but a drug test failure has knocked him out of the title picture for the time being. Vitor Belfort and Jacare are fighting each other on an FS1 card in Brazil on May 14th, so options for Rockhold were running low.
Lo and behold, UFC president Dana White, at Super Bowl media week, confirmed to Garbage Time‘s Katie Nolan that Rockhold will have an immediate rematch with Weidman in June.
So as the top 10 middleweight picture stands, you have:
Rockhold (c) vs. Weidman (#1) – June Jacare (#2) vs. Belfort (#3) – May Machida (#4) vs. Henderson (#14) – April Tim Kennedy (#5) – Inactive Bisping (#6) vs. Silva (#10) – February Robert Whittaker (#7) – No fight booked Mousasi (#8) vs. Leites (#9) – February
There’s no news on the specific June date and venue of UFC 199, and while this presumably will serve as the main event, Dana White did not confirm that it would headline the card, but we do know that it’s happening.
