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Luke Rockhold explains UFC comeback: I want to end career ‘on my own terms’

Luke Rockhold will return to the cage after a two-year hiatus to take on Sean Strickland at UFC 268, but what, if anything, does the former middleweight champion have left to prove?

Rockhold is coming off back-to-back knockout losses to Yoel Romero and Jan Blachowicz and admits he doesn’t want to end his career on a bad note.

The 36-year-old MMA veteran ‘wants to end this b-tch’ on his own terms and still believes he has what it takes to become champion.

“I think a lot of reasons. Ending it on my own terms, I think, is a big deal for me,” Rockhold told Ariel Helwani during a recent appearance on The MMA Hour (h/t Nicole Bosco of MMA News).