{"id":101539,"date":"2014-06-17T05:02:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=101539"},"modified":"2022-02-06T10:02:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T18:02:10","slug":"luke-rockhold-won-an-art-contest-with-a-bong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/luke-rockhold-won-an-art-contest-with-a-bong\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Rockhold Won An Art Contest With A Bong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/rockhold-bisping-is-going-to-pay-for-his-comments\/luke-rockhold-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87763\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Luke-Rockhold-PNG.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Luke Rockhold PNG\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Luke-Rockhold-PNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Luke-Rockhold-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Luke-Rockhold-PNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what did UFC Middleweight Luke Rockhold do before pursuing a life as a professional fighter? Pottery.  Kennedy explained his past in art to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/06\/how-fightersculptor-luke-rockhold-won-a-high-school-art-show-with-a-bong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I like to do it when I have time, but I\u2019m so busy,\u201d said Rockhold, who\u2019s awaiting his next booking after suffering a broken toe in his most recent fight. \u201cIt takes a long time, and I\u2019m very meticulous, and everything has got to be perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to lie \u2013 let\u2019s just put it out there \u2013 I made a bong,\u201d Rockhold said. \u201cI made a bong, and my ceramics teacher would always break all these bongs. Anybody who would try to fire a bong, when it got to the firing shelf, he would see it, and he would break it. He would break all these guys\u2019 bongs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sat there and made the most intricate (bong), like disguised it to the max, and you could not even understand what was going on. At the end, he saw it on the shelf, and then he actually took it and held it front of every one of his classes and said, \u2018If you put this much time and effort and you are this good, I will fire it for you.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then it went into the high school county art show, and I won the high school county art show.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pretty crazy right? It gets crazier! Rockhold went on to describe the bong:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s a head, this crazy alien head, and then another head is morphing out, and this guy\u2019s climbing out of it, and then there\u2019s another guy getting older, so it\u2019s kind of morphing, the whole thing,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe head is coming out the top, and there\u2019s this old guy at the top, and he\u2019s wrinkled and his mouth is open and the eyeball comes out the bottom. It\u2019s a pretty cool piece.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what did UFC Middleweight Luke Rockhold do before pursuing a life as a professional fighter? Pottery. Kennedy explained his past in art to MMAJunkie radio. &#8220;I like to do it when I have time, but I\u2019m so busy,\u201d said Rockhold, who\u2019s awaiting his next booking after suffering a broken toe in his most recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":87763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[8538,8537,9,8409,8539,11,778,15],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Luke Rockhold Won An Art Contest With A Bong | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/luke-rockhold-won-an-art-contest-with-a-bong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Luke Rockhold Won An Art Contest With A Bong | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So what did UFC Middleweight Luke Rockhold do before pursuing a life as a professional fighter? 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