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UFC Exec Sounds Off On If Yoel Romero Missing Weight Will Affect Title Shot

Even though Yoel Romero wasn’t able to fight for the interim title, it appears that he will be able to do so for the actual middleweight title. There was a lot of drama a few days ago when Romero weighed in at 188.3 pounds for his interim title fight a…

Even though Yoel Romero wasn’t able to fight for the interim title, it appears that he will be able to do so for the actual middleweight title. There was a lot of drama a few days ago when Romero weighed in at 188.3 pounds for his interim title fight against former UFC middleweight champion Luke […]

Yoel Romero Reveals Why He Missed Weight Before UFC 221

Despite the fact that Yoel Romero had a rocky time coming into UFC 221, his hard work ended up paying off. As seen in the main event of Saturday’s 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 […]

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Despite the fact that Yoel Romero had a rocky time coming into UFC 221, his hard work ended up paying off.

As seen in the main event of Saturday’s 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 on Friday once Romero missed weight. As a result of that, Rockhold could only win the interim title if he won the fight.

Either way, this was a #1 contender’s fight to see who would challenge Robert Whittaker for the middleweight title next and that will be Romero.

Now that the fight is over, fight fans are still wondering why Romero missed weight. It should be noted that Romero has never missed weight before UFC 221.

So let’s dive into why Romero missed weight for the main event fight. He went on record by telling the media that he had a diet plan laid out for his originally scheduled fight, which would’ve been at UFC on FOX 28 in two weeks.

Once he decided that he would accept this fight with Rockhold, he claims that he had to change things and it “messed up a little bit for the weight cut.”

“Do you seriously think that if I would have been fighting in Orlando that i would have had this issue?” Romero said.

“I’m not necessarily sure what we did wrong,” Romero said (transcript courtesy of MMA Junkie). “We worked the same as we do for every week. We had a plan laid out and we got a call from UFC and we knew that we were only two pounds overweight, but do you seriously think if I would have been fighting in Orlando I would have had this issue?”

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Luke Rockhold Addresses Loss To Yoel Romero At UFC 221

Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold has addressed his most recent loss. The promotion originally announced that UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker would make his first defense against Rockhold at UFC 221. However, he was forced to wi…

Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold has addressed his most recent loss. The promotion originally announced that UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker would make his first defense against Rockhold at UFC 221. However, he was forced to withdraw from the fight due to an undisclosed injury. Thus, the reason the promotion booked an interim title […]

UFC 221 Reebok Fighter Payouts: Luke Rockhold Tops List

UFC 221 is in the books, and now it’s time for Reebok to pay the fighters their sponsorship money. UFC 221 took place on Saturday, February 10, 2018 at Perth Arena in Perth, Australia. The main card aired on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card aired on FOX Sports 1 at 8 […]

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UFC 221 is in the books, and now it’s time for Reebok to pay the fighters their sponsorship money.

UFC 221 took place on Saturday, February 10, 2018 at Perth Arena in Perth, Australia. The main card aired on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card aired on FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass, at 6:45 p.m. ET.

Luke Rockhold vs. Yoel Romero for the interim middleweight title served as the main event while Curtis Blaydes vs. Mark Hunt in a heavyweight bout served as the co-main event. Rounding out the five bout card was Cyril Asker vs. Tai Tuivasa in a heavyweight bout, Li Jingliang vs. Jake Matthews in a welterweight bout, and Tyson Pedro vs. Saparbek Safarov in a light heavyweight bout.

The full payouts include:

Yoel Romero: $10,000

def. Luke Rockhold: $30,000

Curtis Blaydes: $5,000

def. Mark Hunt: $15,000

Tai Tuivasa: $3,500

def. Cyril Asker: $5,000

Jake Matthews: $5,000

def. Li Jingliang: $5,000

Tyson Pedro: $5,000

def. Saparbek Safarov: $3,500

”Maestro” Dong Hyun Kim: $5,000

def. Damien Brown: $5,000

Israel Adesanya: $3,500

def. Rob Wilkinson: $3,500

Alex Volkanovski: $5,000

def. Jeremy Kennedy: $5,000

Jussier Formiga: $10,000

def. Ben Nguyen: $5,000

Ross Pearson: $20,000

def. Mizuto Hirota: $5,000

Jose Quinonez: $5,000

def. Teruto Ishihara: $5,000

Luke Jumeau: $3,500

def. Daichi Abe: $3,500

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Yoel Romero Unveils Serious Injury Suffered At UFC 221

