MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. -- Luke Rockhold sauntered out of a conference room at the Marriott Manhattan Beach on Friday morning. He flipped off his glasses, grabbed a piece of paper to sign and exhaled. The weight cut was over.
A nearby reporter asked the UFC middleweight champion what it was like weighing in earlier in the morning rather than the usual time of 4 p.m.
"F*cking great," Rockhold said.
For the first time at a UFC event, fighters were able to weigh-in beginning at 10 a.m. Friday. The athletes had a four-hour window to hit the scale at the fighter hotel, rather than waiting until the usual 4 p.