Luke Rockhold would never return to professional combat at some point. Middleweight fighter sitting with his former teammate Daniel Cormier and talks about his worst moments in sports.
Former UFC champion Luke Rockhold is ready to return to the octagon after a long hiatus of two years. The fighter is back in his old gym and is confident of his comeback against UFC 277. Paul Costa. The middleweight legend sits down with teammate and friend Daniel Cormier to talk about his comeback and how long it took for the fighter to return to the octagon.
“I walked away from the game, you know” ‘ Luke said while talking to Cormier about his hiatus. Rockhold sat down with the former double champion for the final episode of DC Check-In. YouTube. “It’s getting old, it’s getting stale. The game is hard, you know. Getting up every day, going to the gym, you know what it’s like.”
Luke Rockhold suggests that his two-year hiatus was mainly due to his inability to do anything in his private life. Luke has had a lot of injuries lately and hasn’t had his best time in the octagon either. Rockhold’s last two games were devastating knockouts. yoel romero and Jan Blachowicz.
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“I needed time to go out and do something for my own life. Because you always survive a training camp and have another fight near the horizon.” said Luke Rockhold, speaking to Cormier. “You can’t go and live your life and do the things you want to go. You just need some time to live. It just hurts.”
Rockhold is a student at the American Academy of Kickboxing (AKA gym) in San Jose, California. He was one of the champions in the gym, which included Cain Velasquez, Daniel Cormier and Khabib Nurmagomedov. The middleweight fighter left the rest of his career behind as he remains the only active fighter among the four. Luke believes this is one of the reasons for his low moments in his career because the gym doesn’t have the same energy as four workouts together.
Luke returned to the American Kickboxing Academy after training for a time with Henri Hooft in Florida. Do you think this could trigger a change in the former middleweight champion’s career?
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