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A trilogy matchup between two arch-rivals appears to be on the horizon. Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold told The MMA Hour on Monday that he’s in discussions with the UFC to do a trilogy match against his nemesis former UFC middlewe…
A trilogy matchup between two arch-rivals appears to be on the horizon. Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold told The MMA Hour on Monday that he’s in discussions with the UFC to do a trilogy match against his nemesis former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping, who recently said he was interested in the fight. No […]
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Legendary former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre made one of MMA’s legitimate feel-good moments when he came back from four years off to win the middleweight title from Michael Bisping at last November’s UFC 217 from New York. Questions arose about his chances fighting up a class he’d never competed in before, but St-Pierre answered […]
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Legendary former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre made one of MMA’s legitimate feel-good moments when he came back from four years off to win the middleweight title from Michael Bisping at last November’s UFC 217 from New York.
Questions arose about his chances fighting up a class he’d never competed in before, but St-Pierre answered those with a resounding display of striking and wrestling, perhaps fighting at a level even he had never attained despite being regarded as one of the finest mixed martial artists of all-time.
But that success came with a dire price, and he ultimately had to vacate the 185-pound title when he suffered a bout of colitis from the increased diet he ate in order to keep weight on at middleweight. So he vacated the title hardly a month after he won it, drawing some criticism that he only came back for an ‘easy fight’ in Bisping and never planned on defending the title.
He’s been quiet ever since, yet St-Pierre appeared on The MMA Hour today to discuss his fighting future with Ariel Helwani.
Noting that he could have kept the belt if he really wanted to, he instead chose to let the division move forward instead of costing his fellow athletes a chance to improve their standing:
“I could have kept the title for one year, walked around with and take the sponsors. And I could be in the spotlight, say I’m the champion. The truth is I don’t know, I knew I had a condition, I knew I would probably lose weight because I was forcing myself to eat like crazy; it’s not how I eat,
“I had a lot of water retention, not at my natural weight and it’s not a healthy way of living. The reason I vacated the title is because I did not want to put the division on hold. I didn’t want people to wait for me. Even though I could’ve done it, I didn’t want to be that guy. I have always been very vocal about fights, being for the fighter’s conditions and I didn’t want to be the guy who stalled the division. Because everyone’s trying to make money and a living. That’s why I vacated the title.”
While he won a classic bout in his return, his fighting future was thrust into unsure territory yet again, and that was only further clouded when he said he also didn’t defend the middleweight title because he didn’t know what weight he’d be fighting at when he returned.
In his eyes, it could be at 185 or 170 – or even down at 155 pounds:
“As far as if I will defend it or not, I don’t know where my weight will be when I will get back. Like, I don’t know if I will be 185, or 170, maybe even 155, you know?”
In doing so, he potentially confirmed he would return, something that Helwani asked him about him immediately.
St-Pierre said he would most likely return to fighting after his health improved:
“I think so, I think I will fight again. It just depends on my health condition and everything. It’s too soon to say now, but I feel much better now than what I did after my fight. I always prioritized my health over my performance. And I knew something was wrong with my body, and I don’t feel right in my own skin,”
If he does return, however, he wants it to be for a fight that elevates him even further into the public eye, no easy task based on his prior body of work. After so many high-profile bouts where he was the hunted, he now wants a fight where he has a lot to win as well:
“If I fight, it needs to be something that excites me, something that elevates me. The fight with Michael Bisping was a big risk, but he had the potential to elevate me as a fighter and my legacy,” said St-Pierre. “That’s why I took the fight, it was a great opportunity, a win-win opportunity. I could have lost and it could have been a disaster. But I was confident I put the work in and it would’ve been win-win. I had a lot to win, and a lot to lose. If I come back, there has to be a lot to win for me, not just a lot to lose.”
I’m no psychic, but the talk of a fight where he has ‘a lot to win’ after fighting a whos who of mixed martial arts talent for the past decade coupled with his hint at a move to lightweight could mean he wants one fight – the elusive payday against current UFC lightweight champ Conor McGregor.
McGregor’s tentatively set to come back against the winner of Tony Ferguson vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223, or maybe he’ll fight Floyd Mayweather in the Octagon, or perhaps he’ll even finish his oft-discussed trilogy with Nate Diaz, making his queue quite full for a man who doesn’t seem in a hurry to fight again.
St-Pierre will have to wait in line, but if he can get it, there’s not much doubt it could be the biggest fight in UFC history.
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Luke Rockhold and Michael Bisping have unfinished business. The two former UFC middleweight champions have a rivalry that dates back nearly four years. Rockhold got the best of Bisping in their first meeting when he submitted “The Count” in 2014 in Australia, but Bisping shocked the world when he knocked out Rockhold in the rematch […]
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Luke Rockhold and Michael Bisping have unfinished business.
The two former UFC middleweight champions have a rivalry that dates back nearly four years. Rockhold got the best of Bisping in their first meeting when he submitted “The Count” in 2014 in Australia, but Bisping shocked the world when he knocked out Rockhold in the rematch to steal the 185-pound title at UFC 199 in June 2016.
And now Rockhold, who’s coming off of a devastating stoppage loss to Yoel Romero last month in Perth, Australia, is seeking revenge over Bisping:
“You know that’s a fight that, if it’s on the table, I’m gonna have to put that at the front of the line before I do anything else,” Rockhold said on today’s edition of The MMA Hour. “If he can back up what he just said, I’ll be very willing to take that fight any where, any time.”
