A devastating first-round TKO over Vitor Belfort at UFC 198 earned Ronaldo Souza a shot at the UFC middleweight title, but the chance came sooner than he could take it.
Two days after beating "The Phenom" in Curitiba, "Jacare" went to the hospital to check a knee injury. He didn’t receive good news from his doctors Alexandre Campelo and Rickson Moraes, and was forced to turn down a shot at UFC champion Luke Rockhold when challenger Chris Weidman was pulled out of June 4’s UFC 199 due to a neck injury.