Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold might think he’s done with MMA, at least for now, but he wanted to keep the competitive juices flowing. So he agreed to a 230-pound catchweight no-gi grappling match with up-and-comer Nick Rodriguez in the headliner of Polaris 12.
It didn’t go so well for Rockhold.
The two men didn’t exactly create magic over the course of the 15-minute bout. There was a lot of clinching and not a lot of action. Rockhold was cut by a clash of heads early, a relatively rare occurrence in grappling. But after asking for some vaseline for the cut, the bout continued.