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Yoel Romero responds to former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold over the recent comments that he made towards his way. Romero was 9-1 in his past 10 prior to his latest bout at UFC 225. That’s very impressive for someone who is over the age of 40.

Romero missed weight for his rematch against UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker in the main event of June’s UFC 225 pay-per-view event from Chicago, Illinois. He originally weighed in at 186 pounds and had two hours to cut to make championship weight. However, his second attempt had him at 0.2 pounds overweight and ultimately saw him lose to the UFC champion by decision.

Before that, however, he destroyed former champion Luke Rockhold via KO at February’s UFC 221. That rivalry is still raging on due to some comments Rockhold recently made.

Romero Responds

Earlier this week, Rockhold called Romero a “cheap f*ck” as well as stating that he would entertain a second fight at light heavyweight. This is all if Romero would be interested in making that rematch happen.

Their History

“The Soldier of God” ended up knocking out Rockhold in the main event of the UFC 221 pay-per-view event. Although Romero didn’t clarify whether he would be interested in accepting this fight, he did at least give a response.

Statement

It should be noted that his manager, Malki Kawa, has gone on record in the past by stating that Romero is considering making a big weight class change heading into his next fight.

“Somebody remind Luke Rockhold the last time he look for me what happened.”

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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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