{"id":194531,"date":"2016-05-18T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=194531"},"modified":"2016-05-18T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T18:09:00","slug":"luke-rockhold-reacts-fighting-michael-bisping-ufc-199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/luke-rockhold\/luke-rockhold-reacts-fighting-michael-bisping-ufc-199\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Rockhold reacts to fighting Michael Bisping at UFC 199"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday afternoon, news broke that former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman would <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chris-weidman\/chris-weidman-reportedly-out-of-ufc-199-due-to-injury\/\">no longer be able to compete<\/a> in his scheduled UFC 199 rematch against Luke Rockhold.  Weidman went on to explain that he <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chris-weidman\/chris-weidman-opens-up-on-injury-that-forced-him-out-of-ufc-199\/\">suffered an injury in training<\/a> that would result in surgery, sidelining him for 8-12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday morning it was announced that Michael Bisping would be stepping in on short notice to fight Rockhold for the middleweight championship, a rematch of their 2014 fight in which Rockhold submitted Bisping in the 2nd round.<\/p>\n<p>After the announcement of Bisping stepping in on short notice, Rockhold took to Twitter to comment on the situation:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m not fucken leavin, the show goes on. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ufc199?src=hash\">#ufc199<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pYEorupmng\">pic.twitter.com\/pYEorupmng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Luke Rockhold (@LukeRockhold) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LukeRockhold\/status\/732982425425338368\">May 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video | Jon Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[ooyala code=&#8221;1qMmozMzE6NWOp6aHfILqaMrfGzi9EBe&#8221; player_id=&#8221;bd214e34cfad476984102de4bf5e8da2&#8243; width=&#8221;1280&#8243; height=&#8221;1280&#8243; auto=&#8221;true&#8221; autoplay=&#8221;true&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday afternoon, news broke that former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman would no longer be able to compete in his scheduled UFC 199 rematch against Luke Rockhold. 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Wednesday morning it was announced that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":139244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10150],"tags":[],"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 reacts to fighting Michael Bisping at UFC 199 | 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\/mma-news\/luke-rockhold\/luke-rockhold-reacts-fighting-michael-bisping-ufc-199\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Luke Rockhold reacts to fighting Michael Bisping at UFC 199 | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tuesday afternoon, news broke that former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman would no longer be able to compete in his scheduled UFC 199 rematch against Luke Rockhold. 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