After some years on the sidelines former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold has expressed his intention to return to competition. A few months back he was booked to face Sean Strickland. However, that fell through after Rockhold suffered an injury.
Lately, Rockhold has announced that he wants to fight recent UFC middleweight title challenger Paulo Costa. Rockhold’s decision to target Costa hasn’t gone over well with one of his long-time friends and training partners.
Former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier spoke about his pal on his DC & RC podcast. During that show he expressed confusion as to why Rockhold, who hasn’t fought since being KO’d by Jan Blachowicz in 2019, would want to face someone like Costa right now.