{"id":270173,"date":"2018-02-15T07:06:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=270173"},"modified":"2018-02-15T07:06:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:06:42","slug":"video-hear-yoel-romero-actually-said-post-fight-embrace-luke-rockhold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-hear-yoel-romero-actually-said-post-fight-embrace-luke-rockhold\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Hear what Yoel Romero actually said in his post-fight embrace with Luke Rockhold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dSm6CCA-3WU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Over the weekend, the UFC debuted in Perth, Western Australia with UFC 221. In the main event of this card, a fearsome Yoel Romero took out former champion Luke Rockhold with a brutal barrage of third-round punches.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the referee waved off the fight, Romero cornered Rockhold for a brief post-fight embrace \u2013 and a quick peck on the cheek that was promptly immortalized as an MMA meme.<\/p>\n<p>In the UFC 221 edition of The Thrill and The Agony, a series that goes behind the scenes of every big UFC fight card, we can hear what\u00a0 Romero said in this embrace with Rockhold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd don\u2019t forget, I love you,\u201d Romero can be heard telling his vanquished foe in the video, which can be viewed above. \u201cI love you, brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Romero&#8217;s intention was clearly a nice, sportsmanlike moment. Unfortunately. not everybody viewed Romero&#8217;s efforts as such.<\/p>\n<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping, for example, feels Romero <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/yoel-romero\/michael-bisping-not-impressed-yoel-romeros-post-ko-smooch-luke-rockhold\/\">would have been wise to hold off on this moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t take pleasure from seeing somebody knocked out like that, I really don\u2019t,\u201d Bisping said (h\/t<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanytt.com\/latest-news\/michael-bisping-sympathizes-luke-rockhold-i-love-you-moment-yoel-romero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MMANytt<\/a>). \u201cHe got knocked out and he just looked so devastated, absolutely crushed. Then, to make matters worse, Romero, the guy that just knocked him out, gets in his face, pins him up against the fence, has his arms over his shoulders like that so Rockhold literally can\u2019t go anywhere and he\u2019s professing his undying love for him \u2018I love you Luke, I love you.\u2019 I don\u2019t know what he was saying and he had his eyes shut and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean look at Rockhold there, he looks like he\u2019s f**king terrified, he really does. Romero has his eyes shut and he\u2019s giving him a kiss. Look at Romero there, he really looks like he\u2019s making love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know when I\u2019ve been knocked out you haven\u2019t got a clue what\u2019s going on. You haven\u2019t got a jar of f**king clues where your head is at and you have to piece it back together, and then all of a sudden you have the guy who has just knocked you out with his arms around you, up against the Octagon sexually assaulting you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of Yoel Romero&#8217;s post-fight exchange with Luke Rockhold?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 2\/15\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, the UFC debuted in Perth, Western Australia with UFC 221. In the main event of this card, a fearsome Yoel Romero took out former champion Luke Rockhold with a brutal barrage of third-round punches. 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