Yoel Romero may have come away with a huge knockout victory over Luke Rockhold (watch highlights here) in the main event of last night’s (Sat., Feb. 10, 2018) UFC 221 from Perth Australia, but it wasn’t without some damage of his own. After the fight, which he won with a brutal third-round finish of the […]

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Yoel Romero may have come away with a huge knockout victory over Luke Rockhold (watch highlights here) in the main event of last night’s (Sat., Feb. 10, 2018) UFC 221 from Perth Australia, but it wasn’t without some damage of his own.

After the fight, which he won with a brutal third-round finish of the former champion, Romero discussed the injury he sustained in the fight with FOX Sports 1’s Megan Olivi.

According to “The Soldier of God,” he broke his leg after taking two hard kicks from Rockhold in the opening round:

“Yeah, so in the first round, I think I took two kicks and I’m pretty sure that it broke my leg.”

Romero felt he was well-prepared for the fight despite missing weight, noting that his cardio was on point after he faded in the later rounds of his previous fight with current champ Robert Whittaker.

He was in such good shape despite missing weight, he said, that he could have had an even better win with a few small changes:

“Oh, I felt really good. We trained really hard for this fight. We trained very good for this fight. We had 6-7 round sparrings; I had no worries whatsoever in terms of cardio. If we would have small, minor changes, we would have had a better result.”

Romero will now move on to presumably face Whittaker in a rematch for the title in his next bout, and indeed Dana White “confirmed” the bout after UFC 221, but this news certainly complicates that fight.

The saving grace may be the fact that Whittaker may not be able to fight for several months himself after recovering from several significant strange and concerning ailments.

After the two met up at last summer’s UFC 213 with Whittaker emerging victorious in a close, hard-fought fight, there’s nowhere else to go after Romero’s scary knockout over Rockhold, but injury issues and in Romero’s case, weight-cutting questions, still remain enough to cloud the UFC middleweight title picture for at least a couple more months.

Will it ever find a semblance of continuity?

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Yoel Romero Unveils Serious Injury Suffered At UFC 221

Yoel Romero may have come away with a huge knockout victory over Luke Rockhold (watch highlights here) in the main event of last night’s (Sat., Feb. 10, 2018) UFC 221 from Perth Australia, but it wasn’t without some damage of his own. After the fight, which he won with a brutal third-round finish of the […]

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Yoel Romero may have come away with a huge knockout victory over Luke Rockhold (watch highlights here) in the main event of last night’s (Sat., Feb. 10, 2018) UFC 221 from Perth Australia, but it wasn’t without some damage of his own.

After the fight, which he won with a brutal third-round finish of the former champion, Romero discussed the injury he sustained in the fight with FOX Sports 1’s Megan Olivi.

According to “The Soldier of God,” he broke his leg after taking two hard kicks from Rockhold in the opening round:

“Yeah, so in the first round, I think I took two kicks and I’m pretty sure that it broke my leg.”

Romero felt he was well-prepared for the fight despite missing weight, noting that his cardio was on point after he faded in the later rounds of his previous fight with current champ Robert Whittaker.

He was in such good shape despite missing weight, he said, that he could have had an even better win with a few small changes:

“Oh, I felt really good. We trained really hard for this fight. We trained very good for this fight. We had 6-7 round sparrings; I had no worries whatsoever in terms of cardio. If we would have small, minor changes, we would have had a better result.”

Romero will now move on to presumably face Whittaker in a rematch for the title in his next bout, and indeed Dana White “confirmed” the bout after UFC 221, but this news certainly complicates that fight.

The saving grace may be the fact that Whittaker may not be able to fight for several months himself after recovering from several significant strange and concerning ailments.

After the two met up at last summer’s UFC 213 with Whittaker emerging victorious in a close, hard-fought fight, there’s nowhere else to go after Romero’s scary knockout over Rockhold, but injury issues and in Romero’s case, weight-cutting questions, still remain enough to cloud the UFC middleweight title picture for at least a couple more months.

Will it ever find a semblance of continuity?

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