{"id":194454,"date":"2016-05-17T16:32:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T23:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=194454"},"modified":"2016-05-17T16:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T23:39:23","slug":"uriah-hall-is-willing-to-step-up-and-fight-luke-rockhold-at-ufc-199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/uriah-hall\/uriah-hall-is-willing-to-step-up-and-fight-luke-rockhold-at-ufc-199\/","title":{"rendered":"Uriah Hall is willing to step up and fight Luke Rockhold at UFC 199"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News broke earlier today that former champ <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chris-weidman\/chris-weidman-reportedly-out-of-ufc-199-due-to-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Weidman had suffered an injury <\/a>and was forced to withdraw from his scheduled UFC 199 main event rematch with current UFC middleweight title holder Luke Rockhold.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the news broke, perennial contender <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/michael-bisping-reacts-to-chris-weidman-pulling-out-of-ufc-199\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Bisping offered to step up<\/a> and take the short-notice fight with Rockhold.<\/p>\n<p>Then just moments ago, dangerous striker Uriah Hall took to Twitter to ask for the short-notice fight with Luke. Here is what Hall had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LukeRockhold?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LukeRockhold<\/a> what do u say Luke fans bin singing our name together..we sure as hell don&#39;t like each other anyways so let&#39;s do this!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; U R I A H    H A L L (@UriahHallMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UriahHallMMA\/status\/732712156601323520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Uriah Hall was just in training camp for a scheduled UFC 198 bout with Anderson Silva, which ended up falling through due to an illness suffered by &#8220;The Spider&#8221;, so he should be primed and ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to see Hall and Rockhold go at it for the UFC&#8217;s middleweight title on June 4 in Los Angeles, or would you prefer to see a different opponent selected by UFC officials? 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