{"id":244883,"date":"2017-07-21T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=244883"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:27:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:27:55","slug":"luke-rockhold-ready-to-fight-waiting-on-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/luke-rockhold\/luke-rockhold-ready-to-fight-waiting-on-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Rockhold ready to fight, waiting on opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold has been absent from the Octagon for over a year now following his 1st round KO loss<\/a> at the hands of Michael Bisping at UFC 196, where he lost the UFC middleweight title.<\/p>\n

After recovering from an injury that forced him out of his UFC Melbourne scrap with Jacare Souza<\/a>, Rockhold all signs pointed to the former champ fighting Gegard Mousasi in a pivotal middleweight fight, however Mousasi went on to sign with Bellator MMA.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Luke<\/p>\n

Now, Rockhold is back training and ready to fight, but is left without an opponent. He spoke to Submission Radio<\/a> to discuss the situation:<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve been wanting to fight myself for some time, I just get delayed, week after week, month after month and I\u2019m pretty sick of it. The division, it\u2019s hard to find somebody that wants to fight these days, and so that\u2019s relevant I guess to some extent, and so now I think I\u2019m finally zeroed in and I\u2019m gonna make something happen here shortly. You know, back in, first it was June, it was Anderson. They offered the fight, I accepted the fight, they tried to make the fight. It was a short-notice fight, it was about five weeks for me and I was definitely not in shape but I was willing to go to Brazil and get it done, and Anderson, you know, copped out of that one. And then they switched their gears towards Gegard Mousasi. I was ready to make the fight happen July 8th but it wasn\u2019t \u2013 they were actually looking at Anderson and Gegard both for July 8th and 29th and Gegard obviously went in his direction. I don\u2019t know his thoughts but Anderson didn\u2019t want to fight and so I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just left in the wind and I\u2019m pretty sick of it. I need a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Luke anyone in the top ten will do as he’s sick of waiting \u201cI\u2019m not really happy to wait anymore, so we\u2019ll see. We\u2019ll see. There\u2019s probably a few guys and we might just have to settle and make something happen. So we are talking, we\u2019re in the midst of it, in the heat of it all right now. So we\u2019ll see. We\u2019ll see what comes to surface, but something will arise here shortly.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

Rockhold of course is likely going to be paying very close attention to this weekend’s main event scrap between Kelvin Gastelum and Chris Weidman, which could potentially produce his next opponent.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on BJPenn.com<\/a> on 7\/21\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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