Former UFC middleweight champion, Luke Rockhold, saved his fight sports activities profession afloat after parting methods with Dana White and Co. by hooking up with fellow UFC veteran Mike Perry beneath the BKFC banner. Sadly, Rockhold’s lack of ability to make the required changes in his new area led to a painful loss in his bareknuckle boxing debut.
In addition to a mouthful of smashed tooth.
“Bareknuckle boxing isn’t a struggle,” Rockhold advised MMA Preventing. “I noticed, I’m not dropping my f*cking tooth with out utilizing every thing I’ve labored for my entire life. Individuals are f*cking dumb. That’s a dumbass sport. Metallic [ropes] that you simply simply hit, and so they throw you again into the brawl. There’s no strategy to gauge that distance, and it’s like who’s keen to lose their face first for f*cking nothing.”
Rockhold, 40, will as soon as once more surrender his benefits in kicking and grappling for a straight-up boxing match (with gloves) in opposition to former UFC middleweight Darren Until. They’ll co-headline the upcoming Misfits Boxing 22: “Ring of Thrones” pay-per-view (PPV) card on DAZN on Sat., Aug. 30, 2025 at AO Enviornment in Manchester, England.
The ex-Strikeforce champ insists “that is completely different.”
“It couldn’t be any worse than bareknuckle boxing,” Rockhold argued. “I’m fairly positive I hamstringed myself as exhausting as you may. That is completely different. I really feel like my boxing has come a great distance. Nobody has actually seen it, for me to place the footwear on, get within the ring, get that dance, get that motion. F*ck, I can do it. I can do it with the most effective of the sport, and I’m hurting folks left and proper on the fitness center. I don’t count on it to be any completely different.”
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