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Yoel Romero Remains One of the UFC's Scariest Ever with Brutal KO over Rockhold

Yoel Romero went to Australia and buried Luke Rockhold in the Outback.

The UFC 221 main event was a fight for the interim middleweight championship, a fake belt constructed out of thin air because the UFC has this new thing where they believe a pay-per-view must be headlined by a title fight. So we had Romero, who lost his last shot at the interim middleweight title last summer when he was beaten by Robert Whittaker. Whittaker was promoted to undisputed middleweight champion when the real undisputed champion, Georges St-Pierre, decided his foray to middleweight would be a brief one and, in a rare display of grace, vacated the championship, which meant Whittaker got a promotion.