However, Rockhold has one catch regarding the potential trilogy bout between him and Bisping:
“This excites me very much,” Rockhold said.
“Let’s make it a little more intriguing,” he added “Let’s bring it to 205.”
Prior to his bout against Romero, Rockhold, who has always been a large middleweight, said that a move up to light heavyweight was in the cards. Bisping has also competed at 205 pounds in the past, although the majority of his career has taken place at middleweight.
As far as how realistic this idea is, Rockhold claimed that he isn’t the only one pursuing the fight:
“Why don’t we do this thing in style?” Rockhold said. “Let’s sign on the bottom line. … I know this is a fight the UFC is pursuing. So, we’ll see. We’ll see if Bisping can back up his mouth once again.”
Would you like to see these two former champions settle the score?
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Michael Bisping isn’t ready to let go of his feud with Luke Rockhold. It’s no secret that Bisping is close to making his exit from active mixed martial arts competition. Today (Feb. 28), Bisping has turned 39 years old. With time against hi…
Michael Bisping isn’t ready to let go of his feud with Luke Rockhold. It’s no secret that Bisping is close to making his exit from active mixed martial arts competition. Today (Feb. 28), Bisping has turned 39 years old. With time against him, “The Count” is looking for at least one more big fight before […]
Yoel Romero did the strangest thing after knocking out Luke Rockhold at UFC 221. He kissed his defeated foe on the lips moments after the referee called the fight off. Fight fans were at a loss over the kiss, but Romero revealed that Rockhold’s trash talk before the fight was the inspiration for the post-fight […]
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Yoel Romero did the strangest thing after knocking out Luke Rockhold at UFC 221.
He kissed his defeated foe on the lips moments after the referee called the fight off.
Fight fans were at a loss over the kiss, but Romero revealed that Rockhold’s trash talk before the fight was the inspiration for the post-fight loss (MMA Junkie):
“In my country, there’s a code. When you lend a hand to another person, you don’t backstab him. Never. If there’s a situation, and you don’t want to be in trouble, just keep away from it.”
“He was the second person who started talking, and then he actually (invited) me to hang out. When we were hanging out, he asked me, ‘Do you want to fight me?’ And I told him, ‘No, that’s not the question. Do you want to fight me?’ And he said, ‘No,’ so you don’t want to fight with me, I don’t fight you.
“If you don’t want to fight me, move to another division. Or when the UFC says, ‘Do you want to fight Yoel? (You say), ‘No, I don’t want to fight Yoel.’ Call (UFC President Dana (White) and say, ‘He’s my friend, and I won’t want to.
“But you know what? if you have to fight, you need to have respect. I fought Lyoto Machida; I have a great respect for Lyoto Machida. I fought Robert Whittaker; I have a great respect for Lyoto Machida. Because they were always professional. But then when you hang out and (invite) you (to take) a cup of water or fruit or something, and then start doing math. …”
Romero will likely rematch Robert Whittaker for the middleweight belt in the near future as Whittaker heals up from a nasty staph infection.
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Yoel Romero is still looking back on his latest win in the Octagon under the UFC banner. As seen in the main event of UFC 221 pay-per-view event at Perth Arena in Perth, Australia, Romero was able to score a knockout win over former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold. This fight was supposed to be […]
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Yoel Romero is still looking back on his latest win in the Octagon under the UFC banner.
As seen in the main event of UFC 221 pay-per-view event at Perth Arena in Perth, Australia, Romero was able to score a knockout win over former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold.
This fight was supposed to be for the interim title. However, that all changed once Romero missed weight. As a result of that, Rockhold could only win the interim title if he won the fight.
Instead of looking ahead to his upcoming title challenge of middleweight champion Robert Whittaker, he is looking into the past.
The title contender spoke with Ariel Helwani of The MMA Hour, and during his appearance on the radio show, he gave some insight into his beef with Rockhold.
It all started with his 2016 issue with USADA. If you recall, he failed an out-of-competition test in December 2015 that resulted in him being suspended for six months.
“You remember one day when you talked to me, I said I have only one list, a blacklist? He [was] on the blacklist,” Romero told Ariel Helwani (via MMA Fighting). “He knows why. He knows why. Because he talked a lot of (trash).
After USADA, when that happened, when I had this problem with USADA, he talked (trash). Before USADA, before, every time when he saw me, whether (in) Vegas or when the UFC made something like the (athlete) retreat, he’d say, ‘Hey, what’s up, my man? You want to go out with me? I need a party.’ I’d say, okay, come on, let’s go, no problem.”
“When I [was hanging out] with him, he was like a friend,” Romero continued. “He’d [put his arm around me] like this, ‘Yoel, what’s up?’ And every time, he asked me the big question. Every time, he asked me: ‘Hey Yoel, you want to fight with me?’ I’d say, ‘What?’ (He’d say,) ‘Yeah, so you want to fight?’ I’d say, ‘No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait. That’s not the question. The question is, do you want to fight me?’ He’d say, ‘No, no, no. I don’t want to fight with you.’ So I’d say, ‘Okay, so you don’t want to fight me and I don’t want to fight you? That’s it.’”
Romero also revealed what he was saying to Rockhold after he knocked him out.
“In this moment, I said, ‘Hey, Luke. I love you. I love you,” Romero said. “You remember the time when you were staying with me, hanging out, and you said, ‘Do you want to fight me?’ I said, ‘You remember? And you see what happened after USADA? You remember? I’m still here. I love you.’”
“He didn’t [say] anything because he knows. He knows.”
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