Anyone who’s watched a lot of UFC events amid the pandemic in 2020 might remember Max Rohskopf. The 26-year-old lightweight competitor infamously quit on his stool as he was about to enter the third round of his fight against Austin Hubbard last June.
Life had been expectedly rough for Rohskopf in the succeeding months. As he told MMA Junkie in a recent interview, he’d gotten a lot of flak from both his training partners and strangers who would call him up just to give him a hard time.
“There were some people that I actually trained with that were saying stuff,” he said.