Rockhold: I’m going to pick Weidman apart
Luke Rockhold: “It was heated, and what happened in the cage? I picked him apart like a little boy. And that’s what I’m going to do to [Chris Weidman].”
In his first UFC title fight, Luke Rockhold has been actively promoting the fight at press events and in interviews and his position has never wavered. Rockhold believes he has the toolset and is the man to not only beat Chris Weidman, but do so rather easily:
You saw what happened with Bisping; we built that thing up, Rockhold said. It was heated, and what happened went down in the cage? I picked him apart like a little boy. And that’s what I’m going to do to Weidman.
Weidman has so far called Rockhold insecure and accused him of faking confidence for a bout he expects to be one-sided. The way Rockhold sees it, the trash-talk is only going to get worse leading up to the fight. But that’s a good thing.
The closer you get, you start torturing yourself day in and day out, and you realize that this guy’s trying to take this all from you, he said. This guy’s making you get up out of bed when you’re beaten and broken and don’t want any more, and you’ve got to go train. This guy is training to take your livelihood and your dream. It definitely gets personal as it builds up.
It’s already started, and I’m telling you it’s going to escalate.
